Taiwan Sets Financial Guidance for 30-Minute Mobile Network Slowdown Drill

Taiwan’s 2026 Urban Resilience Exercises will include a mobile network slowdown for the first time, testing whether essential services can continue operating under constrained communications. The drill matters for the financial sector because mobile banking, online banking and electronic-payment platforms depend on reliable connectivity for logins, authentication, transfers and purchases. Even a temporary reduction in network performance could delay transactions or leave customers uncertain about whether instructions were completed.

The planned slowdown will last 30 minutes during the 2026 exercise. Taiwan’s Financial Supervisory Commission advised customers with large transfers, bill payments or other time-sensitive transactions to complete them in advance. Users who encounter unstable mobile connections should switch to Wi-Fi or a fixed-line network where available. Financial institutions will also need to monitor transaction status and customer-service demand to limit duplicate submissions, processing delays and uncertainty over account balances.