2008 Asia - Telecoms, Mobile and Broadband in Taiwan

1. Key Statistics

2. Telecommunications Market

• 2.1 Overview
  • 2.1.1 Taiwan earthquake - December 2006

3. Regulatory Environment

• 3.1 Regulatory authorities
• 3.2 The 1996 Telecom Bill
• 3.3 National Communications Commission (NCC) Bill - 2005
• 3.4 Ministry of Transport and Communications (MOTC)
• 3.5 Privatisation of Chunghwa Telecom
• 3.6 The deregulation process
  • 3.6.1 Liberalised mobile market
  • 3.6.2 Liberalised fixed-line market
  • 3.6.3 Mobile Number Portability (MNP)
  • 3.6.4 World Trade Organization (WTO) membership
• 3.7 Foreign investment
• 3.8 Licence fee and rental charges
• 3.9 WiMAX

4. Fixed Network Operators in Taiwan

• 4.1 Fixed network voice services
  • 4.1.1 Market overview
  • 4.1.2 VoIP services
• 4.2 Overview of operators
  • 4.2.1 Chunghwa Telecom Co Ltd
  • 4.2.2 Eastern Broadband Telecom
  • 4.2.3 New Century InfoComm Tech Co Ltd (Sparq)
  • 4.2.4 Taiwan Fixed Network Telecom

5. Telecommunications Infrastructure

• 5.1 National
  • 5.1.1 NGN/IP networks
  • 5.1.2 Network expansion
• 5.2 International
  • 5.2.1 Submarine cable networks
  • 5.2.2 Satellite networks

6. Broadband and Internet Market

• 6.1 Internet market
  • 6.1.1 Overview
  • 6.1.2 Public Internet access
  • 6.1.3 Internet hosts
  • 6.1.4 Direct Internet access network
  • 6.1.5 TWGate
  • 6.1.6 ISP market
• 6.2 E-services
  • 6.2.1 Overview
  • 6.2.2 E-commerce
  • 6.2.3 E-banking
  • 6.2.4 E-government
• 6.3 Broadband market
  • 6.3.1 Overview
  • 6.3.2 Digital Subscriber Line (DSL)
  • 6.3.3 Cable modems
  • 6.3.4 Wireless broadband
  • 6.3.5 Fibre-to-the-Home (FttH)
  • 6.3.6 Video-on-Demand (VoD)
  • 6.3.7 High-speed ISP services

7. Convergence

• 7.1 Overview of media convergence
• 7.2 Overview of broadcasting market
  • 7.2.1 Broadcasting and film
• 7.3 Regulatory issues
  • 7.3.1 National Communications Commission (NCC)
  • 7.3.2 Cable licences
  • 7.3.3 Cable Audio and TV law 1999
• 7.4 Digital TV
  • 7.4.1 Broadband TV
  • 7.4.2 Cable TV and pay TV
  • 7.4.3 Satellite TV
  • 7.4.4 Digital Terrestrial TV
  • 7.4.5 Mobile TV

8. Mobile Communications

• 8.1 Overview of Taiwan' s mobile market
  • 8.1.1 Mobile statistics
• 8.2 Regulatory issues
  • 8.2.1 Impact of competition
  • 8.2.2 Low tier mobile licences
• 8.3 Mobile technologies
  • 8.3.1 Third Generation (3G) mobile
  • 8.3.2 Next generation services
  • 8.3.3 Mobile handset market
• 8.4 Major mobile operators
  • 8.4.1 Chunghwa Telecom
  • 8.4.2 Far EasTone Telecommunications (FET)
  • 8.4.3 KG Telecom
  • 8.4.4 MobiTai Telecom
  • 8.4.5 Taiwan Mobile (formerly Taiwan Cellular)
  • 8.4.6 Asia Pacific Broadband Wireless (APBW)
  • 8.4.7 VIBO Telecom
• 8.5 Mobile voice services
  • 8.5.1 Prepaid cards
  • 8.5.2 Personal Handyphone Service (PHS)/Personal Access System (PAS)
• 8.6 Mobile data services
  • 8.6.1 Short Message Service (SMS)
  • 8.6.2 Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS)
  • 8.6.3 Wireless Application Protocol (WAP)
  • 8.6.4 General Packet Radio Service (GPRS)
  • 8.6.5 Mobile Internet
  • 8.6.6 Video calls
  • 8.6.7 Push-to-Talk (PTT)
  • 8.6.8 WiMAX

