Taiwan Telecommunications Profile 2001

Telephones - main lines in use

12.49 million (September 2000)

Telephones - mobile cellular

16 million (September 2000)

Telephone system

general assessment: provides telecommunications service for every business and private need

domestic: thoroughly modern; completely digitalized

international: satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (1 Pacific Ocean and 1 Indian Ocean); submarine cables to Japan (Okinawa), Philippines, Guam, Singapore, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Australia, Middle East, and Western Europe (1999)

Radios

16 million (1994)

Radio broadcast stations

AM 218, FM 333, shortwave 50 (1999)

Televisions

8.8 million (1998)

Television broadcast stations

29 (plus two repeaters) (1997)

Internet country code

.tw

Internet Service Providers (ISPs)

8 (2000)

Internet users

6.4 million (2000)