Announced last week, StarHub launches ‘Home Zone’ 3G femtocell service in Singapore. With a 3G femtocell device from the company, it will connects a user’s 3G mobile phone directly to its broadband router at home so that users can make voice and video calls and send SMS over StarHub’s cable network from their mobile phones. The ‘Home Zone’ is offered at a monthly subscription of $30 (without GST). Customers who subscribe to the VAS from now till 31 December 2008 can enjoy a special 50% discount for 12 months.

StarHub is making all local outgoing voice, video calls and SMS free for customers using the ‘Home Zone’ service, ensuring that users, who make frequent mobile calls and SMS from home, can enjoy significant cost-savings on their mobile phone bills.

While all outgoing local voice calls, video calls and SMS are free – MMS, IDD calls, mobile downloads, mobile surfing and other GPRS activities conducted over the mobile device will be charged at standard published rates.