2007 Asia - Telecoms, Mobile and Broadband in Taiwan

• Key Statistics;
• Market and Industry Overviews;
• Regulatory Environment;
• Major Players (fixed and mobile);
• Infrastructure;
• Mobile Voice and Data Markets, including 3G;
• Internet, VoIP, IPTV;
• Broadband (DSL, cable TV, wireless);
• Convergence and Digital Media.

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 Privatisation of Chunghwa Telecom

3.5 The deregulation process

3.5.1 Liberalised mobile market

3.5.2 Liberalised fixed-line market

3.5.3 Mobile Number Portability (MNP)

3.5.4 WTO membership

3.6 Foreign investment

3.7 Licence fee and rental charges

4. FIXED NETWORK OPERATORS IN TAIWAN

4.1 Fixed network voice services

4.1.1 Market overview

4.1.2 VoIP services

4.2 Chunghwa Telecom Co Ltd

4.3 Eastern Broadband Telecom (EBT)

4.4 New Century InfoComm Tech Co Ltd (Sparq)

4.5 Taiwan Fixed Network Telecom

5. TELECOMMUNICATIONS INFRASTRUCTURE

5.1 National

5.1.1 NGN / IP networks

5.2 International

5.2.1 Submarine cable networks

5.2.2 Satellite networks

6. BROADBAND AND INTERNET MARKET

6.1 Internet

6.1.1 Overview

6.1.2 Public Internet access

6.1.3 Direct Internet access network

6.1.4 TWGate

6.1.5 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 Fibre-to-the-Home (FttH)

6.3.5 Wireless broadband

6.3.6 Advanced broadband options

6.3.7 Video-on-Demand (VoD)

6.3.8 High-speed ISP services

7. CONVERGENCE

7.1 Overview of media convergence

7.2 Overview of broadcasting market

7.3 Regulatory issues

7.3.1 Cable licences

7.3.2 Cable Audio and TV law 1999

7.4 Digital TV

7.4.1 Cable TV and Pay TV

7.4.2 Satellite TV

7.4.3 Digital Terrestrial 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

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 System (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)

9. GLOSSARY OF ABBREVIATIONS

List of Exhibits

Exhibit 1 - Major broadcasting organisations

Exhibit 2 - Mobile data licence winners

List of Tables

Table 1 - Country statistics Taiwan - 2006

Table 2 - Telecom revenue and investment statistics - 2006

Table 3 - Telephone network statistics - 2006

Table 4 - Internet user statistics - 2006

Table 5 - Broadband statistics - 2006

Table 6 - Mobile statistics - 2006

Table 7 - National telecommunications authorities

Table 8 - Fixed telephone lines versus mobile subscriptions and penetrations - 1997 - 2006

Table 9 - Fixed network operators - market share by revenue - 2006

Table 10 - Chunghwa Telecom subscribers by service - 2006

Table 11 - Fixed lines in service and teledensity - 1995 - 2006

Table 12 - Internet users - 1995 - 2006

Table 13 - Internet subscribers - 1996 - 2006

Table 14 - Internet subscribers by access method - September 2006

Table 15 - Data communications revenue - 2001 - 2006

Table 16 - Broadband subscribers, penetration & portion of Internet subscribers - 2000 - 2006

Table 17 - Broadband subscribers and households - 2006

Table 18 - Broadband subscribers and annual change by access - 2006

Table 19 - DSL subscriber growth - 2001 - 2006

Table 20 - GigaMedia broadband subscribers - 1999 - 2005

Table 21 - Key broadcasting statistics - 2006

Table 22 - Pay TV subscribers by platform - 2002 - 2006

Table 23 - Mobile subscriber growth and penetration - 1995 - 2006

Table 24 - 3G mobile subscriber growth and market share - 2003 - 2006

Table 25 - Mobile services revenue - 1992 - 2006

Table 26 - Mobile services ARPU - 2G and 3G - 2005 - 2006

Table 27 - 3G mobile subscriber growth - 2003 - 2006

Table 28 - Mobile subscribers by operator and annual change - 2006

Table 29 - Subscribers and market share by operator - 2006

Table 30 - Chunghwa Telecom mobile subscribers and annual change - 1998 - 2006

Table 31 - Far EasTone mobile subscribers and annual change - 1998 - 2006

Table 32 - KG Telecom mobile subscribers and annual change - 1998 - 2006

Table 33 - Taiwan Mobile subscribers and annual change - 1998 - 2006

Table 34 - APBW mobile subscribers and annual change - 2003 - 2006

Table 35 - VIBO Telecom mobile subscribers and annual change - 2005 - 2006

Table 36 - Prepaid 2G subscribers - market share - 2000 - 2006

Table 37 - PHS subscriber growth - 2001 - 2006

Table 38 - SMS message volume and revenue - 2001 - 2006

Table 39 - WAP subscriber growth - 2001 - 2006

Table 40 - GPRS subscriber growth - 2001 - 2006