Taipei, Dec. 21 (CNA) Taiwan's 5G mobile network market is extremely dynamic with fierce competition, but the Mobile Experience Awards were dominated by three out of five national operators, according to the latest awards report by Opensignal, a U.K.-based mobile analytics company that specializes in analyzing consumer mobile experience.
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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,
Taipei, Feb. 25 (CNA) Far EasTone Telecommunications Co., one of Taiwan's biggest telecom companies, announced Friday it would merge with smaller rival Asia Pacific Telecom Co. in a stock-swap deal.
The National Communications Commission (NCC) yesterday said that it would use criteria listed in Article 26 of the Telecommunications Management Act (電信管理法) to review a proposed merger between Taiwan Mobile Co and Taiwan Star Telecom Corp.
If realized, the merger, which was announced on Thursday last week and is estimated to cost NT$28.2 billion (US$1.02 billion), would expand Taiwan Mobile’s subscriber base to 9.76 million users, which would be slightly fewer than that of Chunghwa Telecom, the nation’s largest telecom.
The nation’s second-largest telecom would also secure a bandwidth of 100 megahertz (MHz) in the 3.5 gigahertz (GHz) frequency band through the