StarHub and MyRepublic Group Limited announced that MyRepublic is moving all of its 4G mobile subscribers onto the StarHub network, extending a 5G MVNO wholesale arrangement the two companies have run since January 2023, following an announcement made at the end of 2022. This effectively brings all of MyRepublic’s mobile customers under the StarHub umbrella.
MyRepublic’s mobile arm has run a split arrangement for years. Its 5G service sat on StarHub’s network under the wholesale deal struck in 2022. Its 4G service has been on M1’s network since October 2020, when the two companies announced an MVNO partnership that gave MyRepublic access to M1’s infrastructure and gave M1 a route to MyRepublic’s fibre broadband base.
That arrangement ends with this announcement. Every MyRepublic mobile customer, on either generation of network, will be a StarHub wholesale customer.
For StarHub, the gain is straightforward. For M1, currently running as a standalone business after Simba’s S$1.43 billion acquisition collapsed in May, losing an entire MVNO’s 4G base is an unwelcome development in a year that has already produced several.
Nikhil Eapen, StarHub’s chief executive, said:
“With this step, we further extend material lead in revenue market share as Singapore’s strong number two mobile operator. We have also taken another step toward leading the ongoing consolidation of Singapore’s telecommunications market.”
Matt Williams, StarHub’s chief of consumer business group and its chief executive designate, tied the announcement directly to another one. “Together with the migration of redONE subscribers to eight on the StarHub network, this builds greater scale across our business,” he said.
The reference needs unpacking for anyone who has not been following the MVNO market closely. redONE Mobile ceased operations in Singapore on 30 June 2026, six years after entering the market in 2019 with a proposition built around Malaysia-Singapore cross-border data. Its customers were steered towards eight, a rival MVNO that styles its name in lower case and, crucially, already runs on StarHub’s network. Subscribers were offered free 5G SIM cards, up to two months of free service and the ability to keep their numbers.
