Taipei, May 12, 2010 (CENS)-Taiwan Mobile Corp. and China Unicom Communications Group Co., Ltd. will jointly launch a mobile roaming service that is advantageous to travelers in Taiwan and mainland China.
The service, according to the companies, will charge the travelers on local-connection basis, not on international-connection basis, which is currently the principle on which mobile-service providers charge roaming-service customers.
The service is estimated to halve the NT$12-13 per minute currently for mobile calls delivered across the Taiwan Straits.
Industry executives expect Taiwan`s other mobile-service providers including Chunghwa Telecom Co., Ltd., Far EasTone Telecom Co., Ltd. and Vibo Telecom Inc. to follow suit soon after the Taiwan Mobile-China Unicom deal.
According to statistics recently released by Tourist Bureau of Taiwan`s Ministry of Transportation and Communications (MOTC), last year alone approximately 4.48 million Taiwanese travelled to the mainland and around 970,000 mainland Chinese travelled to Taiwan. The mainland traveler number represented a 195.3% increase from a year earlier.
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