Regulations for Administration on Fixed Network Telecommunications Business Article 22-3

The applicant for international network business, within the period of its network construction permit, shall install its international gateway exchange facilities and international submarine cable landing to Taiwan（including landing station）or fixed earth station.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.An international network business provider shall only install one inland gateway in addition to the one located at the same location of the international submarine cable landing station.An international network 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 business operators.The installment of fixed earth station set forth in Paragraph 1 shall be pursuant to the related rules of the Administrative Regulations on Satellite Communication Services.An applicant set forth in Paragraph 1 shall specify the scale of its network construction in its business plan, and its minimum authorization bandwidth of international submarine cable shall be at least 5 Gbps (Giga bits per second) of full circuit.An applicant may obtain international bandwidth by two means: one is to install submarine cable by itself and the other is to purchase IRU（Indefeasible Right of Use）.