The Executive Yuan finally announced the latest nomination list of seven members of the National Communications Commission (NCC) on July 24, 2026. However, the terms of the current three members will expire on July 31, 2026. In accordance with current regulations and the Legislative Yuan review process, it has become an established fact that the NCC members will be temporarily eliminated starting from August this year.
Since taking the lead in shutting down the Zhongtian Channel, the NCC has become the target of public criticism. In addition, as a regulatory agency, it is not popular. Mainstream public opinion generally supports the group’s elimination of the NCC. Should the NCC be eliminated? What are the pros and cons of annihilating the NCC committee? Let’s discuss it below:
Should the opposition legislators continue to boycott the appointment of NCC members and take advantage of the situation to abolish the NCC? NCC members may have difficulty giving birth, but the NCC organization will not be eliminated. Although the appointment of NCC members has always been considered to be just a teapot storm in the fight for political governance, the NCC is the highest competent authority for communications, telecommunications, radio and television in Taiwan. The failure of the NCC committee to convene normally will cause the essence of Taiwan’s telecommunications, radio and television supervision and governance to be hollowed out. It has already resulted in the damage of consumer rights protection being covered by the indifference of bureaucrats who have repeatedly disturbed the people and the inability to supervise, presenting a three-lose situation. What is the impact of NCC members being wiped out? The following is a summary video and detailed explanation:
1. Executive Yuan’s latest NCC member nominees:
The terms of NCC acting chairman Chen Chongshu, committee members Wang Zhengjia and Wang Yihui will expire on July 31, 2026. Although the Executive Yuan is required by law to nominate new members three months before the expiration of members’ terms, due to serious conflicts between the government and the opposition, nominees have been repeatedly boycotted, making it difficult to select new members. The Executive Yuan finally announced the latest list of seven NCC member nominations on July 24, 2026, including the nomination of Yuan Xiuhui as chairman and Xiao Ping as deputy chairman, and sent the list letter to the Legislative Yuan for review to resolve existing vacancies and term expiration issues. However, as the current opposition between the government and the opposition becomes more serious due to the upcoming local elections, there is a high chance that all new nominated members will be rejected. Not only has it become an established fact that NCC members will be temporarily exterminated starting from August this year, but it is still uncertain whether the NCC committee can be reconvened in the future.
2.The impact of NCC committee’s difficult delivery:
The NCC is the highest competent authority for communications, telecommunications, and radio and television in Taiwan. Its core responsibilities are to maintain fair competition in the communications market, inspect telecommunications equipment such as wireless and Bluetooth, manage radio, television, and telecommunications businesses, and protect consumer rights. The elimination of the NCC committee does not mean that the huge professional bureaucratic organization under the jurisdiction of the NCC agency has been eliminated.
In view of the possibility that the NCC committee members would have difficulty giving birth due to a major conflict between the opposition government and the opposition government, the NCC had adjusted its internal organizational law in the past to authorize internal units to be responsible for some of the original NCC committee business in different layers (the first level of decision-making), so as to minimize the impact of the inability to convene the NCC committee. However, according to the NCC Organic Law, the NCC Committee is still responsible for 114 tasks, including legal and policy modifications, radio and television program content reduction and penalty cases, Channel 4 license replacement cases, etc.According to NCC statistics, since December 1, 2013, the NCC has only three members left, with a total of 17,787 cases, 17,298 decided cases, and 489 cases that have been left for review by committee meetings for more than a year, including revisions to regulations, application for license renewal in the broadcasting industry, changes in cable radio and television operation plans, review of program content, etc. After the NCC committee is eliminated by the Communist Party in August, it will have the following three major impacts on the public and policies:
A. Product review and launch:
Since NCC has signed an administrative entrustment contract with relevant radio frequency equipment verification agencies, and has also signed mutual recognition test report agreements with the United States, Canada, Singapore and other countries, it will not affect the launch of mobile phones and radio frequency equipment such as iPhone 18 in the short term. If the stuck time is too long and the entrustment validity period (3 years) is exceeded, subsequent new equipment inspections will come to a standstill.
2. Committee meetings and policy decisions:
The NCC is unable to convene committee meetings, and all cases that require collegial resolutions (more than 500 cases in total), such as radio and television media license renewal, major administrative sanctions, and controversial program content sanctions, will be blocked. Although daily complaints against the content of TV programs can be received normally, substantive hearings and subsequent penalties must wait until the new committee members take office.
