Regulations Governing Telecommunications Numbers Article 18

Type I telecommunications enterprises shall submit the statistics of the entire batch of subscriber numbers leased to Type II telecommunications enterprises to the Competent Authority for reference before January 10 and July 10 every year.The cutoff lines for statistics as described in the preceding paragraph are December 31 of the preceding year and June 30 of that year.If Type II telecommunications enterprises that lease the entire batch of subscribers numbers as referred to in Paragraph 1 terminate their operation, change the cooperative Type I telecommunications enterprises, or terminate the use of leased subscriber numbers, the leased subscriber numbers shall be recalled by the original Type I telecommunications enterprise; however, subscriber numbers that have been provided by Type II telecommunications enterprises to subscribers shall be taken over by the said Type I telecommunications enterprises. The Type I telecommunications shall also agree that the original subscribers may continue using the original subscriber numbers.Where Type I telecommunications enterprises terminate the lease subscriber numbers pursuant to the preceding paragraph, the numbers shall be handled according to Subparagraph 5 of Paragraph 1 of Article 16.Where Type II telecommunications enterprises fall under any of the conditions described in the preceding article, Type I telecommunications enterprises shall immediately terminate the lease of a part of or all numbers leased to Type II telecommunications enterprises.Type I telecommunications enterprises that violate the provisions set forth in Article 4, 16, 19, 20 and 23, or do not comply with the preceding paragraph shall not lease the entire batch of telecommunications numbers to Type II telecommunications enterprises until necessary corrective action has been undertaken.