Desperate Measures

Well, it seems like the telco battle has somehow effected Starhub. I have so far received two offers from Starhub to sign a new contract with them. The first offer was made before the announcement of the winner of the broadcast rights; seems like Starhub already knew the outcome. Then, it was offering me a free residential phone line for at least a year. I was tempted and took up the offer but man propose, god dispose. My current residential phone line is under my father's name and my brother then was using Singnet broadband and had a contract.

The second offer came recently. Starhub offer me a free internet modem and subscription + a free SCV channel for one year. Again, i was tempted and took up the offer. The customer officer then told me that the modem will be send to me on the following saturday. However, i had second thought after hanging up the phone and the following day, i called up the customer service to cancel the offer. The customer whom i spoke to told me he will revert my request to the sales officer concerned. As you all would have guessed it, the communication breaks down and the modem was send to me. I briefed the delivery guy and subsequently rejected the offer.

The reason for rejecting the offer ? Well, it's definitely too early to commit myself and the offer doesn't seems tempting enough. The new broadcast rights start in Aug 2010 and i believe the offer from Starhub will get better as the dateline draws nearer. I will just wait and see. No harm done even if i don' sign a new contract. The ball is in my court........