Abstract
Important changes have already taken place in universal service (USO) in Taiwan, where digital divide and digital convergence in the telecommunications sector have resulted in improvements in telecommunications availability, affordability and accessibility. After analyzing the characteristic of digital divide, digital convergence and current policy, this paper indicates that current USO’s policy shall increase target to minority and take into social welfare policy. On the other hand, USO’s policy shall deregulate the limitation on universal service provider in digital convergence environment and create a competitive market.