1. In accordance with Paragraph 4, Article 6 of the Telecommunications Management Act, the application form, procedures, and other related matters for the application for registration of telecommunication enterprises have been stipulated.
2. Eligibility: telecommunications service providers that provide telecommunications services, or those that engage in one of the acts described in Article 5 of the Telecommunications Management Act.
3. Telecommunications service providers qualified under the Article 2 above and applying for registration shall submit an application form to the competent authority for processing.
The aforementioned application form shall contain the following items:
(1) The name and residence of the applicant and the contact person: the name of the company, the location of the company, the name of the representative, the nationality, the national ID card or passport number, and residence. If the applicant is a non-national, the contact person shall be a native of the country and reside within the country.
(2) Company or business registration document number: the company or business registration document shall be attached.
(3) Service content and business overview.
(4) A photocopy of the telecommunications network framework or of the public telecommunications network use certificate: If the telecommunications network framework is not in Chinese language, it shall be accompanied by a Chinese translation.
The service content and business overview shall contain the following items for applicants who apply for registration of subscriber number wholesale and resale service:
(1) Company (business) introduction.
(2) The contents of the telecommunications services provided.
(3) The manner of accepting applications for telecommunications services.
(4) Operation flow (including flowchart) related to service content.
(5) Manpower allocation and system setup.
(6) Documentation of the implementation of the regulations and guidelines of the competent authority on the management of telecommunications number usage.
(7) Documentation of the intent to cooperate with the telecommunications enterpriser that has been allocated subscriber numbers, as well as a description and illustration of the network framework.
When deemed necessary, the competent authority shall notify the applicant to make corrections to incomplete documents in the preceding two paragraphs within a prescribed deadline; the competent authority may reject the application if the corrections are not made within the deadline or the corrective actions are deemed incomplete.
Telecommunications enterprises shall submit relevant documents to apply for changing registration within 30 days from the date of change of registration.
After the registration of a telecommunications enterprise, the enterprise shall apply for allocation or approval in accordance with the provisions of the Telecommunications
Management Act for the use of radio frequencies, telecommunications numbers, or the setting up of the public telecommunications network.
4. Telecommunications enterprises qualified under the Article 2 above may apply for registration online in accordance with the regulations.
5. The application forms and procedures are as shown in Table 1 and Appendix 1; and the format of the certificate of telecommunications enterprise registration is shown in Appendix 2.