Telecommunications Universal Service Regulations Article 17

The competent authority（NCC）shall, no later than December 1 of the year prior to the implementation year, set forth the universal service providers and the implementation plans.Every universal service provider shall provide universal service in accordance with the previous implementation plan in the implementation year. However, in case of unpredicted events such as a necessary change of plan, the universal service provider shall apply for change of implementation plan to the competent authority（NCC）and carry out the change after approval.The provider of the Voice-based Telecommunications Universal Service stated in paragraph 1 shall, if the implementation plan already includes provision of the facilities for Telecommunications Universal Service on Data Transmission, provide Telecommunications Universal Service on Data Transmission in uneconomic areas in accordance with functions of the facilities; the service provider shall not apply for extra subsidy of Telecommunications Universal Service on Data Transmission in uneconomic areas based on the facilities.