People in Taiwan can access 5G services at relatively cheap rates compared with other advanced countries, National Communications Commission (NCC) Chairman Chen Yaw-shyang (???) yesterday told lawmakers at a meeting of the legislature’s Transportation Committee. Although Chen was there to brief lawmakers about the commission’s budget plan for the next fiscal year, they asked him mostly about his meeting with telecom executives on Thursday last week, where he was expected to convey legislators’ expectations that telecoms would boost the 5G penetration rate nationwide by lowering monthly fees. Four of Taiwan’s five large telecoms charge NT$1,399 per month for an unlimited...