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Type
  
Private Company

Headquarters
  
Singapore

CEO
  
Malcolm Rodrigues (2011–)

Number of employees
  
1,500

Industry
  
Telecommunications

Website
  
myrepublic.com.sg

Founded
  
2011


Area served
  
Singapore, New Zealand, Indonesia, Australia

Motto
  
Frustration-free internet access and broadband-based services for everyone

Profiles

MyRepublic Limited, is an internet service provider in Singapore, New Zealand, Indonesia, and Australia. It is the fourth broadband service provider in Singapore.

Contents

MyRepublic was founded in 2011 by Malcolm Rodrigues, a former Vice President of StarHub International and Wholesale; KC Lai, a former StarHub Senior VP of Consumer Sales; and Greg Mittman, previously a lead of Alcatel-Lucent's National Broadband Network Team.

According to International Data Corporation (IDC) as of October 2014, MyRepublic had a 5% share of the Singapore broadband market, as compared to Singtel (41%), StarHub (32%) and M1 Limited (18%).

On 12 October 2014, MyRepublic launched its free 3-month fibre broadband trial in New Zealand.

Installing singapore s myrepublic fiber optic in an indonesian home


Internet services

In 2011, MyRepublic launched its fibre broadband 100 Mbps no-frills plan in Singapore.

In 2014, MyRepublic launched its services in the New Zealand market, making effort to provide fibre services of at least 100 Mbps to the residential and business sector with no data limits.

As of 2015, MyRepublic offers internet speeds of 200 Mbps – 1 Gbps to residential customers and 100 Mbps – 1 Gbps to corporate customers in Singapore.

In November 2016, MyRepublic launched in Australia with an offer of unlimited broadband at up to 100Mbps to residential addresses.

History

In February 2012, StarHub entered into a dispute with MyRepublic, after MyRepublic claimed that StarHub was discouraging its consumers to move to the Next-Gen NBN.

In 2013 MyRepublic introduced business plans in Singapore.

In 2014 MyRepublic raised $24 million in funding from Sunshine Network and $10 million from French billionaire Xavier Niel

In 2015 Ex-P1 CEO Michael Lai joins Singapore’s upstart telco MyRepublic Also in 2015 MyRepublic launched fibre service in Indonesia

On November 15, 2016, MyRepublic began offering service to Australia.

References

MyRepublic Wikipedia