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The M-Taiwan Program: A Vision
Any where, any time, any one to enjoy
Broadband/Wireless services
M-lifestyle
e-Logistics
e-Traffic
Wireless access +
M- applications
e-Zoo
Food
Guide
M-services
Cellular
WLAN
e-gov
ITS
•FTTH
•xDSL
Tour Guide
M-learning
Museum
School
Art
Library
Medicine
面臨電信產業成熟期
韓政府擬以u-Korea進入再跳躍期
智慧基礎社會
(Ubiquitous社會)
知識基礎社會
• 透過網際網路，實現
新生活環境。
• 透過PC等裝置上網，
使用相關服務。
轉換期
e-Korea
• 物品皆內建晶片等辨識
裝置，實現實際與虛擬
社會結合的生活環境。
• 無時空限制；不知使用
方式，亦可便利操作任
何產品。
u-Korea
導入期
1994
1995
情報通信部 寬頻網路
(MIC)成立 建構計畫
成長期
1999
寬頻服務
正式展開
資料來源：韓國電算院（NCA），2005/6
2004 2005
成熟期
2007
IT839策略 寬頻國家網 進入u-Korea
階段
提出 路事業終了
再跳躍期
2012
2015
u-Korea
發展階段
u-Korea
成熟階段
Source:DigiTimes Research 2005/09
E, M, U, ….
• e-Japan, u-Japan
• e-Korea, u-Korea
• e-Taiwan, m-Taiwan, u-Taiwan (under
planning)
What are the real reasons for these projects?
Objective for M-Taiwan:
Improving the ICT Strengths of Taiwan
• Industry: build up business opportunities for Communications
Industry
– Promote communications industry to become ‘Trillion Industry’
– Collaborate with international corporations to stimulate the value
chain and enhance technical abilities as well as global business
opportunities
• Society: create wireless broadband access environment
– Develop environment for seamless internet access: 8 million
subscribers without surfing barriers
– Provide single account roaming service: a user can use a single
account to roam over the island
• Infrastructure: strengthen IT infrastructures and services
– Elevate national competitiveness: bring Taiwan to be one of the
top 5 regions in global mobile internet applications
– Develop mobile cites: build up 10 mobile cities around Taiwan
But How? First, some background from the demand side
Need for Change in Taiwan’s
Industrial R&D Policies
• Taiwan is interested in breaking the current
stagnancy in its GDP growth
• Taiwan’s R&D is almost all manufacturingcentric, while service industries constitute about
70% of Taiwan’s GDP
• Manufacturing profits are diminishing in most
areas
• Thus, Taiwan cannot grow its GDP without some
fundamental change in its R&D policies. In
particular, the policies will need to be more
service-oriented
The M-Taiwan Program intends to establish new
capabilities in next-general high-tech services.
But where are the opportunities?
Pretty Good Networking
Capabilities in Taiwan
• Fixed broadband: cable modem, xDSL, FTTB
– NT$880 (US$ 27) per month for 10M/2M D/U FTTB including
IPTV
• Wi-Fi
– 90% of worldwide Wi-Fi CPEs are manufactured or assembled in
Taiwan
– more than 40% of DSL users have Wi-Fi APs
• Cellular
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“Manufacturing more than 10% of worldwide cellphones
Penetration rate > 100%
PHS, GSM/GPRS, CDMA2000, WCDMA
NT$850 per month for 3G data service
But CPEs and low-end cellphones have low profit
margins.
How can we raise manufacturing values?
WiMAX Represents An Opportunity
for Taiwan
• Relatively new international standards on newly
allocated spectrums
• Data-centric, and capable to providing order of
magnitude performance improvements which
will be clearly noticeable to end users (e.g.,
mbps and multi-point connection)
• Relatively less IP issues (e.g., OFDM)
• New opportunities for rural areas and for highrate data services (e.g., IPTV)
• Can leverage WiFi expertise (e.g., WiFi VoIP)
For these reasons, WiMAX is a technology focus for
the M-Taiwan Program
Taiwan WiMAX Blueprint:
A Technology Roadmap
• The Executive Yuan’s Science &
Technology Advisor Group (STAG) has
published a WiMAX Blueprint in 2005,
which states:
”WiMAX Technology will be a focus for the
future of Taiwan IT industry and will be a
preferred technology option to deliver MService, M-Learning and M-Life in “ M(obile)Taiwan Program”.
