The Chunghwa Telecom (CH) and Taicom Data jointly promoted ISDN service project has been signed into contract by Chunghwa Telecom VP Chen Rui-hsiung and Taicom's President Tseng Huan-sheng. Subscribers may apply for the service beginning November this year.

Under the arrangement, the ISDN circuit is to be provided by CH's ISDN exchange and is connected with the subscriber's terminal adapter (TA) through the conventional telephone line. Since the TA possesses two 64KB channels, it offers the subscriber a second telephone line, allowing users to be linked on-line one the one hand and, on the other hand, chat with friend over the phone. In addition, all value-added functions such as G4 fax, display of incoming calls, re-connection of incoming calls, call waiting, follow-up of incoming calls, three-party conferencing, and video conferencing are the very fundamental functions that come with the ISDN service.

The fee for the CH/Taicom ISDN all-in-one service is NT$3,999 that includes an ISDN number + hi-net.com subscription and excludes the refundable NT$3,000 deposit. Until January 31, 2000, all subscribers may enjoy this low-cost high-quality on-line service at CH's service centers.

Subscription for the ISDN service is available at 252 service centers of CH's northern, central and southern branch offices, island-wide T-Zone stores, Tomorrow World stores, KS 3C stores, and NOVA sales floors.