TaiwanTelecomTransform · $200K
Chunghwa Telecom

The incumbent that serves all of Taiwan — agentic service across Chunghwa's mobile, broadband and legacy estate

Chunghwa serves every Taiwanese demographic across every service generation — 5G plans to copper-line legacies — which makes its service estate the island's largest and its queues the most linguistically and generationally complex; an agentic frontline fluent in Traditional Chinese and Taiwanese Hokkien that resolves billing, technical and bundle servicing in-conversation modernizes the incumbent's cost base while honoring the universal-service identity its government-linked heritage demands.

Entry use case
Converged billing and plan service line (mobile, broadband, MOD bundles)
Expected outcome
Resolve bundle-billing and plan servicing in-conversation across the island's largest subscriber base, cutting per-contact cost while Hokkien-preferring customers gain automated service for the first time.
Recommended next step
Formal briefing with consumer-business and technology leadership: scope a benchmarked pilot on the converged billing line with Hokkien voice acceptance testing, structured for the incumbent's procurement process.
What we understand

Chunghwa Telecom's operating reality

Chunghwa Telecom is Taiwan's incumbent and largest operator across mobile, fixed broadband and fixed-line, partially government-owned with heritage as the former state monopoly.

Public fact

Chunghwa runs its own research arm (Chunghwa Telecom Laboratories) and has public AI initiatives, including work on Taiwanese-language technologies and enterprise AI services.

Public fact

Its customer base spans every demographic — including rural and elderly segments where Taiwanese Hokkien is the preferred service language, served today by bilingual human agents.

Reasoned inference

The legacy estate (copper, MOD, bundled contracts) generates service complexity younger mobile-only rivals do not carry.

Reasoned inference

As a government-linked incumbent, Chunghwa faces public-service expectations and procurement formality that shape any AI vendor engagement.

Reasoned inference

Enterprise and public-sector contracts add B2B service volume with SLA obligations on top of the consumer estate.

Public fact

Validate with the account team before outreach: Chunghwa Telecom Laboratories' own conversational-AI work and internal-platform ambitions · Procurement route and government-linked vendor requirements · Actual billing and triage volumes by language preference · Truck-roll rates and avoidable-dispatch share

Build vs buy

Why we have a right to win here

Partner-led target

Technically capable but needs industry workflows, integration, acceleration, or managed operations

Evidence: Chunghwa has genuine internal capability — its Laboratories arm works on AI including Taiwanese-language technology and sells enterprise AI services — but incumbent scale and legacy complexity mean frontline modernization moves faster with a proven platform benchmarked alongside internal work; partner-led, with Laboratories as a technical counterpart rather than a competitor.

Why they won't build the full stack: The incumbent's own AI resources are spread across enterprise products, network intelligence and research mandates; concentrating them on frontier-grade consumer voice automation would take years the cost base cannot wait, while a bought layer delivers Hokkien-capable service now and gives Laboratories a production benchmark to build against.

What management is signalling

Chunghwa Telecom's results emphasize steady core-business performance with growth investments in AI, cloud and enterprise ICT services.

Reported factrecent investor communications · 2025-2026

GTM implication: Frame frontline automation as the consumer-side expression of the AI strategy management already reports — modernizing its own estate with the technologies it sells.

As a partially government-owned incumbent, Chunghwa maintains dividend stability and cost discipline as persistent investor themes.

Inferencerecent investor communications (validate) · 2025-2026

GTM implication: Position per-contact economics as dividend-protecting cost modernization — the incumbent's structural answer to leaner mobile-only rivals.

What already exists (don't pitch this)
  • Chunghwa app and web self-service across mobile, broadband and MOD
  • Chunghwa Telecom Laboratories with AI research including Taiwanese-language work
  • LINE official-account channels and island-wide retail estate
  • Enterprise AI and cloud services sold to Taiwanese businesses
What customers still can't do end-to-end (pitch this)
  • →Voice automation in Taiwanese Hokkien for the segments that need it most
  • →In-conversation bundle transactions across billing generations
  • →Diagnostic triage reducing avoidable truck rolls
  • →Elastic capacity for the island's largest billing peaks
Opportunity map

