The Government Information Office (GIO) and Directorate General of Telecommunications (DGT) awarded six licences to public and commercial broadcasters on national and regional levels in 2005. Regulation is managed by the National Communications Commission (NCC). NCC issued licences in 2005 and stipulated that each broadcaster must supply at least one free service per multiplex (others can be subscription). Also broadcasters must supply one public information service and at least 50% of the bandwidth must be assigned for audio services.

Six commercial broadcasters have been granted licences; three national DAB licence holders: BCC, Formosa and PC Radio and three regional licence holders (with more planned in the future): Taiyi and SuperFM in the north plus Best Radio in the south. Taiyi will shortly start a DAB commercial service. Although RTI, the public broadcaster, did not receive a licence, it transmits DRM regionally and leases DAB transmitting equipments to other licensed broadcasters.

The regulator has yet to publish the regulations with regard to mobile TV.

Previous trials undertaken by BCC (formerly the public broadcaster, now the commercial broadcaster) had a network of transmitters to cover 90% of the population, whilst the commercial operators have, so far, mainly concentrated on Taipei city only.

In this country there are

• National multiplexes: 1 Regular and 1 Trial