Regulations for Administration on Fixed Network Telecommunications Business Article 66

Where a foreign country is not a member of the World Trade Organization, or where there is only one international telecommunications operator within that foreign country, any agreement between an operator and a telecommunications operator of that foreign country in relation to the handling of international telecommunication traffic and settlement rate shall be made in compliance with the principles of International Proportional Returns and Parallel Accounting Rate.The International Proportionate Returns as referred to in the preceding Paragraph means an operator shall request to be included in an agreement under which the incoming volume of any international telecommunications traffic originated from the network operated by a specific foreign telecommunications operator shall be divided and delivered to the respective operators of our country in such a percentage as proportional to the volume of outgoing international traffic originated from the respective operators of our country and terminated at the network operated by such foreign telecommunications operator, out of the total volume of outgoing international traffic originated from our country and terminated at the network operated by such foreign telecommunications operator.The principle of Parallel Accounting Rate as referred to in Paragraph 1 means the principle under which the accounting rates to be mutually agreed upon through negotiations between an operator and a specific foreign telecommunications operator in regard to the international telecommunications traffic shall be equally applicable to all other domestic operators without any discriminatory treatment. This principle shall apply to other telecommunications operators in that foreign country as well.The agreement referred to in Paragraph 1 shall be made through negotiations between the representative(s) jointly appointed by operators and the telecommunication operators of a foreign country, or shall be made in accordance with the current settlement rate.Before negotiations is proceeded pursuant to the preceding Paragraph, all operators shall negotiate and mutually agree upon the rights and obligations between themselves together with other terms and conditions in advance, and such an agreement and any amendments thereto shall be reported to the competent authority for review and approval.