Regulations for Administration on Fixed Network Telecommunications Business Article 12-1

An applicant for international submarine cable leased-circuit business shall acquire the certificate of authorization for connection and use from the international submarine cable system owner or manager prior to the application.The international submarine cable system aforementioned in the preceding Paragraph shall be limited to systems constructed after March 1, 2000.An applicant for international submarine cable leased-circuit business shall install its international submarine cable landing to Taiwan and its landing station within the period of its network construction permit. The landing route permit shall be subject to the relevant provisions in the Regulations of Permission on Delineation of Course for Laying, Maintaining, or Modifying Submarine Cables or Pipelines on the Continental Shelf of the Republic of China.The inland gateway set by international submarine cable leased-circuit business operator should have remote backup mechanisms. Only one inland gateway may be set to correspond to international submarine cable landing station in addition to the one located at the same location of the international submarine cable landing station. However, the competent authority may choose appropriate locations to set the second inland gateway for redundancy.The international submarine cable leased-circuit business operator may deploy its own inland backhaul or negotiate a lease of inland backhaul to connect the landing station to the inland gateway from integrated network business operators or domestic local and long-distance land cable, leased-circuit businesses.The international submarine cable leased-circuit business operator shall not use its inland backhaul to engage in other business than international submarine cable leased-circuit business.