The government will work with Taiwan’s communications equipment manufacturers to develop next generation technology, the Council for Economic Planning and Development (CEPD) said on Sunday.
Officials said that although Taiwanese communications industries are good at producing terminal products, they still need to step up their competitive edge in the world market by creating new technologies.
The officials said local communications industries encompass manufacturers of a wide range of products, including smart phones, base stations, WiMAX facilities, satellite navigation systems, wireless local area networks, optical communications facilities, digital set-top boxes, digital subscriber line facilities and phone systems for voice communications over Internet protocol networks.
They cited statistics compiled the Industry Market Intelligence & Consulting Institute (MIC, 產業情報研究所) — a division of the Institute for Information Industry — as showing that Taiwan supplied NT$827.6 billion (US$24.5 billion) worth of communications equipment last year, an increase of 11.7 percent over 2007, although the production declined considerably in the third quarter of last year.
An MIC forecast said Taiwan’s communications equipment production was expected to grow 3 percent this year to reach NT$852.1 billion.
Of that, NT$639.4 billion will be for wireless communications products, representing a growth of 2.3 percent, and the remaining NT$212.7 billion will be for wired products, an increase of 5 percent.
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