January
January eleventh: Taiwan telecom and China Netcom hold “inter-cross three land connected with internet” discussion conference
January twenty third: Sina invites udnnews, SheSay、City-Family, CoolBid.com, Kkcity, Dotcomnet, Openfind, these dealers to gather to constitute U2union and work with Asia Pacific online offering free ISP services)
January twenty eighth: Taiwan telecom network and Taiwan Asia satellite offering VCOD (Video Conference On Demond) wide band display solution scheme-the offering of Taiwan telecom network satellite VSTA service.
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February
February seventh: Chunghwa telecom, unailis, Science Based Industrial Park wide band, cooperate “Unailis Computer Union”, launch software and hardware establish scheme for nearly four thousand internet coffee dealers in Taiwan. Though bandwidth, host factor, and software combinative marketing, internet coffee dealers will be licensed freely, and the three partners will share the benefits.
February twenty seventh: Digital United INC gets monopolization commission of game industry domestic domain name “.game.tw” from TWNIC.
April
April second: Asia Pacific online announces to launch “Asia Pacific wide band web” combining the source of Asia Pacific online, Eastern broadband telecom, Asia Pacific mobile union and provides consumers with four C combined service of Communication, Content, Cable, Computer and web broadband services, besides, makes three main perch of image and sound interactive chat room, image and sound content services, and education online.
April sixteenth: Chunghwa telecom Hinet and Yahoo!Kimo announce to be united for tactic and launch “Yahoo!Kimo and Chunghwa telecom ADSL powered by Hinet” jointly signed broadband service.
April eighteenth: PCCW branch company Taiwan Telecom announced to be united with IS.Net for tactic: share internal internet sources, quota cost sell each other’s services and share benefits.
April twenty ninth: Asia Pacific online and Eastern Mediatechnology Company (EMC) cooperate to get in the network market. Both will broad ADSL and cable modem broadband network business and provide consumers with “once enough” broadband network services.
May
May eighth: The Directorate General of Telecommunications planed to less control current low power license exempted frequency band WLAN and not ask for license or charge. Inside part can be run by ISP dealers who have operation licenses, but outside part is run by current fixed network dealers.
May thirtieth: eASP-Net announced to be united with Save-com for tactic, both will launch (MPLS-VPN) solution scheme. The goal is for inter-cross three land enterprise communication market.
June
June twentieth: Chunghwa brand company HiNet held news conference announced its clients amount three million.
July
July: Seednet started to accept “.game.tw” domain name application. In the beginning stage let the game software industry dealers apply license.
September
September twenty fifth: Giga Media decided run down 17% ad announced that not act positive marketing strategy for ISP business.
October
October First: Seednet fully accept “.game.tw” domain name application and ordinary player can get “.game.tw” domain name and establish TV game related website.
October second: So-net Taiwan announced to cooperate with internal Japanese education magazine to launch EZSchool Japanese education website. After booked as a -net channel member or plug in member, tou can enjoy the content by EZSchool’s member charge system (some content need little payment)
November
November sixth So-net and Yam access site cooperate in the market of WLAN, and So-net clients can use a single account and password for narrowband, broadband and wireless inter-net access.
November nineteenth: First Telecom and Hinet cooperate to launch “111” simple code wireless inter-net access service.
November twentieth: Justice department planed to order ISP dealers must jeep E-mail for ninety days in anti-terror law.
November twentieth eighth: Consumer protection fund passed “inter-net service dial up service contract example draft” addressed by the Directorate General of Telecommunications. If ISP dealers break internet connection without any reason for twelve hours, they will need to indemnify consumers. If the break last over five day, that month will be free.