--- Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 16:00:02 +0800 From: "John Tanner" <jtannerat_private> Reply-To: tannerat_private Organization: Telecom Asia To: declanat_private Subject: Re: Singapore Net filtering service Hi Declan, Some Net filtering news from Singapore that may be of interest to Politech readers. FYI, SingNet is the ISP arm of Singapore Telecom, the government-owned incumbent telco. Preferable to government mandates (which, of course, Singapore has plenty of anyway), but it'll be interesting to see if it works well enough for parents to get their money's worth. Regards, John C. Tanner Global Technology Editor Telecom Asia/Wireless Asia Advanstar Telecoms Group Tel: +852 2589 1328 Fax: +852 2559 7002 Email: tannerat_private URL: www.telecomasia.net ============= http://home.singtel.com/news/default.asp SingNet BroadBand First To Offer Filtering Service in Singapore Singapore, 10 April 2002 ? SingNet today announces the introduction of SingNet Broadband Filtering Service, the first of its kind in Singapore for broadband Internet access. The SingNet Broadband Filtering Service will block more than 500,000 undesirable sites. Mr Philip Wu, Director of Consumer Internet, said: "As more and more parents take up SingNet Broadband at home for their children's education and learning, we can understand the parents' concern and their need for a service that can help them protect their young and impressionable children from being exposed to undesirable or harmful content when they surf the Internet." SingNet Broadband Filtering Service can give parents that peace of mind as undesirable sites are filtered at SingNet servers. "We also understand that parents need a filtering feature that cannot be easily tampered with or deactivated by their children as they become more computer savvy. Unlike other PC-based filtering systems, which can be removed or deactivated by computer-smart kids, SingNet Broadband Filtering Service is, in a sense, "child-proof". The child cannot do anything to remove it," said Mr Wu. The server-based system also allows SingNet to easily and efficiently update its database of objectionable sites. This information is culled from a variety of sources including a company in the US whose core business is to track and consolidate a list of such sites for ISPs around the world. SingNet Broadband Filtering Service costs $3 per month and there is a one-time $10 registration fee, which is waived from now till 30 April 2002. During the promotion period, subscribers will also enjoy a supplementary email free of charge for a year. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sign this pro-therapeutic cloning petition: http://www.franklinsociety.org -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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