Where agentic communications pays off first

WorkflowWhy it matters hereValueComplexitySpeedChannels
Converged billing and plan service line
Bundle billing and plan changes resolved in-conversation in the customer's preferred language including Hokkien; peaks absorbed elastically.
Bundle billing across mobile, broadband and MOD is the incumbent's structural volume — highest frequency, legacy-complex, cost-heavy.
Friction today: Bundle questions span billing generations; plan changes break between app and phone; billing-cycle peaks queue the island's largest base.
VoiceApp chatLINE
Broadband and MOD technical triage
Patient, language-matched diagnosis with line data; guided fixes in-conversation; truck rolls reserved for genuine faults.
Home-connectivity and television issues drive the longest handle times and avoidable truck rolls across the island's largest fixed estate.
Friction today: Scripted triage misdiagnoses; elderly customers struggle with self-service diagnostics; dispatches roll for software-fixable issues.
VoiceLINEApp chat
Senior and universal-service desk
Unhurried, Hokkien-capable service that resolves simple tasks by voice — universal service made economically sustainable.
The incumbent's identity includes serving customers every rival deprioritizes — rural, elderly, Hokkien-first.
Friction today: Elderly callers get IVR trees in Mandarin; family members call on their behalf; simple tasks need branch visits.
Voice
Watch the change

Converged billing and plan service line (mobile, broadband, MOD bundles): today vs the agentic model

Scenario: A 72-year-old in Yunlin calls about a bill that rose after his MOD promotion ended; the agent explains the change in unhurried Taiwanese Hokkien, re-prices the bundle to the approved senior plan, executes the change and schedules a confirmation call his daughter can join — the universal-service promise kept, at automated economics.
Today
same interaction, two worlds
Agentic layer
Languages served
2–3 staffed
10+ in one deployment
Platform capability
Cost per contact
$13.50 median assisted
$1.84 median self-service
Benchmark
QA coverage
1–2% sampled
100% scored
Platform capability
Sources & assumptions
  • · Languages served: Platform capability: Gemini + Chirp speech
  • · Cost per contact: Gartner customer service cost benchmarks, 2024
  • · QA coverage: Platform capability: every interaction logged and evaluated
  • · Gartner, customer service cost benchmarks (2024): $13.50 median assisted vs $1.84 self-service per contact
  • · McKinsey, digital-first collections research: 20–25% NPL reduction among leaders; up to 40% opex reduction with gen AI
  • · Baymard Institute: ~70% average cart abandonment (meta-analysis)
  • · IAMAI–Kantar via IBEF (2025): 900M+ Indian internet users; 98% consume Indic-language content
  • · LeadSquared and vendor funnel studies: 78% of students choose the first institution to respond (directional, vendor data)
  • · HDI / ITSM operator benchmarks: $15–25 per L1 ticket; 40–60% of L1 volume is resets/status (validate per customer)
  • · Conventional-flow wait times and volumes are typical operator patterns — assumptions to replace with the customer's own baseline
  • · Agentic-flow behaviors (context retention, 100% logging, in-line policy checks) are platform capabilities, not projections
Recommended solution

One integrated stack, opinionated for this account

Channels · Tilicho Labs
VoiceApp chatLINE

Voice & channel orchestration, telephony, conversational execution, session/state, routing, integration build. Capability coverage validated during implementation.

Intelligence · Google Cloud
Gemini reasoningEnterprise groundingWorkflow agentsMulti-agent orchestrationGoverned actionsEvaluation & analytics
Systems · Chunghwa Telecom
BSS/billingCRMSubscription managementNetwork diagnosticsField-service dispatch

API access to these systems is the critical-path dependency.

Trust & languages
Traditional ChineseEnglishTaiwanese Hokkien

Identity-bound sessions, policy-bounded actions, 100% audit logging, human approvals at defined points, in-tenant intelligence.

Business case

The economics, with your numbers

Addressable monthly interactions2.0M
Seller assumption — replace in discovery
Current cost per interaction ($)$3.0
Industry benchmark scale — validate
Automation / assistance rate (%)55%
Seller assumption — pilot proves this
$6.0M
Current operating cost / mo
$35.0M
Modelled gross benefit / yr
0.1 mo
Payback on Transform
745%
3-yr ROI (modelled)
Automated/assisted interactions per month1.1M
Modelled AI run-cost per month (usage + cloud, system estimate)$385K
New monthly operating cost$3.1M

All figures are modelling estimates from the labeled inputs above — nothing here is customer-provided yet. The pilot's first job is replacing these assumptions with Chunghwa Telecom's measured baseline. Package price covers implementation only; recurring usage billed separately.

