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Chapter V Supplementary Provisions
Article 21
When selling telecommunications services paired with subscriber numbers, telecommunications enterprises allocated with subscriber numbers shall clearly label the provisions of Article 14 through the product packaging, sales channels, or other prominent, public, and accessible means.
Article 22
Regarding the sales information of telecommunications services paired with subscriber numbers, online retailing platform operators shall include the following measures into their terms of service:
1. Those who publish sales information must provide evidence of being registered either as telecommunications enterprises allocated with subscriber numbers or telecommunications enterprises engaged in the wholesale resale service of subscriber numbers, being commissioned agencies as prescribed in Article 9, or having conducted related practices in accordance with Article 14.
2. The published content shall include the identity of the sales information publisher as prescribed in the preceding subparagraph and shall be labeled according to the preceding article.
When online retailing platform operators learn of any non-compliance with the preceding paragraph, they shall notify the sales information publisher to undertake corrective action or take necessary measures within a prescribed period.
Upon learning of any non-compliance with provisions of Paragraph 1 on the website, telecommunications enterprises allocated with subscriber numbers or telecommunications enterprises engaged in the wholesale resale service of subscriber numbers shall notify the online retailing platform operators to restrict browsing or remove the content from the website.
The competent authority may regularly publish the implementation status of the notifications issued by the telecommunications enterprises allocated with subscriber numbers or telecommunications enterprises engaged in the wholesale resale service of subscriber numbers in the preceding paragraph.
Article 23
Regarding subscriber numbers assigned to corporate customers, if the registered information does not comply with Article 4 within one year of the enactment of the Regulations, telecommunications enterprises allocated with subscriber numbers shall notify high-risk corporate customers that have been notified by the relevant authorities for communication suspension to undertake corrective action within a prescribed period.
Those who fail to make corrections within the prescribed period shall be presumed to have incomplete or false subscriber information as prescribed in Subparagraph 1 of Article 13. In such circumstances, telecommunications enterprises allocated with subscriber numbers shall handle the matter in accordance with Paragraph 1 of Article 18
Article 24
When allocating subscriber numbers used for IoT purposes and non-specific interpersonal communication to corporate customers, telecommunications enterprises assigned with subscriber numbers may, if in compliance with the following provisions, be exempted from managing the usage of subscriber numbers as prescribed in Articles 14 to 17:
1. The type, purposes and quantity of the terminal equipment paired with subscriber numbers have been provided and evaluated by telecommunications enterprises allocated with subscriber numbers for their compliance with Article 15.
2. After the physical or virtual subscriber identification modules paired with subscriber numbers are integrated with specific terminal equipment, the separation of the number for reuse for other purposes is difficult and supporting information has been provided.
3. The subscriber identification modules paired with subscriber numbers have been integrated with the terminal equipment.
Article 25
Telecommunications enterprises allocated with subscriber numbers shall retain the subscriber numbers that have been returned or terminated by subscribers for at least three months before reassigning them to new subscribers, unless otherwise agreed upon by new subscribers.
When a part or all of the business of the telecommunications enterprise terminates, and the competent authority in charge of telecommunication numbers allocating reallocates the subscriber numbers to other telecommunications enterprises, the telecommunications enterprise receiving the allocation should retain the subscriber number for six months for the original subscriber to apply for reuse, unless they are IoT numbers.
Article 26
The Regulations shall come into force on the date of promulgation.