Taiwan’s incumbent Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) has selected Alcatel, Acer and Ambit (recently merged with Foxconn) for an IPTV project. The contract was valued at EUR 4.75 million. The IP-based television services will use Alcatel’s Open Media Suite and Open Video Server, along with STB (set top box) hardware technologies from Acer and Ambit. The carrier is already offering IP-based Video-On-Demand, Karaoke-on-Demand, and an Electronic Program Guide for broadcast TV.
Chunghwa Telecom currently serves approximately three million ADSL subscribers and has some 30,000 IPTV subscribers. The carrier is forecasting approximately 100,000 IPTV subscribers in the first year and one million subscribers within three years. http://www.alcatel.com
- In March 2004, Chunghwa Telecom was granted a cable TV license. It subsequently launched a multimedia-on-demand service in the cities of Taipei, Keelung, Taoyuan and Hsinchu.
