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Wimax In Taiwan

Frequency band use for Wimax in Taiwan starts from 2.5GHz – 2.690GHz

M-Taiwan Program

Taiwan National Communication Commission (NCC) has announced M-Taiwan program in Q1 2007. M-Taiwan program is essentially an ecosystem at work for building demand, supply, and infrastructure in the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) industry.

M-Taiwan program is operating at 2.500GHz – 2.530GHz (30MHz bandwidth). M-Taiwan program will create several city-wide broadband wireless networks to provide integrated mobile services. This spectrum will be owned by individual operator who is awarded by NCC in the respective provinces in Taiwan.

The main objective of M-Taiwan program is to strengthen Taiwan’s ICT infrastructure and services to provide a world class wireless broadband access environment for internet users by.

Wimax Commercial License

July 2007, NCC Taiwan awarded 6 Wimax spectrum license to the operator for commercial Wimax network usage.

The 6 license is geographically split to northern & southern region. Each license is having 30MHz bandwidth. There are 3 licenses in each north & south region.

The north region consists of
 * Taipei City
 * Keelung City
 * Hsinchu City
 * Taipei Hsien
 * Taoyuan Hsien
 * Hsinchu Hsien
 * Ilan Hsien
 * Hualien Hsien

The south region consists of
 * Kaohsiung City
 * Taichung City
 * Chiayi City
 * Tainan City
 * Miaoli Hsien
 * Taichung Hsien
 * CHanghwa Hsien
 * Nantou Hsien
 * Yunlin Hsien
 * Chiayi Hsien
 * Tainan Hsien
 * Kaohsiung Hsien
 * Pingtung Hsien
 * Taitung Hsien
 * Penghu Hsien
 * Kinmen Hsien

The detail 2.5GHz spectrum usage in Taiwan
 * 2.5-2.530 GHz => M-Taiwan Program
 * 2.530 – 2.565 GHz => Reserved Band
 * 2.565 – 2.595 GHz => Block 1
 * 2.595 – 2.625 GHz => Block 2
 * 2.625 – 2.660 GHz => Reserved Band
 * 2.660 – 2.690 GHz => Block 3

The respective operator who owns the license in the North & South region is as below

North Region
 * Block 1 – Fitel
 * Block 2 – Global Mobile Corporation
 * Block 3 – VMAX, Vibo+Telecom

South Region
 * Block 1 – Far East Tone (FET)
 * Block 2 – Tatung
 * Block 3 - Markwell

Lhew (talk) 08:25, 23 January 2009 (UTC)