Taiwan Market: FET mobile communication users to reach 7 million at end of 2012, says executive

Far EasTone Telecommunications (FET), one of the three largest mobile telecom carriers in Taiwan, expects its number of mobile communication subscribers to increase to seven million, and mobile Internet-access subscribers to two million at the end of 2012, according to company executive vice president of marketing Benjamin Ho.

FET expects to procure 1.5 million handsets for contract-bundled sale in 2012, 0.9-1.0 million of which will be smartphones, Ho indicated. As contract-bundled sales of tablets have been better than originally expected, FET has upward adjusted target sales of tablets in 2012 to 160,000-170,000 units, Ho said.

S Mart, FET's online store for mobile applications, has more than 4,000 applications and has recorded a cumulative total of 3.5 million downloads to date, Ho indicated.

Article translated by Adam Hwang