Cable Radio and Television Act Article 20

Regarding the system’s service range, the founder or system operator shall have its service range covered at least fifty percent of the administrative households in applied service area within the validity of the establishment permit.Where the service range of installed system is more than fifteen percent of the total administrative households in applied service area, the founder may apply for system examination.Once the system’s qualification is approved through the examination, the founder may request the regulatory agency to issue the operation approval and permit.System operators shall initiate the operations within three months after obtaining the operation permit and license, unless system operator provides justifications and except those who have received approvals from the central regulatory agency.System operators who have obtained operation permit and license according to Paragraph 3 shall, while initiating the operations, complete system installation for a service range that is fifty percent the total administrative household in applied increasing service area. Within the period prescribed in Paragraph 1 of Article 16 if its system service range is less than fifty percent of the total administrative household in service area as regulated.System operator, who attempts to expand the service area and whose service range of additionally installed systems is more than fifteen percent of the total administrative household in applied increasing service area, shall submit its application of system examination to the central regulatory agency. The said system operator is then allowed to expand its service area once its qualification is approved through the examination.System operators who apply for examination according to preceding Paragraph shall have its paid-in capital complied with Paragraph 6 and Paragraph 7 of Article 9.When the system operator mentioned in Paragraph 6 initiates the operations and its service range fails to reach fifty percent of the total administrative households in applied increasing service area, it shall increase the system installation to enlarge the system’s service range to fifty percent of the total administrative household in applied increasing service area by the deadline prescribed in Paragraph 3 of Article 16.System installation conducted by system operator, implementations of the head-end backup mechanism, system examination, technical standards, engineering assessment, system maintenance, and other engineering and technical regulatory matters shall be enacted by the central regulatory agency.For system examination applied in accordance with Paragraph 2 and Paragraph 6, its transmission facilities of leased type I telecommunications business or other system operators, and head-ends leased from or shared with other system operators as its backup head-ends shall be equipped with leasing or sharing evidentiary documents.