Recommended package

Transform — $200K implementation

Transform · $200K · A broader enterprise deployment14–20 weeks phased across units

Why this package for Chunghwa Telecom: The incumbent's estate spans mobile, broadband, MOD television and legacy fixed-line with public-sector service obligations — multi-workflow, multi-BU scope that justifies Transform from the start.

Included
  • 7–10 channels
  • Multiple inbound + outbound workflows
  • Complex enterprise integrations
  • Multiple business units or geographies
  • Advanced agent orchestration
  • Enterprise grounding
  • Governance & evaluation framework
  • Role-based human supervision
  • Custom analytics & optimization
  • Production hardening + managed rollout plan
Not included
  • ✕Usage & consumption (billed separately)
  • ✕Ongoing managed operations (contracted separately)
Recurring costs (separate from the package)

Packages cover implementation and integration only. Recurring costs are billed separately: Tilicho Labs platform usage (~$0.15/call-min indicative, usage only), Google Cloud consumption, telephony/carrier charges, managed operations, and support & optimization. No package includes unlimited usage.

Customer resources required
  • · API access + credentials for: BSS/billing, CRM, Subscription management
  • · A named business owner for converged billing and plan service line (mobile, broadband, mod bundles)
  • · Security review counterpart and policy sign-off (BSS/billing scope)
  • · Baseline metrics for the pilot's success thresholds
Executive messages

What to say to whom

CEO / Chairman

“Chunghwa's mandate is serving all of Taiwan; agentic service fluent in Hokkien and patient with every demographic is that mandate modernized — universal service at economics the incumbent's cost base can finally sustain.”

CIO / CTO

“Your Laboratories heritage means real internal AI capability; a governed external platform on selected frontline queues benchmarks against internal work and accelerates the estate's modernization without waiting for it.”

COO

“The legacy estate's service complexity is your structural cost disadvantage against mobile-only rivals; in-conversation resolution and truck-roll avoidance attack the two heaviest lines at once.”

Head of Consumer Business

“Billing peaks across the island's largest base melt queues monthly; elastic capacity in three languages ends surge staffing while serving segments rivals ignore.”

Chief Risk / Compliance Officer

“PDPA-aligned handling, 100% logging and script governance — evidence-grade conduct records befitting a government-linked operator's public accountability.”

CFO / Procurement

“The pilot measures cost per contact and dispatch avoidance against your own baselines; procurement-formal, benchmarked, and priced on usage rather than headcount.”

Outreach

Pre-built offer emails for Chunghwa Telecom

Written from this account's own research — the strategic signal, the capability gap, the entry workflow, and the modelled economics — not a mail-merge template. Pick the moment and the persona, edit anything, then copy or open in your mail client.

Moment in the deal
Cold outreach — no prior conversation
Who it's addressed to
Cares about: The workflow itself and its daily failure modes
Register
Length
Draft — edit freely before sending
Open in mail client

Customer-safe by construction: drafts are composed only from customer-facing fields. Account tier, build-vs-buy classification, priority score, internal routing, and partner-commercial detail are not inputs to the composer, so they cannot appear in a draft. Money figures are always framed as modelled from the customer's own volumes. Read before sending — you own what goes out.

The pursuit

Tier 1 — immediate strategic pursuit

Why this tier

Taiwan's incumbent operator — government-linked heritage, the largest mobile, broadband and fixed-line base, and enterprise obligations spanning the public sector — carries the island's biggest service estate and its most demographically-diverse customer base, from Taipei fintech users to Hokkien-first rural seniors.

30 / 60 / 90-day plan
  • Day 0–30: Formal briefing with consumer-business and technology leadership: scope a benchmarked pilot on the converged billing line with Hokkien voice acceptance testing, structured for the incumbent's procurement process.; confirm sponsor and baseline data access; validate: Chunghwa Telecom Laboratories' own conversational-AI work and internal-platform ambitions
  • Day 31–60: architecture & security review with the platform team; Tilicho Labs scoping on Voice + App chat; pilot scope signed
  • Day 61–90: Transform package kickoff; converged billing and plan service line (mobile, broadband, mod bundles) pilot in build; success thresholds locked with the Head of Consumer Business
Recommended next step

Formal briefing with consumer-business and technology leadership: scope a benchmarked pilot on the converged billing line with Hokkien voice acceptance testing, structured for the incumbent's procurement process.

Entry: Converged billing and plan service line (mobile, broadband, MOD bundles) · Transform package · 14–20 weeks phased across units. Human fallback throughout; success thresholds agreed before build.

Start the pursuit

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