Singtel, StarHub, M1, SIMBA — one answer
What Pluto TV reads from a Singapore line
Every ordinary line in Singapore hands your devices a Singapore public address, and that address is the first thing Pluto TV reads. How fast the line is makes no difference to what it says.
| How you connect | Who provides it | What Pluto TV reads |
|---|
| Fibre broadband at home | Singtel, StarHub, M1 and smaller providers | A Singapore address, where Pluto TV has no service |
| 4G or 5G mobile data, or a laptop tethered to a phone | Singtel, StarHub, M1, SIMBA and the brands that use their networks | A Singapore address |
| Wi-Fi at work, on campus, in a condo or a hotel | The employer, university, building or hotel | A Singapore address — and the network may stop the kind of connection USip uses, so a failure there says more about the building than about Pluto TV |
| Any of the above, with USip connected | USip, over your existing line | One ordinary U.S. household address, which Pluto TV can still refuse |
Singapore is heavily connected. IMDA’s figures for August 2024, the newest month we could read in full on its site, count 9,795,900 mobile subscriptions — 165.5 for every 100 people — and about 2.15 million of them were on 5G. There were 1,461,900 residential wired broadband subscriptions, which IMDA puts at 93.5% of households, and fibre has all but replaced copper: 1,595,100 fibre subscriptions against 200 on copper DSL.
One technical point decides more of these checks than speed does. Many networks give a device two public addresses: the familiar IPv4 one and a newer IPv6 one. If your U.S. connection carries only IPv4, a browser can still reach some sites over IPv6 — from your Singapore address. That is why the first step of the check reads both lines on an address checker.
IMDA’s tables give totals rather than each provider’s share, so we list providers without ranking them. Its statistics page also lists releases for 2025, which we could not open; the figures above come from its release for July to December 2024, last updated on 8 November 2024.
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