3. Political impact from the ruling and opposition parties:
An NCC member is having difficulty giving birth. In order to safeguard public rights and effectively promote policies, it is currently rumored that the Executive Yuan plans to follow the “Prosecutor General model”. During the gap between the NCC’s collapse, a high-level internal civil servant designated by the Executive Yuan (such as the new NCC chief secretary Wen Junyu) will temporarily act as the chairman of the committee to maintain basic administrative operations. The independent agencies have become essentially empty shells, causing opposition parties and academic circles to question the excessive interference of administrative power and the lack of democratic supervision mechanisms.
3. Should the NCC be eliminated?
Although the current mainstream opinions from the outside world believe that the NCC’s functions are ineffective and support the elimination of the NCC, NCC members can have difficulty giving birth. The NCC is the highest competent authority for communications, telecommunications, and radio and television in Taiwan. Its responsibilities and business will not disappear. NCC members continue to have difficult labor, and the moderator believes that there will be the following negative impacts:
A. The virtualization of independent agencies into empty shells is actually allowing bureaucrats to disturb the people and interfere with administrative power:
NCC is mainly in charge of communications, telecommunications and radio and television business. It used to be subordinate to the Ministry of Transport and the Information Bureau (now changed to the Ministry of Culture). In the past, it became an independent agency after considering the lack of democratic supervision mechanism. If the NCC disappears, its operations will be returned to the Executive Yuan, and the Legislative Yuan will lose its oversight mechanism.
What is even more troublesome is that in the absence of NCC members who must face public supervision, the current NCC bureaucratic organization often lacks sensitivity to public opinion and blindly implements policies that disturb the people. For example, promoting the addition of a 750 yuan review fee for overseas mailing of 3C products, requiring police report certificates for lost SIM reissues, and urban resilience drills for network obstruction drills… etc. have caused a lot of public backlash.
B. The supervision of independent agencies is incompetent, and the protection of consumer rights is in the dust:
The main core responsibility of the NCC is to safeguard fair competition in the communications market and public interests in the radio and television market as well as the rights and interests of viewers. However, since the NCC committee was unable to be convened smoothly, the number and amount of sanctions imposed on telecom operators and radio and television content by the NCC has dropped significantly, which has upset the telecom operators and radio and television operators that were originally supervised.
According to NCC statistics, the number of Taiwanese radio and television operators fined by the NCC every year has dropped from hundreds to 20 to 30 million, which has been cut in half to about 50 cases and about 6 million each year. The number of cases may be halved again this year. But has Taiwan’s radio and television content really become of higher quality? Has there been less fake news?
Furthermore, since last year, telecom operators have canceled distribution channels to accept 4G all-you-can-eat tariffs and have gradually increased the monthly rental fees for 4G all-you-can-eat tariffs and significantly reduced subsidies for code-carrying phone purchases, the poor network speed performance after telecom mergers, the theory of 4G nail-biters… and other controversies, there is no one to supervise, and the revenue and profits of telecom operators have hit new highs!
The reason is that if the NCC imposes a fine of more than NT$500,000 (inclusive) on the regulated industry, the matters are reserved for review by the committee meeting and must be resolved by the committee meeting, resulting in serious violations of the industry being unable to be punished. Without the supervision of NCC members, only bureaucrats are obsessed with the implementation of telecom fraud prevention policies, and the supervision function is incompetent, leaving the protection of consumer rights in the dust.
All in all, the NCC is originally an administrative organization responsible for supervising telecommunications and broadcasting. The public or opposition legislators resist the appointment of NCC members, which only returns power to administrative unit bureaucrats to dominate. Not only can it not change the shortcomings of administrative bureaucracy, but it also allows the tiger’s teeth to be pulled out, and the industries under supervision are amused, resulting in a three-lose situation.
The moderator has long been concerned about the development of Taiwan’s telecommunications industry, and in the past he was very critical of the NCC. Since telecommunications and radio and television businesses are closely related to people’s livelihood needs, the lesser of two evils is the lesser of two evils. The moderator still calls on the opposition legislators to appoint NCC members on a merit-based basis, so that the NCC committee can still operate normally, and then use public opinion to supervise the NCC. This is the blessing of the public!
Source: KOCPC Chinese