NCC (National Communications Commission) has announced the second phase auction for 4G spectrums in Taiwan, with the base price of the auction set at NT$14.4 billion (US$1=NT$31.26), reported Economic Daily News on July 23. Five telecom operators are expected to bid for a total of 190 MHz bandwidth—separated into six blocks—in 2.5GHz and 2.6GHz. Four of the blocks are suitable to deploy both FDD-LTE (Frequency Division Duplexing-Long Term Evolution) and TD-LTE (Time Division-Long Term Evolution) technologies. NCC plans to issue commercial licenses by end-2015. Currently, Taiwan has over six million 4G subscribers with an average data usage of 10GB to 14GB per month.