Chunghwa Telecom

Headquarters: Taipei, Taiwan

Year Founded: 1996

Aliases: N/A

Overview

Chunghwa Telecom Company, Ltd. (中華電信股份有限公司) is the largest telecommunications company in Taiwan and the incumbent local exchange carrier of PSTN, Mobile, and broadband services in the country.

Chunghwa Telecom was founded as a company on June 15, 1996 as part of the Taiwanese government's privatization efforts. Prior to this, it was operated as a business unit of the Directorate General of Telecommunications for over 100 years. In August 2005, Chunghwa Telecom became a privatized company, with the Taiwan government's ownership reduced to less than 50%.

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