By Shelley Shan / Staff reporterThe government is to auction off more frequency bands for 4G telecom service, the National Communications Commission (NCC) said yesterday, adding that an auction for the bands is scheduled to be completed by the end of this year. This would be the third auction for 4G service providers; the others were held in 2014 and 2015. The commission said there would be six frequency bands up for auction this time and bandwidth 4G service providers could bid for would be 150MHz in total. Although 4G carriers have spent huge amounts of money acquiring bandwidths, Wong said a heated price war among them could have a negative impact on the industry. Chunghwa Telecom on March 3 announced it would offered a 4G service with an unlimited data plan, but limited minutes for voice service for NT$499 month.

Source: Taipei Times March 13, 2017 16:01 UTC