Administrative Regulations for the Establishment and Operation of a Telecommunications Network for the Academic and Education Purposes or Dedicated Experiments and Research and Development Purposes Article 6

Applicants or administrators shall not utilize academic and educational telecommunications networks, or technical experiments and research and development telecommunications network to provide telecommunications services, such as those of telecommunications businesses or broadcasting and television businesses that engage in making profit, transgressing operations or causing public misunderstanding.Applicants or administrators that provide an academic and education telecommunications network with each kind of telecommunications service shall not charge any fee from the subscribers. Nevertheless, those who share the expenses of network construction or the maintenance and operation shall not be limited herein.Applicants or administrators that provide each kind of telecommunications service for technical experiments and research and development telecommunications network shall not charge any fee from the subscribers. However, for deposits for equipment of two-party contract to that ensure facilities would not be damaged by the subscribers and returned to administrators as scheduled shall not be limited herein.Applicants or administrators using the telecommunications services provided by the established commercial experiments and research and development telecommunications network shall not illegally operate a telecommunications business or broadcasting and television business, or undertake any action that sufficiently causes the public to misidentify it as a telecommunications business or a broadcasting and television business.Applicants or administrators providing various telecommunication services on commercial experiments telecommunication networks, after the approval of the competent authority and the signing of service contracts with users, may seek profit or charge users for fees. The charging items include fees for profit-seeking actions such as commercial verification and those specified in the provision of Paragraph 3.Users of academic and educational telecommunications networks, or technical and commercial experiments and research and development telecommunications networks shall not grant third parties access and charge for the use of the services (including equipment, etc.) provided by the network.