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Far EasTone to decommission 5,000 Asia Pacific Telecom base stations: Report

Far EasTone Telecommunications had announced it would merge with Asia Pacific Telecom in a stock-swap deal last year Taiwanese operator Far EasTone Telecommunications (FET) said it is seeking to axe at least 5,000 base stations currently operated by Asia Pacific Telecom (APT) to avoid coverage...

Taiwan regulator approves two mergers with conditions

Taiwan Mobile and Far EasTone would have to return spectrum to have the mergers fully approved Taiwan’s telecom regulator approved the mergers between Taiwan Mobile and Taiwan Star Telecom, and Far EasTone and Asia Pacific Telecom (APT), local newspaper Taipei Times reported. The National Communications Commission...

Taiwan’s FET expects 5G to reach 40% of its mobile base this year

FET had initially launched commercial 5G services in Taiwan in 2020 Taiwanese operator Far EasTone Telecommunications expects its 5G subscriber penetration rate to reach 40% by the end of this year from more than 30% last year, local newspaper Taipei Times reported. The carrier’s president, Chee...

Far EasTone inks 5G R&D deal with Intel Taiwan

Far EasTone’s chairman, Chee Ching, said the telco has been looking to integrate and utilize 5G’s core technologies Taiwanese mobile operator Far EasTone Telecommunications has signed an agreement with Intel Taiwan to carry out joint research on 5G open virtualized radio access networks, computer vision...

Asia Pacific Telecom approves merger with Far EasTone

Asia Pacific Telecom and FET had previously announced a partnership to provide 5G services on Taiwan’s 3.5 GHz frequency band Taiwanese operator Asia Pacific Telecom (APT) approved a merger with rival telco Far EasTone Telecommunications during an extraordinary shareholders meeting, held on April 15. APT said...

Taiwan urges local carriers FET and APT to accelerate 5G rollouts: report

Taiwan's National Communications Commission (NCC) urged local mobile operators Far EasTone (FET) and Asia Pacific Telecom (APT) to accelerate the construction of 5G base stations, local news site Digitimes reported. The Taiwanese government has recently approved FET's NT$5 billion ($179 million) investment in APT that...

APT’s 5G coverage to reach 90% of Taiwan’s population by end-2021

Taiwanese operator Asia Pacific Telecom (APT) said it expects its 5G network to reach 90% of the nation’s population by the end of this year, local paper Taipei Times reported. According to the report, the telco expects to have a total of 9,500 5G base...

Taiwan to reach 5G penetration of 30% by end-2021: report

Taiwan is expected to reach a 5G penetration rate of nearly 30% by the end of this year, local new site Digitimes reported, citing industry sources. According to the report, Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) currently leads the Taiwanese 5G market, with nearly 1 million subscribers. The...

Taiwan Star targets 550,000 5G customers by end-2021: Report

Taiwan Star Telecom expects to reach 550,000 subscribers in the 5G segment at the end of the year, local new site Digitimes reported. This figure will represent nearly 20% of the carrier’s overall mobile base, according to the report. The telco, which had launched commercial 5G...

Ericsson inks new 5G deal with Taiwan’s Far EasTone Telecom

Taiwanese operator Far EasTone Telecom (FET) has selected Ericsson as its vendor for 5G Standalone (SA) and Non-standalone (NSA) dual-mode 5G Core and Voice over LTE (VoLTE) services, the latter said in a release. The deal builds on Ericsson’s existing 5G partnership with FET, including...

Ericsson secures new 5G contract in Taiwan

Ericsson has been selected by Taiwanese operator Asia-Pacific Telecom (APT) to modernize its network and support with 5G Non-Standalone (NSA) Multi-Operator Core Network readiness, the Swedish vendor said in a release. This includes integration with rival operator Far EasTone Telecommunications (FET) on the 3.5 GHz...

Taiwan’s 5G users exceed 1 million in five months

The number of 5G subscribers in Taiwan reached over 1 million after the introduction of the technology in July, Taipei Times reported, citing statistics released by the nation’s telecoms. In June, the government of Taiwan issued the first 5G license to Chunghwa Telecom, which paved...

Taiwan Star launches commercial 5G services

  Taiwan Star launched its commercial 5G services in the country, Taiwanese press reported. The operator said that the coverage of its 5G networks in Taiwan's major metropolitan areas has reached 50% and will top 80% by the end of this year. Taiwan Star also said it...

Nokia will be the sole 5G NR, core provider for Asia Pacific Telecom

The Asia Pacific Telecom 5G network will be deployed on 28 GHz mmWave spectrum in Taiwan Taiwanese mobile operator Asia Pacific Telecom (APT) has selected Nokia to be its sole 5G New Radio (NR) and 5G core (non-standalone and standalone) vendor. Nokia will provide its...

Chunghwa Telecom targets 4,000 5G base stations by end-2020: CFO

  Taiwanese operator Chunghwa Telecom expects to end 2020 with over 4,000 5G stations across Taiwan, the company’s President and CFO, Shui-Yi Kuo, said during a conference call with investors. “As of June 30, when we launched our 5G service more than 2,000 base stations covered...

Taiwan Mobile, Asia Pacific Telecom secure 5G licenses

  Taiwan Star Telecom and Asia Pacific Telecom have been issued 5G licenses, bringing the total number of licensed local 5G operators to five, Taiwan’s National Communications Commission (NCC) said.. Chunghwa Telecom, Far EasTone Telecommunications and Taiwan Mobile had secured 5G licenses last month and launched...

Taiwan Mobile secures 5G license, targets 5G launch in Q3

  Taiwan Mobile has become the third mobile operator to secure a 5G license in the country after telecommunications regulator NCC approved the telco’s 5G plan, according to local press reports. NCC Chief Secretary Hsiao Chi-hong said Taiwan Mobile is now expecting to deploy 4,000 5G...

Far EasTone secures Taiwan’s second 5G license: Report

  Taiwanese operator Far EasTone Telecommunications (FET) has obtained the second 5G license issued by the National Communications Commission (NCC), local newspaper Taiwan News reported. Last week, Chunghwa Telecom had secured the country’s first 5G license from NCC. Both operators said they would be able to launch...

Chunghwa Telecom secures first 5G license in Taiwan

  Taiwanese operator Chunghwa Telecom became the first telco in Taiwan to receive a license for 5G services, the National Communications Commission (NCC) said. The telco expects to launch commercial 5G services in Taiwan based on the non-standalone (NSA) architecture next month. The NCC, which regulates telecommunications...

Taiwanese carriers secure 5G spectrum following competitive auction

  Taiwan's 5G spectrum auction came to an end on January 16, after 261 rounds of bidding with total bids reaching NT$138.08 billion ($4.6 billion), according to information provided by Taiwan’s National Communications Commission (NCC). NCC confirmed that Taiwan’s operators Chunghwa Telecom (CHT), Taiwan Mobile, Far...

Chunghwa Telecom inks 5G, smart city agreement with Taipei

Taiwanese telco will deploy 5G base stations and smart sensors in streetlights and traffic signals   Taiwanese telecommunications firm Chunghwa Telecom signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Taipei city government for the development of smart city applications and internet of things (IoT) infrastructure in...

Funding, business case top IIoT adoption challenges

Funding and identifying the right business case are the top challenges to IIoT adoption. IIoT understanding is however growing fast. Awareness of industrial IoT (IIoT) has been improving fast, with 19 percent of companies saying they did not know or understand the IIoT in 2016,...