Taiwan's Chunghwa Telecom Reaches 2.7 Million DSL Users

Chunghwa Telecom, the incumbent operator in Taiwan, reported 2.7 million ADSL subscribers as of 30-June-2004, up by 138,000 over the preceding quarter and up by 33.5% over a year earlier.



Chunghwa's total fixed line subscriber base stood at approximately 13.2 million as of 30-June-2004, an increase of 1.1% year over year. However, total fixed line revenues for the first half 2004 declined by 6.9% due mainly due to fixed line competition, mobile substitution and continuous migration of dial-up subscribers to ADSL.



Chunghwa continues to be the leading mobile operator in Taiwan in both revenue and subscriber market share with 35.4% and 35.1% respectively as of the end of June 2004. Mobile subscribers reached 8.1 million, a 4.1% year-over-year increase. As the company continued to cut inactive prepaid subscribers, the percentage of prepaid subscribers decreased contributing to the increase in ARPU. http://www.cht.com.tw