Chunghwa Telecom Multimedia-on-Demand subscribers stable in 1Q10

Friday, April 30th, 2010
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TAIPEI, Taiwan, R.O.C. — Chunghwa Telecom Co., Ltd. (TAIEX: 2412, NYSE: CHT) (“Chunghwa” or “the Company”), today reported its operating results for the first quarter of 2010.

Broadband/HiNet Business

Total broadband subscribers were 4.3 million as of March 31, 2010. Chunghwa continued its effort to migrate ADSL subscribers to FTTx solutions. By the end of the first quarter of 2010, there were 1.74 million FTTx subscribers, accounting for 40.4% of Chunghwa’s total broadband subscriber base. By the end of the first quarter 2010, the number of ADSL and FTTx subscribers with a service speed greater than 8 Mbps reached 2.1 million, representing 48.8% of total broadband subscribers, compared to 39.0% at the end of the first quarter of 2009.

HiNet subscribers totaled 4.07 million at the end of the first quarter of 2010, growth of 6,545 compared to the end of 2009.

MOD/IPTV subscribers (thousands):

Mar 08  Jun 08  Sep 08  Dec 08  Mar 09  Jun 09  Sep 09  Dec 09  Mar 10
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   435     508     591     676     686     660     668     667     665

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