Taiwan will spend around seven billion Taiwan dollars (US$219.3 million) over the next four years to boost the development of cutting-edge telecom technologies, an official said Tuesday.

The project to give the island an edge in fourth-generation (4G) technologies was approved Monday by the Council for Economic Planning and Development, the island’s top economic planning body.

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