Regulations for Examination of Public Telecommunications Networks Article 4

After completing the establishment in accordance with the network establishment plan, the applicant shall submit the following documents and apply to the competent authority for examination:1. Public telecommunications network examination application form (hereinafter referred to as the application form)2. Network configuration and description3. Public telecommunications network examination self-assessment report (hereinafter referred to as the self-assessment report)4. Other documents as required by the Technical Specifications for Examination of Public Telecommunications Network (hereinafter referred to as the technical specifications)5. Those that are required to undertake the network performance examination of the value-added telecommunications services in accordance with the provisions of Paragraph 4, Article 6, shall provide a value-added performance test proposal, which includes the review or test items, test methods and compliance standards.6. Those that combine self-built and other telecommunications networks may submit the examination compliance certificate of the network of others.Those that submit the examination compliance certificates of others’ networks prescribed in Subparagraph 6 of the preceding paragraph may be exempted from the examination of the said other network.After the competent authority has received the application, it shall notify the applicant to pay the examination fee, which shall be remitted within the prescribed time limit and then submit the payment invoice to the competent authority.If the submitted documents are deemed incomplete, the competent authority shall notify the applicant to undertake corrective action within a prescribed time period; for those that fail to undertake corrective action or whose corrective action is deemed incomplete within the prescribed time, the application for examination shall not be accepted, and the examination fees paid and the interest shall not be refunded.