Telecoms are to be ordered to suspend Internet transmission for large online platforms and other digital intermediary services if they commit substantial legal offenses without taking corrective action, the National Communications Commission said yesterday.
The commission conducted an information session regarding the digital intermediary service draft act attended by representatives of telecoms, multiple system operators, the Taiwan Network Information Center (TWNIC) and Cable Broadband Institute of Taiwan (CBIT).
The draft act would not require intermediary service providers to do anything that is technically impossible, NCC Planning Department Director Wang De-wei (王德威) said.
The draft act, which is based on the EU’s Digital
The Ministry of Digital Affairs is to be launched on Aug. 27, with Minister Without Portfolio Audrey Tang (唐鳳) serving as its first minister, Executive Yuan spokesman Lo Ping-cheng (羅秉成) said yesterday.
The new ministry is to promote interdisciplinary cooperation in digital services, complete and apply the “Data for Social Good” system and facilitate technology and data democratization.
National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University associate engineering professor Chiueh Her-ming (闕河鳴) and iPass Corp chairman Lee Huai-jen (李懷仁) are to serve as political deputy ministers.
Tang must relinquish her minister without portfolio duties before assuming the position, Lo said, adding that her successor would
Taiwan Star Telecom subscribers should receive at least a 5 percent discount on their next phone bill if they experienced a service drop on Tuesday, National Communications Commission (NCC) Chairman Chen Yaw-shyang (陳耀祥) said yesterday.
Chen was addressing the legislature’s Transportation Committee.
Lawmakers across party lines asked Chen how the commission could ensure that Taiwan Star would compensate its subscribers after they lost access to telecom services for four hours on Tuesday afternoon due to a power outage in the company’s telecommunications room in Taipei’s Neihu District (內湖).
The commission had received 144 complaints from Taiwan Star subscribers as of Wednesday, Chen said,
The Russia-Ukraine war is reviving concerns in Taiwan regarding the fragility of its internet connections. Ukraine has used the internet heavily to rally resistance, counter Russia's [.]