Taiwan market: 3.5G more advantageous than WiMAX over next 2-3 years, says Taiwan Mobile
HSDPA (high-speed downlink packet access), commonly referred to as 3.5G, is expected to gain the upper hand over WiMAX during the next two to three years in terms of commercial operations in Taiwan, according to chief business officer Cliff Lai for Taiwan Mobile (TWM).
In terms of technological development, 3.5G is mature relative to WiMAX, Lai explained. Although WiMAX offers quicker access to the Internet than 3.5G, demand for mobile access to the Internet at such speeds is lower than that for fixed-line access, Lai pointed out. In addition, WiMAX incurs much higher base station deployment costs than that of 3.5G, Lai indicated.
TWM will extend its 3.5G infrastructure from northern Taiwan to the central and southern regions by the end of 2007 to extend 3.5G service around Taiwan by the end of 2008, Lai said.
While failing to obtain a regional WiMAX operation license in June 2007, TWM may compete for two island-wide WiMAX licenses to be issued in 2009, Lai indicated, noting that WiMAX operations will be more mature to some extent then and costs of COE (central office equipment) and CPE (customer premises equipment) are expected to be lower, Lai pointed out.
In related news, TWM and Yahoo! Kimo (Yahoo! Taiwan) on October 25 jointly announced the launch of the first traditional Chinese-language version of Yahoo! oneSearch for mobile online search services on TWM's value-added service platform Catch, with TWM being the exclusive partner.
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