Kate Lin and Kaddy Chung, Taipei; Adam Hwang, DIGITIMES [Tuesday 6 November 2007]
Taiwan Mobile (TWM), one of the top three operators of mobile communication services in Taiwan and the only Taiwan member of the Bridge Alliance, on November 5 announced the launch of Bridge DataRoam, a data roaming service across the networks of the 11 members of the alliance in 11 Asia Pacific countries at uniform charge rates, according to a TWM press release.
The other 10 members of the Bridge Alliance, the largest alliance of mobile telecom carriers in the Asia Pacific region, are SingTel in Singapore, Maxis in Malaysia, CSL in Hong Kong, Optus in Australia, Globe in the Philippines, Airtel in India, Telkomsel in Indonesia, SKT in South Korea, AIS in Thailand and CTM in Macao, TWM indicated.
For Bridge DataRoam, TWM offers two fixed monthly charge rates for its subscribers: NT$999 (US$30.8) for data communications of up to 15MB a month, and NT$1,999 for data up to 40MB. The former fee rate is equivalent to NT$66.6/MB and the latter NT$50/MB, compared to typical rates of NT$246/MB in China, NT$553/Mb in Thailand, NT$594/MB in Australia and NT$461/MB in India, TWM pointed out.
In addition, TWM offers the same prices for its BlackBerry subscribers roaming in China using the networks of China Mobile Communications and China United Telecommunications, the company indicated.
Taiwan Mobile launches Bridge DataRoam service
Photo: Kate Lin, Digitimes
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