Chapter III Operations management
Section I Equipment management
Article 28
The telecommunications equipment the operator install shall comply with the technical guideline specified by competent government authorities.
The operator is to adequately operate and maintain whose satellite communications network, enabling the various equipment operations to comply with stipulations set by relevant technical guideline; of any breach to the regulations, the competent government authorities may order the operator to adopt improvement within a prescribed deadline.
Article 29
The location number encryption interlinking the satellite communications network the satellite mobile communications service operator launches and the other telecommunications networks are to be verified and assigned by competent government authorities.
Of the international number encryption for interlinking a satellite mobile communications service operator’s satellite communications network and the other telecommunications networks, the operator is to secure the international number encryption on its own, and is to voluntarily declare the information with competent government authorities prior to using the numbers.
Article 30
The antenna facility the operator installs at a fixed earth station shall be kept with a safety distance form high-voltage power lines, and of one with a height that exceeds 60 meters from ground surface shall come with aerial color coding and identification beacon to avoid endangering public safety.
The site where the operator installs the fixed earth station shall have ominous warning sign installed, together with adequate measures adopted. Aid warning sign shall also disclose the output power, where located, the telecommunications operator, authentication technician, date and the like. However, the restrictions exclude small-scale earth stations with an antenna measuring less than 1.2m and only equipped with receiving function.
Article 31
The satellite mobile communications service operator is to install locally the fixed earth station and retransmitting equipment for interlinking whose satellite communications network and the other communications networks.
Article 32
The satellite small-scale earth station networking operator is to install the main control’s fixed earth station (the main control earth station) and related equipment for use in controlling and managing whose satellite small-scale earth station network.
Of the electric circuit connecting a satellite fixed communications service operator to its user’s equipment, the operator or the user is to lease from a long-distance or inner-city fixed networking operator, except where the connecting circuit is located within the same building.
Article 33
The operator is to select and hire high-end telecommunications engineering personnel meeting the specified qualification to be in charge and to surveillance the satellite communications network’s development, maintenance and operation, who are to verify and sign the implementation daily log and maintenance daily log.
The foresaid implementation and maintenance daily logs are to be retained for at least one year, and when the competent government authorities dispatch inspector to audit the records, the operator shall supply the information.
Article 34
The operator, when moving to terminate operating whose earth station equipment, is required to voluntarily declare with competent government authorities, and also to surrender and cancel whose station license; of one that fails to surrender and cancel whose station license, the competent government authorities may revoke the license.
Of the foresaid station’s frequency transmitting devices, the operator is to operate the devices in accordance with relevant stipulations set by the Telecommunications regulated frequency transmitting devices management measure.
Article 35
The telecommunications equipment installed by the operator and the user linking to other public telecommunications equipment shall meet the following criteria:
1. It does not infringe others’ communications secrecy.
2. An adequate telecommunications service quality is to be maintained.
3. It does not damage the user or public telecommunications equipment.
4. The operator’s telecommunications network and the public telecommunications networking equipment have a clear-cut liability dividing point.
The liability dividing point stated in the preceding paragraph 4 shall be voluntarily declared with competent government authorities.
Article 36
Of operators who breach stipulations set forth under the preceding paragraph 1, the competent government authorities may order the operator to adopt improvement within a prescribed deadline, or restrict whose operation.
Article 37
The operation of the fixed earth station, except the small-scale earth station, may only allow the adaptation of remote control when complying with the following four circumstances:
1. Adequate measures have been taken to prevent individuals from entering or operating the fixed earth station.
2. The high-end telecommunications engineering personnel responsible for the operation can swiftly arrive at the fixed earth station onsite to render necessary disposition.
3. The remote control station is able to monitor and control the operation of a fixed earth station.
4. In the event where a fixed earth station is tested or being notified to interfere the legal telecommunications, the remote control station is able to immediate stop the fixed earth station’s transmission work.
Article 38
The operator who chooses to add fixed earth stations are required to apply for a satellite fixed earth station installation approval certificate with competent government authorities in accordance with stipulations set forth under Article 17-1.
The foresaid stipulation applies to the circumstances where the operator is changing the fixed earth station’s installation site, frequency transmitting equipment or approved wireless radio frequencies; when changing the frequency transmitting equipment by adopting the same make and model number, the operator may file for an approval by competent government authorities.
Article 39
The operator’s fixed earth station, unless otherwise stipulated by laws and regulations may choose any satellite system to make up a satellite communications network.
The satellite fixed communications service operator, when transmitting signals via the satellite system overseas or receiving router of foreign signals, is required to voluntarily declare with competent government authorities.
The satellite fixed communications service operator, when in need of switching to a different satellite system under emergency circumstances, is required to voluntarily declare the information with competent government authorities, and is also required to state the incident in the maintenance daily log.