Several StarHub users unable to watch TV, EPL matches due to problems logging in

The Straits Times01-21

SINGAPORE - Several StarHub users said they faced a host of log-in issues late on Jan 20, which meant they could not access the telco’s TV services. Speaking to The Straits Times, one user said she ...

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Then, when I finally got through, I was told there was an overall problem.”\n“So we didn’t bother to try again after we were told it was an overall issue.”\n\n\n\n\nMs Lim added that she asked the StarHub representative if EPL subscribers would be compensated, but he was unable to provide an answer.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\nA screengrab from monitoring site Downdetector taken on Jan 21, 4.30pm showing StarHub outage reports.\n\n\n\n \n\n\nReports of outages on monitoring site Downdetector reached a peak of 180 reports at 10.53pm on Jan 20 before easing to about six reports at 1.23am.\nHowever, the site registered another small spike of about 19 reports of outages at 1.53am, with about 10 reports at 2.53am before stopping at about 3.08am.\nThe Downdetector portal said it “monitors and analyses signals from platforms in real-time to automatically detect incidents and service disruptions in their very early stages.”\nOther StarHub users who faced similar problems flooded a StarHub Facebook post with complaints about not being able to log in to their StarHub TV accounts through their TV boxes and apps.\nOn Facebook, user Zack Lim on Jan 21 at 1.29am said: “Wasted 30 minutes of my life reconnecting all the hardware, restarting, trying to log in, again and again. 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