{"id":138130,"date":"2025-10-22T11:04:20","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T11:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/138130\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T11:04:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T11:04:20","slug":"singapore-offers-cheapest-10-gigabit-fibre-in-the-world-tarifica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/138130\/","title":{"rendered":"Singapore offers cheapest 10-gigabit fibre in the world: Tarifica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The city-state offers the internet speed at $22 per month, compared to $195 in the US.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ten gigabit fibre <a href=\"https:\/\/sbr.com.sg\/telecom-internet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener dofollow\">internet<\/a> is more affordable in Singapore, whilst in the United States it costs four to seven times more per gigabit, research showed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSingaporean consumers can purchase 10 gigabit service for as little as $22 per month, while comparable U.S. offerings can cost up to $195 per month,\u201d Tarifica said in its Data Dive report. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn practical terms, many American households pay several times more for a fraction of the speed,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n<p>Singapore\u2019s providers SIMBA, M1, StarHub, and <a href=\"https:\/\/sbr.com.sg\/company\/singtel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener dofollow\">Singtel<\/a> offer 10 gigabit plans between $22 and $65 per month, whilst prices from U.S. providers range from $100 to $195 for similar or slower tiers, which is \u201cfour to seven times more per gigabit\u201d compared to the Singaporean market.<\/p>\n<p>Tarifica credited the lower rates to Singapore\u2019s wholesale open-access government policy that requires every internet service provider to lease capacity from the same fibre network on identical terms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis has produced a highly competitive retail market where providers differentiate on price, service quality, and customer experience,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p>In the United States, operators own both the infrastructure and the retail relationship in most local markets, according to Tarifica.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause many households have only one or two fixed-line options, competition is limited. Providers are able to position multi-gigabit service as a premium tier rather than a mainstream offer,\u201d it said.\u00a0<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The city-state offers the internet speed at $22 per month, compared to $195 in the US. Ten gigabit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138131,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[259],"tags":[18,19,285,17,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-138130","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-internet","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-internet","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-technology"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}