Does anyone know?
I don’t mean the official Starlink which is apparently not coming here, but Taiwan’s version of it which is being built.
Gotta admit I’m pretty jealous of all those abroad who are able to buy starlinks and head into the middle of the mountains with superfast internet.
Upfront equipment costs and monthly fees are heavy for Starlink.
ASTS will become a better solution and service all cell providers in the US with as-you-use fees.
What’s that? Is that coming to Taiwan?
It’s coming to India, Japan (successful test with Rakuten Phone), and other countries eventually, but timewise you probably should do Taiwan’s starlink version as likely to the market earlier.
It is already used by the government in a testing environment. Not made for personal use.
Anyone know any updates on this? I wish we had starlink, very envious of the people in the countries that have it!
We will have it the day after China attacks.
Still same dead lock like in South Africa and Namibia where local majority ownership is required for that.
Since Starlink won’t change their policy of 100% ownership, it is up to the local politicians to pass legislation that allows exceptions to the current law (Article 36 of the Telecommunications Management Act).
In Taiwan the LY is currently largely ineffective because the ruling party does not have necessary majority to pass anything meaningful.
I’d expect there’s more than a few (legal) ways around that, e.g. Malaysia has similar but there are options. 
First up is Taiwan Mobile.
Oh wow this actually sounds pretty great! Looking forward to this.
It’s useful for hiking and sailing I guess. Any reasons you need this in Taiwan ? Mobile coverage is generally really good .
Coverage can come in a few forms. The cell carriers may have pay-as-you-use for X amount of days for full coverage (would be incremental, like paying X amount for Y gigabytes of extra data), or just tack on coverage for free under current billing in order to promote 100% coverage. The end user will just have to deal with cell carrier and Not a separate company like Starlink.
Yes, this will help for areas currently without coverage, like deserts, mountains, and ocean. Forest firefighters and EMTers will also be using it for the complete coverage.
If this fails then AST SpaceMobile plans are toast 
Blue Origin’s New Glenn mission placed AST SpaceMobile’s BlueBird 7 satellite into an incorrect orbit, leading to the satellite de orbiting
AST SpaceMobile Addresses Today’s Orbital Launch of BlueBird 7 on the New Glenn Launch Vehicle
[!quote] @SpaceX
Deployment of 25 Starlink satellites confirmed
Apr 20, 2026
https://x.com/SpaceX/status/2045913150827225527
Is that covered by insurance? 
For extended hikes in the mountains.
The arguments from politicians are not very convincing. Mobile networks can’t replace satellite connectivity.
And the censorship ambitions to avoid fraud are lame. Fraud is still very present in Taiwan, the government won’t win this game of cat and mouse.
We don’t need same censorship as China to fight crime.
Looks like some insider local business groups are lobbying hard to try and get a monopoly on satellite services , bs arguments about cybercrime. We have seen this playbook in so many industries here.
We need a choice of various satellite providers for defense purposes as well as to lower costs.
I can’t believe some people are pining to let yet another company operated by this clown in. Since some people seem to have forgotten:
Guy
