Taiwan market: 3.5G data card users double in 2009

The number of 3.5G data card users in Taiwan doubled to 660,000 at the end of 2009 compared to 330,000 a year earlier, according to data compiled by Taiwan's National Communications Commission (NCC).

Subscribers to fixed line broadband services such as cable and FTTx also continued to grow in 2009 albeit at a slow pace, but the number of subscribers using ADSL for Internet access suffered a decline, NCC data showed.

Taiwan broadband Internet subscribers, 2009 (m units)

Period


Fixed line broadband Internet subscribers


Mobile Internet subscribers

ADSL


FTTx


Cable


Others


3.5G data card

1Q09


2.907


1.379


0.68


0.033


0.417

2Q09


2.866


1.276


0.74


0.026


0.509

3Q09


2.728


1.424


0.783


0.02


0.592

4Q09


2.581


1.532


0.81


0.019


0.66