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Friday 8 October 2010
NCC approves APBT plans to purchase base stations from Huawei
Taiwan's National Communications Commission (NCC) has issued a green light for telecom carrier Asia Pacific Broadband Telecom (APBT) to import the first batch of base station equipment...
Wednesday 15 September 2010
Taiwan government to allow local telecom carriers to lay cross-strait undersea cables
Taiwan's Ministry of Transportation and Communications has decided to allow Taiwan-based telecom carriers to cooperate with their China counterparts to lay undersea cables across...
Thursday 26 August 2010
NCC explains stringent inspection procedures on China-made telecom equipment
Taiwan's National Communications Commission (NCC), in response to questions from industry players that it may want to block imports of telecoms equipment made by China-based makers...
Thursday 29 July 2010
Taiwan NCC decides to shift pricing for fixed-line to mobile calls to fixed-line operators
Taiwan's National Communications Commission (NCC) on July 28 passed a regulatory amendment to shift the pricing rights for voice calls from fixed-line telephones to mobile phones...
Thursday 15 July 2010
Taiwan market: CHT raises ADSL speeds without hiking prices
Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) on July 14 announced it will upgrade three existing ADSL download/upload speeds with circuit-lease and network fees remaining unchanged.
Thursday 8 July 2010
Taiwan market: NCC paving legal way for using femtocells
Taiwan's National Communications Commission (NCC) on July 7 came up with a draft new regulation on setting up and operating mobile communication base stations which adds provisions...
Monday 17 May 2010
Taiwan market: 1Q10 mobile voice calls up 11.35% on year
Mobile voice communications in the Taiwan market in the first quarter of 2010 totaled 9.677 billion minutes, increasing on year by 11.35%, according to the National Communications...
Friday 7 May 2010
Taiwan market: No decision yet on release of GSM bands for 4G operation, says NCC
While Taiwan's Ministry of Transportation and Communications has unveiled a plan to phase out GSM mobile communication standard in 2017 to make the frequency bands of 900MHz and 1,800MHz...
Thursday 6 May 2010
Taiwan reportedly plans to switch to digital TV broadcast in 2013
Taiwan's National Communications Commission (NCC) plans to completely switch terrestrial TV to digital broadcast in 2013, according to industry sources.
Thursday 29 April 2010
Taiwan market: Pricing for fixed-line to mobile calls to be shifted to fixed-line operators
Taiwan's National Communications Commission (NCC) on April 28 decided to shift the pricing rights for voice calls from fixed-line telephone numbers to mobile phone numbers to fixed-line...
Tuesday 6 April 2010
Taiwan market: NCC to liberalize geographical coverage for cable TV operation
Taiwan's National Communications Commission (NCC) on April 2 announced a draft amendment to the Cable Radio and Television Act mainly for removing the existing limit to the geographical...
Thursday 11 March 2010
Taiwan market: Fitel receives WiMAX operating license from NCC
WiMAX licensee First International Telecom (Fitel) has received an operating license from Taiwan's National Communications Commission (NCC), making it the last of six licensees to...
Thursday 4 March 2010
Taiwan market: NCC issues WiMAX operating license to Vee Telecom
Taiwan's National Communications Commission (NCC) has issued a WiMAX operating license to Vee Telecom Multimedia. Vee is expected to kick off WiMAX commercial operations in Kinmen...
Thursday 25 February 2010
Taiwan market: NCC to issue only 1 mobile TV license by year-end 2010, say sources
Taiwan's National Communications Commission (NCC) plans to issue only one mobile TV operating license before the end of 2010, instead of the release of two licenses as originally...
Tuesday 23 February 2010
Taiwan NCC plans digital TV set top box subsidy
Taiwan's National Communications Commission (NCC), in line with its policy to stop analog terrestrial TV broadcasts in 2012, is drawing up a plan to subsidize the purchase of digital...