During 10 years, Singtel used to have monopoly on Singapore Mobile Communication. From 1997, the market welcomed M1 and StarHub in 2000. As a result, consumers were able to have more choices, more plans, better discount.

However, Consumers had to pay a surcharge fee when switching operators. The new regulation will allow a full mobile portability from this coming June.

Hopefully, similar measures will continue to benefit the consumer over years. In Europe, such a measure already exit for more than 5 years and the regulation continue to evolve to reduce the operator power and monopoly to allow more transparencies in phone bills.