9. Glossary of Abbreviations

• Table 1 - Country statistics Taiwan - 2008
• Table 2 - Telecom revenue and investment statistics - 2007
• Table 3 - Telephone network statistics - 2007
• Table 4 - Internet user statistics - 2007
• Table 5 - Broadband statistics - 2007
• Table 6 - Mobile statistics - 2007
• Table 7 - National telecommunications authorities
• Table 8 - Fixed telephone lines versus mobile subscriptions and penetrations - 1997 - 2007
• Table 9 - Call volumes for mobile and fixed networks - 1999 - 2007
• Table 10 - Distribution of telecom revenue by services - 2007
• Table 11 - Data communication revenue as proportion of total telecom revenue - 2001 - 2007
• Table 12 - Fixed network operators - market share by revenue - 2007
• Table 13 - Chunghwa Telecom fixed subscribers and market share - 2004 - 2007
• Table 14 - Chunghwa Telecom subscriber base - February 2008
• Table 15 - Chunghwa Telecom revenue, CAPEX, net profit and employees - 2000 - 2007
• Table 16 - Chunghwa Telecom fixed-line & mobile subscribers and market share - 2000 - 2007
• Table 17 - Fixed lines in service and teledensity - 1995 - 2007
• Table 18 - International outgoing calls overview - 1980; 1985; 1990; 1995; 2000 - 2006
• Table 19 - Internet users - 1995 - 2007
• Table 20 - Internet subscribers - 1996 - 2008
• Table 21 - Internet subscribers by access method - 2007
• Table 22 - International Internet bandwidth capacity - 2001 - 2007
• Table 23 - Data communications revenue - 2001 - 2007
• Table 24 - Internet hosts in Taiwan - 2001 - 2007
• Table 25 - Chunghwa Telecom Internet subscribers by access type - 2003 - 2007
• Table 26 - Chunghwa Telecom Internet ARPU (NT$) - 2003 - 2007
• Table 27 - Broadband subscribers, penetration & proportion of Internet subscribers - 2000 - 2007
• Table 28 - Broadband subscribers and households - 2007
• Table 29 - Broadband subscribers by access type and annual change - 2007
• Table 30 - DSL subscribers - 2001 - 2007
• Table 31 - Chunghwa Telecom broadband subscribers and market share - 2001 - 2007
• Table 32 - Chunghwa Telecom HiNet subscriber and ARPU - 2004 - 2006
• Table 33 - Breakdown of xDSL and cable download speeds - 2007
• Table 34 - GigaMedia broadband subscribers - 1999 - 2005
• Table 35 - Key broadcasting statistics - 2006
• Table 36 - Leading pay TV platforms
• Table 37 - Media consumption in Taiwan - 2006
• Table 38 - Pay TV subscribers by platform - 2002 - 2007
• Table 39 - Cable TV operator revenues and investment in select countries - 2004 - 2006
• Table 40 - Mobile TV trial broadcasters
• Table 41 - Mobile subscribers and penetration - 1995 - 2007
• Table 42 - 3G mobile subscribers and market share - 2003 - 2007
• Table 43 - Mobile services revenue - 1992 - 2007
• Table 44 - 2G and 3G mobile services ARPU - 2005 - 2007
• Table 45 - Mobile operators, subscribers and annual change - 2007
• Table 46 - Mobile subscribers, market share and ARPU by operator - 2007
• Table 47 - Chunghwa Telecom mobile subscribers and annual change - 1998 - 2008
• Table 48 - Chunghwa Telecom 3G fee rate chart - February 2008
• Table 49 - Far EasTone mobile subscribers and annual change - 1998 - 2007
• Table 50 - KG Telecom mobile subscribers and annual change - 1998 - 2006
• Table 51 - Taiwan Mobile subscribers and annual change - 1998 - 2007
• Table 52 - Taiwan Mobile revenue, net profit after tax - 2001 - 2007
• Table 53 - APBW mobile subscribers and annual change - 2003 - 2007
• Table 54 - VIBO Telecom mobile subscribers and annual change - 2005 - 2007
• Table 55 - Prepaid 2G subscribers - market share - 2000 - 2007
• Table 56 - PHS subscribers - 2001 - 2007
• Table 57 - Mobile data service revenue as proportion of total mobile revenue - 2001 - 2007
• Table 58 - SMS message volume and revenue - 2000 - 2007
• Table 59 - WAP subscribers - 2001 - 2006
• Table 60 - GPRS subscribers - 2001 - 2006
• Table 61 - Mobile Internet subscribers - 2001 - 2007
• Table 62 - Taiwan 2.5GHz spectrum winners

• Exhibit 1 - Major broadcasting organisations
• Exhibit 2 - Mobile data licence winners