Taiwan’s National Communications Commission (NCC) urged local mobile operators Far EasTone (FET) and Asia Pacific Telecom (APT) to accelerate the construction of 5G base stations, local news site Digitimes reported.
The Taiwanese government has recently approved FET’s NT$5 billion ($179 million) investment in APT that will allow FET to obtain 11.58% of APT’s shares.
NCC had approved the plan under which the two carriers will share spectrum and network infrastructure with the aim of boosting 5G deployments in Taiwan. The two operators are sharing the 3.5GHz band for 5G network and are expected to build another 2,000 base stations in the future.
