Asia Pacific launches 3G services

While Asia Pacific Broadband Wireless Communication Inc. was celebrating its launch of the nation’s first 3G mobile services yesterday, telecom industry analysts said the high-speed mobile Internet service is not expected to become mainstream in the Taiwan market in the short term.

“The migration from current mobile service to advanced 3G services is a global trend,” said Jason Lin, a computer science and information engineering professor at the National Chiao Tung University, “however, the local market may not be ready for it at the moment.” Lin said flatly that the chances of 3G services gaining significant popularity in Taiwan by 2005 are very low. Continue >>