NCC sees 5G coverage reaching 80% by 2024By Shelley Shan / Staff reporterThe 5G service coverage rate is expected to reach 80 percent by 2024, National Communications Commission (NCC) Chairman Chen Yaw-shyang (陳耀祥) said in a briefing to the legislature’s Transportation Committee in Taipei yesterday. National Communications Commission Chairman Chen Yaw-shyang speaks at a meeting of the legislature’s Transportation Committee in Taipei yesterday. The rules governing the appropriation of subsidies to carriers would be publicly disclosed by the end of this year, Chen said. The 5G service coverage rate is at about 26 percent now, and the subsidies can help reinforce telecoms infrastructure in both urban and rural areas and accelerate the developments of applications using 5G systems, he added. The commission also estimated that the nation’s 5G service coverage rate would reach 80 percent based on the speed at which carriers are expanding their base station infrastructure.

Source: Taipei Times November 05, 2020 15:56 UTC