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Tuesday 10 January 2012
Taiwan market: WiMAX services subscribers exceed 130,000
The number of WiMAX services subscribers in Taiwan reached 131,000 at the end of November 2011, an increase of 84.5% from the number recorded at the end of June 2011, according to...
Wednesday 4 January 2012
Taiwan market: Taipei city government to expand Wi-Fi network of free access to Internet
The Taipei City Government will enlarge the coverage of Taipei Free, its free 512Kbps wireless Internet-access service via Wi-Fi hot spots at selected public places, through expanding...
Tuesday 27 December 2011
Taiwan to include LTE-Advanced in communication program
Taiwan's National Science Council has decided to add LTE-Advanced to its Networked Communication Program (NCP) which originally focused on development of WiMAX only.
Friday 16 December 2011
Taiwan market: Global Mobile launches own-brand dual-mode smartphone
Global Mobile, one of the six WiMAX operators in Taiwan, on December 15 launched 7G Miracle, an own-brand 3G/WiMAX dual-mode smartphone, for sale in the Taiwan market at a contract-free...
Monday 12 December 2011
Gemtek aims at NT$30 billion in 2012 revenues, says chairman
Gemtek Technology, which makes wireless broadband networking/communication devices, aims to reach consolidated revenues of NT$30 billion (US$1 billion) in 2012, growing 7.1% from...
Wednesday 26 October 2011
Taiwan market: Global Mobile unveils WiMAX/WCDMA dual-mode smartphone
Global Mobile, a WiMAX operator in the northern half of Taiwan, has unveiled its first WiMAX/WCDMA dual-mode smartphone for launch in December 2011.
Friday 21 October 2011
Standalone transceiver chips to dominate the smartphone market, says Petrov Group (part 1)
Transceivers are essential to the performance of mobile devices. They are designed to detect weak signals at a specific frequency when receiving and to send signals at a specific...
Monday 3 October 2011
Taiwan market: Global Mobile expects to reach break-even in 2H12
Global Mobile, a WiMAX operator in the northern half of Taiwan, expects the number of subscribers and monthly ARPU (average revenues per user) to increase to 250,000 and NT$600 (US$19.80)...
Monday 26 September 2011
Taiwan market: Vee TIME proposes buyout of fellow WiMAX operator Vmax
Vee TIME, a WiMAX operator in southern Taiwan, has proposed a 100% buy-out of Vmax Telecom, a fellow company operating in northern Taiwan, at NT$1.45 billion (US$49.2 million), with...
Wednesday 14 September 2011
Taipei to have WiMAX buses
Global Mobile is installing WiMAX equipment on public buses in the Taipei area to allow passengers to have free mobile Internet-access, according to the company.
Thursday 1 September 2011
Taiwan market: Vee TIME to offer WiMAX services on high-speed trains
Vee TIME, one of the six WiMAX operators in Taiwan, will set up about 100 base stations along the 360km high-speed railway in Taiwan to provide WiMAX Internet-access multimedia services...
Monday 1 August 2011
WiMAX should develop toward dual-mode single frequency band, says Global Mobile chairwoman
Chairwoman Rosemary Ho for Global Mobile, one of the six WiMAX operators in Taiwan, has expressed her opinions about how WiMAX will develop under competition from LTE and the company's...
Friday 29 July 2011
Gemtek to launch WiMAX/GSM dual-mode handsets by year-end 2011
Gemtek Technology is developing WiMAX/GSM dual-mode handsets and plans to roll out the devices before the end of 2011, according to company managing director Kevin Yang.
Friday 22 July 2011
Sequans, Greenpacket and P1 collaborate on LTE solutions
4G chipmaker Sequans Communications, 4G networking solutions provider, Greenpacket, and Packet One Networks (P1), a major 4G operator in Southeast Asia, have jointly announced that...
Thursday 14 July 2011
Taiwan makers to roll out over NT$27 billion worth of LTE devices in 2015, says GSMA director
The number of subscribers for LTE services is expected to top 300 million globally by 2015 with related makers in Taiwan being able to produce NT$27.3 billion (US$944.31 million)...