Regulations for Administration on Fixed Network Telecommunications Business Article 2

The terms of these Regulations are defined as follows:1. "Fixed telecommunications system" refers to the communication system consisting of the network transmission equipment, in the form of fixed line or other transmission modes approved by the competent authority, that connects a fixed end of origination to a receiving end, the exchange equipment that constitute an integral part of the network transmission equipment, and the auxiliary equipment of the above two.2. "Fixed telecommunications network" refers to the communication network consisting of a fixed telecommunications system.3. "Fixed telecommunications" refers to the telecommunications in which audio, data, images, video signals, multimedia signals or other types of information are transmitted through the use of a fixed telecommunications network.4. "Fixed network telecommunications business" refers to the business of providing fixed telecommunications services by operators through the use of a fixed telecommunications network.5. "Operators" refers to the persons who have been granted concessions and licenses by the competent authority for the operation of a fixed network telecommunications business.6. "Network infrastructure facilities" refers to the ducts, manholes, hand holes, towers, poles, main distribution frame, telecommunication equipment room, and other auxiliary or related facilities required for installation of telecommunications lines, lead-in lines, telecommunication subscribers lines, and various transmission lines and circuits, whether over-pass, underground or submerged for local, long-distance and international telecommunications.7. "Dominant carrier in fixed network telecommunications market" refers to an operator who is assigned by Article 10 of the Administrative Regulation Governing Tariffs of Type I Telecommunications Enterprises.8. "Subscribers" refers to the persons who enter into contracts with operators and use the fixed telecommunications services provided by such operators.9. "Users" refers to subscribers and other persons who use the fixed telecommunications services provided by operators.10. "Public pay-telephone" refers to telephones installed by operators for public use and paid for by inserting coins, cash cards, credit cards, or pre-paid cards.11. "Emergency telephone" refers to a telephone that may be used for the reporting of fire, theft, robbery, and other emergencies.12. "International submarine cable system" refers to the international submarine cable that is laid in the ocean and its auxiliary equipment.13. "International submarine cable landing station" refers to the telecommunications facilities and auxiliary equipment connecting a submarine cable and inland backhaul in order to send or receive international telecommunications to the prior submarine cable or backhaul for transmission into or out of the country.14. "Inland Gateway" refers to the inland telecommunications equipment and auxiliary equipment to interconnect the international submarine cable and publicly switched telecommunications network.15. "The back-haul facilities" refers to the high capacity inland transmission links and auxiliary equipment that connect between the international submarine cable landing station and the inland gateway or the exchange equipment of a public switched telecommunications network of any operator.16. "Multimedia content transporting platform service" refers to the service which provides subscribers with accessibility to multimedia content offered by content service providers through interactive media platform installed by a local network business operator.17. "Multimedia content service" refers to channel program content service or audio, data, and video content service offered by other multimedia content service providers through a multimedia content transporting platform.18. "Channel program content" refers to audio-video content, in program units, played in a schedule pre-arranged by a content service provider, on a transporting platform channel, selected and bought by subscribers using an electronic-menu.19. "Content service provider" refers to a dealer who offers channel program content or multimedia content service by using the multimedia content transporting platform.20. Telecommunication equipment room: referring to the equipment room the operator has installed for controlling the machinery, devices, wire circuits and other related equipment, to provide the telecommunications service.21. Networking data center equipment room: referring to the equipment room the operator has installed of the equipment cabinetry, power, air-conditioning, fire fighting and related facilities for leasing, hosting or for the users to install the information communication equipment on their own.22. Telecommunications infrastructure： refers to telecommunications equipment and its pipeline infrastructure.