TFN
Taiwan Fixed Network (TFN) has a capital of NT$
92.2 billion, and the major shareholders include
Taiwan Cellular Corp., Pacific Group, Evergreen
Group, Acer Group, Fubon Group, Continental Construction
Group, Yageo, Compal Group, ASE Group, Foxconn
Precision, China Development, and Hsin Kwong Group,
etc.
TFN bases on the brand new optical fiber to
construct 3 routes and the wideband 400Gigabyte
transmission backbone around the island, and
adopts the diversified access interface of the
user circuit equipment to provide voice, modem
service, and other multimedia value-added service.
At present, the whole network system architecture
includes the efficient and flexible voice switchboard,
modem switchboard, and IP exchange network equipment,
and the SDH and DWDM optical transmission network
equipment, and the diversified wideband access
networking equipment. The products and services
introduced by TFN include voice service, intellectual
value-added service, modem circuit service,
network information center service, modem service,
Internet service, network information center,
and e-corporation services, etc.
TFN completed the constructions for 150,000
users accounts and communication ports in February
of 2001. In March of the same year, TFN forged
into a strategic alliance with Taiwan Cellular
Corp., and the consumers in Taiwan can apply
for various wideband telecommunications services
through 28 direct service centers of Taiwan
Cellular and 336 contracted service centers
in Taiwan. In June of the same year, TFN entered
into an agreement with 14 million mobile phone
users under 5 major private mobile telephone
companies for the interconnected networking.
In August of the same year, TFN announced its
original simple application for the local “Telephone
call in for the 006 Taiwan international direct
dial and the 1806 domestic long-distance call
service”. In November of the same year, TFN
completed the upgraded construction of linking
TANet with the American Internet connection
service.
In January of 2002, the APCS personal network
communication service by Taiwan Wideband Net
under TFN was introduced, and in March of the
same year, TFN merged GCNet with 51% of the
shares. In May of the same year, TFN establishes
a telecommunication group led by TFN and Taiwan
Cellular, and built a general management division
to coordinate the companies including companies
such as TAT, Howin Technologies, Elitec Corporation,
Taiwan Yellow Page, Taiwan Telcom, Taiwan Customer
Service, Twindex and GCNet, etc. In August of
the same year, the e-product “Corporate e-Manager
EIP@net” was designed for corporate users. In
September of the same year, the two domain names:
ebiz.tw and club.tw were granted for their proprietary
business operation.

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