Which telecom operator has more mobile base station licenses? NCC recently announced the latest number of 4G and 5G base station licenses in Taiwan in June 2026. The overall number of base station licenses was 125,990, an increase of 424 from the previous month. The number of 5G and 4G base station licenses increased slightly, and the proportion of 5G base station licenses increased to 52.6%.
What are the recent changes in the number of mobile base station licenses in Taiwan? What are the license numbers of the three major telecommunications mobile base stations? The following is a summary and analysis:
After the telecommunications merger, the number of mobile broadband base station licenses in Taiwan dropped month by month, especially the number of 4G base station licenses. Fortunately, after the merger of Telecom, the revenue and profits of the three major telecoms have been outstanding. From 2026, the number of 4G and 5G base station licenses of the three major telecoms has increased slightly.. The following is a summary video and detailed analysis of the latest mobile base station license numbers of the three telecommunications companies in 2026 announced by the NCC:
1. The latest changes in the number of mobile base station licenses in Taiwan:
According to the latest announcement by NCCNumber of mobile broadband base station licenses, statistics toOn June 30, 2026, the number of 4G base station licenses was 59,742 and the number of 5G base station licenses was 66,248, totaling 125,990. The overall number of licenses increased by 424 from the previous month (4G+56; 5G+368). The number of 5G licenses accounted for 52.6% of the total number of licenses.
Looking at each county and city, the top five new base station licenses are Pingtung County (+111 licenses), Kaohsiung City (+56 licenses), Hsinchu County (+41 licenses), Tainan City (+39 licenses), Yilan County (+27 licenses); the top five new 5G base station licenses are Pingtung County (+99 licenses), Taichung City (+41 licenses), Tainan City (+31 licenses), Kaohsiung City (+27 licenses), and Yilan County (+25 licenses).
The overall number of 5G base station licenses is 66,248, accounting for 52.6%. The top five counties and cities with 5G base station licenses are Hsinchu City (58.5%), Taoyuan City (56%), Chiayi City (55.3%), and New Taipei City (54.9%) ), Keelung City (54.3%); the bottom five 5G base stations are Kinmen County (38.6%), Taitung County (44.1%), Pingtung County (47.1%), Penghu County (49.2%), and Chiayi County (49.7%).
Judging from mobile base station statistics for the past six months, the number of 4G base station licenses has decreased significantly since the telecommunications merger was finalized at the end of 2023. After the 3G signal was shut down on June 30, 2024, the number of 4G base station licenses has gone from bad to worse.Since 3G base stations were reclassified as “4G general base stations” for 4G heterogeneous networks in 2018, starting from December 31, 2025, the number of 4G base station licenses counted by the NCC no longer include “4G general base stations” (formerly 3G base stations). There are only 58,905 4G base stations left in Taiwan, which were lost to 5G base stations for the first time. After users’ “right to know” was taken seriously, the number of base station licenses in Taiwan finally stopped falling and rebounded in 2026. Statistics show that as of June 2026, the overall number of mobile base station licenses has increased to 125,990!
In terms of the proportion of 5G base station licenses and the number of 5G mobile users, statistics show that as of May 2026, the overall number of 5G mobile base station licenses accounted for 52.5%, which is higher than the proportion of 5G user licenses at 43.3%.
2. Number of licenses for the three major telecommunications mobile base stations:
According to the latest information announced by the NCC, as of June 30, 2026, Chunghwa Telecom has the largest number of base station licenses with 50,450 (+391 from the previous month), Taiwan Mobile has 38,458 base station licenses (+43 from the previous month), and Far EasTone Telecom has 37,082 (-10 from the previous month).
Judging from the statistics of the overall number of base station licenses in 2026, the overall number of base stations increased slightly in June by 2.1% compared with January. The number of 5G base station licenses increased by 2.9% and 4G base station licenses increased by 1.2%; Chunghwa Telecom increased the most by 3.3%, followed by Taiwan Mobile’s 2% and Far EasTone’s 0.6%. Since there is still a gap in the number of users of the three major telecommunications companies, the ratio of the number of base station licenses to the number of users is still within a reasonable range.
Regarding the number of 5G base station licenses, Chunghwa Telecom has the largest number of licenses with 26,320, an increase of 315 from the previous month; Taiwan Mobile is second with 20,187 licenses, an increase of 28 from the previous month; Far EasTone Telecommunications has 19,741 licenses, an increase of 25 from the previous month.
In terms of the proportion of 5G base stations of the three major telecoms, after excluding the number of original 3G base station licenses in December last year, the proportion of 5G base stations of the three major telecoms exceeded 52%, which is already between the two!
As digital life has penetrated deeply into the daily lives of Taiwanese people, the average data traffic used by each user continues to increase. The construction layout of mobile network of telecom operators has a huge impact on the rights and interests of users. According to the revenue and profit status announced by telecom operators in the first half of 2026, after Taiwan returned to the telecom oligopoly market, the revenue and profits of telecom operators have hit new highs. It can be seen that the merger of telecoms has brought stable market competition. In addition, the NCC currently responsible for supervision is leaderless. The three major telecoms have spare capacity to accelerate the construction of mobile networks. We can only hope that the three major telecommunications companies can continue to expand the infrastructure of mobile networks and improve user satisfaction!
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