Chen points out that when the Taiwan cell phone market was first opened, demand was already high. But because the Directorate General of Telecommunications only made a limited number of phone numbers available, as of the end of 1997 there were only about 1.5 million cell phones in use, while more than one million people were on the waiting list.
他說，雖然台灣行動電話市場自開放初期需求度就很高，但由於電信局提供門號的限制，一直到九七年底，使用者人數還只有一百五十幾萬戶，而排隊等門號的人卻高達一百多萬戶。