These Rules are enacted in accordance with the provision of Paragraph 3, Article 46, and Paragraph 3, Article 47 of the Telecommunications Act.

The terms as used herein shall be defined as follows:
1. “Radio and Television Broadcaster” means an operator obtaining an approval from the Government Information Office of the competent authority according to the regulations relating to radio and television broadcasting to operate or produce television broadcasting services.
2. “Relay” means a device that receives, amplifies, converts and transmits radio telecommunications signals.
3. “Satellite Organizations” means the domestic or international organizations approved by related international satellite organizations or institutes to possess satellites either in orbit or imminently to be launched into orbit and to operate satellite systems.
4. “Satellite Transponder (hereinafter referred to as transponder)” means a communications relay device placed on a satellite. Its function includes receiving uplink signals from earth stations, amplifying and converting them into downlink signals, then re-amplifying the signals before transmitting them to earth.
5. “Earth Station” means a facility that receives, processes and transmits the signals of broadcast television programs between earth and satellites.
6. “Up-link” means the wireless link formed by transmission from an earth station to a satellite.
7. “Down-link” means the wireless link formed by transmission from a satellite to an earth station.
8. “Primary Services” means the services that use the radio spectra allocated by the competent authority, and have the right not to suffer any interference from other radio spectra used by other services.
9. “Secondary Services” means the services that use the radio spectra allocated by the competent authority that shall not interfere with primary services. The secondary services must further accept radio spectrum interference from the primary services.
10. “Encryption” means the technology to encode a program signal so that those that have not installed an authorized decoder cannot receive the signal.
11. “Compression Technology” means the technology that converts and processes signals to reduce the quantity of data needed so that the bandwidth required to transmit the signals is narrowed.
12. “Engineering Manager” means an individual in charge of matters relating to engineering techniques at the earth station and responsible for and in supervision of construction, maintenance and operation of earth station facilities.

The competent authority of these rules is the National Communications Commission.