• The Blueprint provides guidelines for :
– Product focus for Taiwan industry
– Nationwide R&D projects
– Radio spectrum allocation
MiMAX Technology Development Strategy
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Develop a complete WiMAX ecosystem, including chipset,
CPE, network elements, network planning & integration,
applications and commercial operations. (this is the main
task for the M-Taiwan Program)
Allocate spectrum to support technology and service trials
Focus on new content-oriented service opportunities (e.g.,
“Web 2.0” and IPTV over WiMAX)
Develop integrated WiMAX / Wi-Fi networking to leverage
Taiwan’s strengths in Wi-Fi (e.g., Wi-Fi as access and
WiMAX as backhaul)
Leverage public sponsored basic research & development
projects for development of core technologies (e.g.,
802.16e chipsets, CPE, BTS and system integration
capabilities)
Team up with international players to speed up product and
market development
Leverage strengths in CPE, take an active position in the
standard bodies (e.g., the WiMAX Forum)
Taiwan’s WiMAX CPE Companies
Company
Gemtek
MiTAC
Jstream
CyberTAN
Product
CPE/BS
CPE
CPE
CPE/BS
Status
Notes
Sample ready One of the bigest Wi-Fi product manufacturers
Prototype ready Produce Wi-Fi/GPRS dual mode terminals
Developing
Sample ready for 3.5GHz band in Q2/2006
Planning
Focus on 16e, one of the bigest Wi-Fi product manufaturers
ZyXEL
Microelectronics Technology
Delta Networks
Askey
Accton
Alapha Networks
Wistron NeWeb Corp.
Z-Com
ASUS
Foxconn
CPE/BS
CPE
CPE/BS
CPE
CPE
CPE
CPE
Gateway
CPE
CPE/BS
Sample ready
Sample ready
Sample ready
Planning
Planning
Planning
Developing
Planning
Planning
Sample ready
also interested in BS
also interested in BS
also interested in BS
Sample will be ready in Q2/2006
Manufacture wireless and wireless products
A big Wi-Fi product manufactuer
Sample will be ready in Q1/2006
For Wi-Fi/WiMAX gateway
Focus on 16e, one of the bigest Wi-Fi product manufacturers
also interested in BS, a big PC parts/accessory manufacturer
Spectrum Status in Taiwan
1. 608-680 MHz and 686-710 MHz
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Use for WiMAX experiment under evaluation
2. 3G TDD frequency bands
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Can be used by 3G mobile operators for WiMAX trial or
commercial operation
3. 2.5-2.69 GHz
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Frequency re-farming, cleaning up and licensing
preparation will be completed by the end of 2006
4. 3.4-3.7 GHz frequency band
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A portion of this band is currently used by radio stations
and fixed satellite service (FSS) downlinks. With proper
coordination, the remaining portions may be shared by
WiMAX
5. Unlicensed bands
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Unlicensed bands in accordance with the ITU planning are
2.4 GHz and 5.8 GHz
Taiwan WiMAX Product
Development Timeline
• Taiwan’s WiMAX product development timeline:
– Q4/2005
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802.16-2004 CPE
– Q1/2006
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Wi-Fi WiMAX Gateway
– Q2/2006
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802.16-2004 BTS
– Q2/2007
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802.16e Standard CPE
– Q4/2007
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802.16e Standard BTS
• M-Taiwan network deployment would use these
WiMAX products
Thus, An Overall Strategy Is…
It will take some time before service industries in Taiwan
will become internationally competitive. Thus:
• Immediate goal: Raise the value of manufacturing goods
resulting from integration of services and manufacturing
– E.g., develop high-value dual-mode wireless terminals for both
wireless Internet and cellular phone services, and update
Taiwan’s service environment to refine and showcase these
terminals
• Next-stage goal: Export high-value services in addition to
high-value manufacturing goods
– E.g., develop IT-enhanced services in health-care, distancelearning, and smart transportation systems
Summary and Conclusion
• The M-Taiwan program takes an integrated
approach, encompassing manufacturing,
services, applications and spectrum allocation,
with WiMAX being the technology focus
• The main purpose is to encourage innovations
• The immediate goal is to raise the value of
manufacturing through its integration with
services
• The long-term goal is to nurture next-generation
content-oriented services as envisioned by the
Web 2.0 concept
• Collaboration/partnerships would be most
important in realizing the big vision