Far EasTone Telecommunications Co Ltd (遠傳電信), the nation’s No. 3 telecoms operator, is planning to expand its wireless hotspot network to nearly 3,000 Taiwan FamilyMart Co (全家便利商店) outlets by the end of this year.
This would bring the number of hotspots operated by Far EasTone to a total of 25,000 by the end of the year, Far EasTone said yesterday.
“Smartphone users can be offered more Wi-Fi bandwidth amid the high density of Taiwan’s convenience stores,” Far Eastone president Yvonne Li (李彬) said in a press release.
FamilyMart, the nation’s second-largest convenience-store chain, has so far set up wireless hotspots at 1,400 of its outlets, the company’s data showed.
Meanwhile, the nation’s top telecoms operator, Chung-hwa Telecom Co (中華電信), has joined forces with a Chinese phone services provider in the development of mobile applications.
Chunghwa Telecom said yesterday its app store, Hami Apps, has posted more than 100 of its apps in China Unicom Ltd’s (中國聯通) app store, WoStore, to attract potential users, while WoStore has placed about 200 of its apps on the Hami Apps platform to broaden its services.
Chunghwa Telecom also said the number of users of Hami Apps is rising by 15 percent per month and now totals 250,000.
With its number of mobile phone subscribers on the rise and smartphones run on the Android operating system gaining popularity, the company expects Hami Apps to have 500,000 users by the end of this year.
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