Regulations Governing Network Interconnection among Telecommunications Enterprises Article 26

The network interconnection agreement between Type I telecommunications enterprises shall be negotiated by the interconnecting enterprises, and a written agreement shall be signed.Except the long-distance telecommunications between local network service enterprises in different local telephone business areas, if the communication between two Type I telecommunications enterprises needs to be switched through the network of other Type I telecommunications enterprises, the network interconnection agreement shall be negotiated by related Type I telecommunications enterprises jointly, and a written agreement shall be signed together.No written agreement is reached pursuant to the preceding paragraph, the telecommunications enterprises are not allowed to receive or transmit telephone traffic requiring switching.The written agreement of interconnection between Type I telecommunications enterprises shall be submitted to the NCC in written form for reference within one month after it is completed.The NCC may disclose a part or the whole of the interconnection agreement between dominant market players of Type I telecommunications enterprises and other Type I telecommunications enterprises. Upon request, the NCC may elect not to disclose such portions of the agreement related to patent or other intellectual property rights.