On top of the standard information carried by most teletext providers, it also carried information unique to Singapore, such as COE and ERP rates, announcements from selected ministries in Singapore and lottery results.
The Singapore Broadcasting Corporation was studying the feasilbility of a teletext service as early as November 1982.
Tenders were given to thirty television sets capable to receive such signals[1] By January, SBC was aiming at a possible 1 May launch date.
British company Logica provided the equipment,[3][4][5] while the SBC Text staff were trained by Ceefax executive Graham Clayton for two weeks in May 1983.
[16] Due to "popular demand from businessmen", SBC announced that the service would start an hour earlier (at 6am) effective 1 February 1984.
[17] By October 1984, SBC announced plans to expand the service, whose user base has risen from 3,000 at the time of launch the previous year to 25,000.
On 3 September 2013, MediaCorp announced that the service will be discontinued from 30th of that month due to “declining usage”.