Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) plans to offer less expensive mid-range smartphone and tablet PCs to increase the number of its mobile Internet-access subscribers from 700,000 currently to one million in 2011, according to the company.
Offering high-end smartphones by Apple, Samsung Electronics and HTC has driven the global smartphone market to take off, but in the Taiwan market less expansive models matched with relatively low monthly rates are key to expanding user bases, CHT pointed out.
While mobile telecom carriers want to increase subscriptions for mobile Internet-access services, they have faced the problem of fast increasing traffic burdens on their 3G networks, CHT indicated. Since 80-90% of its mobile Internet-access users pay fixed monthly fees for unlimited usage, CHT is considering caps, the company noted.
