臺灣電信系統的空間演變

The Spatial Transformation of the Telecommunication System in Taiwan.

蕭承典

指導教授 ： 周學政

國立臺灣師範大學/文學院/地理學系/碩士(2007年)

摘要

資訊社會是當前社會的熱潮，各國政府無不積極朝向此目標發展，台灣在科技的領域不落人後，因此政府機關大力推出各樣的資訊建設方案，為的是使資訊流通更為快速，甚至能藉此促進資訊產業的發展。面對這樣的資訊化社會的熱潮，仍然有許多令人懷疑之處，特別是許多的推動者希望能藉由資訊設備消除地理上空間的限制，因此本文透過對台灣電信系統之在空間演變發展上之檢視，藉由時間的脈絡來看台灣已有之電信系統的發展，從其空間分布之特性來推敲這些新興電信通訊設備會遭遇的問題。
本研究特別透過對在台灣發展具有相當成熟度的電話系統作為主對象，藉由常用之核心通訊指標作為檢測之依據，來看其在空間分布上的特性，並了解其發展之脈絡。結果可以發現台灣之電話系統具有明顯之區域差異，特別是有集中在都市地區之現象，電話系統與都市之間密切相關；反過來說，電話系統在相對邊陲之地區重要性則不明顯，因此電話之使用者也以都市地區為多，提供通訊業務之服務機構也以都市作為主要服務之對象。
從電話系統可以看到明顯的城鄉差距，正如資訊社會學者Castells的論點以及地理學者Gottmann對資訊設備的觀點一樣，這些電信通訊設備並無法消減地理空間的阻隔，反而使使用者及資本更為集中，相對的邊陲地區便漸漸被忽略，因此當我們在進行電信通訊建設，或是近來政府推動資訊化時，都該更關注區域間的差距，而電信業者也該積極減少數位落差之產生。

關鍵字

電話系統 ； 空間演變 ； 資訊化社會

並列摘要

The informational society is the current society's upsurge, governments around the world are striving to promote and develop their informational society due to its current upsurge. The Taiwan government implements multiple information construction plans to improve the technical backbone of Taiwan. This will cause information circulation to be faster, taking advantage of the advances in the information industry. However, in facing informational society there are still some doubts, such as many propellents speculated that information equipment would be able to eliminate the limits in geographical space. This research paper takes a look at the development of the spatial transformation of the telecommunication system in Taiwan, searching all the questions that new telecommunication equipment may encounter from spatial distribution.
This research focuses on the fully developed telephone system in Taiwan and examines the commonly used core Information Communication Technology (ICT) indicators. It looks at the characteristics of spatial distribution to understand the context of its development. The result reveals that Taiwan’s telephone system has obvious regional differences, especially concentrated in metropolis areas. Telephone systems and metropolises are related spatially. In other words, telephone systems are not apparent in rural regions due to the lack of telephone users, in contrast to the abundance of telephone users in metropolises. Thus, corporations which provide communication services also choose metropolises as their main service targets.
We see that there is a conspicuous urban and rural divide in telephone systems, like geographer Gottmann and informational society scholar Castell argues. These telecommunication communication equipment are unable to reduce the spatial impediment of geography, and instead causes users and the capital more centralization. Relatively, the border region areas are gradually neglected. Therefore divisions between regions must be paid attention to when telecommunication construction is carried out, or the government implements an informational push. telecommunication entrepreneurs should strive to reduce the digital divide.

並列關鍵字

Telephone system ； Spatial transformation ； Informational society

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