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Chunghwa Telecom to launch 3G services this month

Daniel Shen, Taipei; Adam Hwang, DigiTimes.com [Thursday 14 July 2005]

http://www.digitimes.com/telecom/a20050712A6029.html

Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) announced it will kick off operations of its 3G mobile communication services on July 26. To promote the service, the company plans to offer 3G fee rates comparable with 2G and 2.5G rates, as well as offering discounted phones priced from NT$1 to NT$7,990 (US$250) for its first two 3G handset models, the Sony Ericsson K600I and Motorola V975.

CHT will unveil eight additional 3G handset models, including one made by BenQ, on July 26 and the company aims to have 100,000 3G subscribers by the end of this year. CHT plans to expand its 3G infrastructure from about 2,000 base stations currently to 3,000 units to accommodate two million subscribers by April 2006.