Who has more 4G or 5G mobile base stations in Taiwan? According to the latest 4G and 5G base station license numbers in Taiwan released by the NCC, the total number of base station licenses in Taiwan in April 2026 was 124,879, an increase of 841 from the previous month. 5G base stations accounted for 52.3% of all base station licenses. However, the currently leaderless NCC does not know whether it is due to deliberate laziness of the bureaucracy or the reason why it is protecting telecom operators and has once again blocked the public data on the number of base station licenses of each telecom operator, returning to its old ways.
Taiwan mobile base station 4G and 5G latest in 2026What is the number of licenses? The following is a summary and analysis:
According to the latest NCC announcement of the number of 4G and 5G base station licenses in Taiwan (April 31, 2026), the number of 4G base station licenses is 59,596 and the number of 5G base station licenses is 65,283, totaling 124,879. The overall number of licenses increased by 841 compared to the previous month (4G+342; 5G+499). The proportion of the overall 5G base station licenses increased from 52.2% in March to 52.3% in April. The number of 4G and 5G base station licenses and the overall number of base station licenses continued to grow.
Judging from the changes in the overall number of base stations in each county and city, the top five in the total number of new base station licenses are New Taipei City (+139 licenses), Taipei City (+136 licenses), Kaohsiung City (+117 licenses), Taoyuan City (+85 licenses), and Tainan City (+ 76 licenses), Taichung City (+55 licenses); the top five counties and cities with the smallest increase in the overall number of licenses are Penghu County (+0 licenses), Lianjiang County (+1 licenses), Kinmen County (+1 licenses), Keelung City (+3 licenses), and Nantou County (+5 licenses). Compared with the number of base station licenses last month, it is basically related to the population of each county and city!
In terms of the proportion of 5G base station licenses in each county and city, the top five with the highest proportion of 5G base station licenses are Hsinchu City (58.2%), Taoyuan City (55.7%), Chiayi City (55.3%), New Taipei City (54.6%), and Taipei City (53.9%); the top five counties and cities with the lowest proportion of 5G base station licenses are Kinmen County (38.4%), Taitung County (43.8%), Pingtung County (46.2%), Chiayi County (49.6%), and Penghu County (49.7%); The top five new 5G base station licenses compared to last month are Kaohsiung City (+75 licenses), New Taipei City (+74 licenses), Taipei City (+65 licenses), Tainan City (+51 licenses), and Taoyuan City (+44 licenses).
Judging from mobile base station statistics for the past six months, since December 31, 2025, the number of 4G base station licenses counted by the NCC no longer includes “4G general base stations” (formerly 3G base stations), leaving only 58,905 4G base stations in Taiwan, which was lost to 5G base stations for the first time. After the Fair Council intervened in January this year to raise concerns about mobile users’ “right to know,” the number of base station licenses in Taiwan has stopped falling and rebounded!
According to the latest mobile phone user numbers in Taiwan released by the NCC (2026/03), the total number of mobile phone users is 28.334 million, the number of 5G users is 12.059 million, and the number of 5G users accounts for 42.6%. The proportion of 5G base stations remains at 52.2%. It can be seen that telecom operators have made advance arrangements for the addition of base stations and maintains it at 52.2%~52.5%. The proportion of 5G users is increasing month by month at 0.3%~0.5%!
What are the latest mobile base station license numbers of the three major telecommunications companies in 2026?
At the beginning of the year, Internet celebrities cited base station statistics from moderators to reveal a significant decrease in the number of 4G base station licenses, which caused an uproar from the outside world. The NCC announced the base station license statistics of the three major telecommunications companies in the first two months of this year. However, since March, the NCC has returned to its old ways and once again blocked the number of base station licenses of the three major telecom operators. It is currently impossible to know the latest status of the number of base station licenses of the three major telecom operators.
As digital life has penetrated deeply into the daily lives of Taiwanese people, the layout of mobile network construction by telecom operators has a huge impact on the rights and interests of users. With the latest financial reports of the three major telecommunications companies reporting record profits, we can only once again call on the NCC not to cancel the number of base station licenses of telecom operators and sacrifice the “right to know” that mobile phone users should have!
Source: KOCPC Chinese