In a public seminar on April 30 2010, Tian-Lai Deng, the director general of the Ministry of Transportation and Communications's Department of Post and Telecommunications, announced a plan to release at least five new licences for fourth-generation (4G) mobile technologies. Deng said that in order to consolidate the telecommunications market, it was reasonable to maintain three large operators in Taiwan's telecommunications market. Many seminar participants believed that this decision would squeeze the room for smaller operators to obtain 4G licences in future bidding process.
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