Installing, maintaining and repairing network facilities
41.
A service license holder may do the following things at the place where it is allowed to do with a
mutual agreement, including a lease term, after negotiating with the relevant land and building
owner or his or her authorized agent to install or connect network facilities:
(a) Enter and do such things as surveying, measuring, taking surface levels of land, taking soil
samples, digging of pits and inspecting the surface of the land;
(b) Lay, place, install and connect the required network facilities upon and under such land and
water for the purposes of carrying out network and related services;
(c) Enter and inspect, maintain and repair network facilities.
42.
Should there be a change in the ownership of the land and building where the tasks under section
41 are agreed to do, the service license holder must again seek to reach agreement to continue the
installation and connection of network facilities.
43.
Where a service license holder installs, maintains, repairs, alters and removes network facilities,
such activities shall not pose a disturbance or hindrance to roads or bus routes or waterways or air
ways that the public uses.
44.
A service license holder shall not enter any land without giving prior notice to the land owner for
the purpose of making surveys for installing or removing network facilities.
45.
A service license holder shall take all reasonable steps to minimize damage in installing or
maintaining network facilities.
46.
If anyone is injured or any of his or her property is damaged due to gross negligence or a deliberate
act of failure when a service license holder is installing or maintaining his or her own network
facilities, the person who is injured or the owner of the land and building or his or her authorized
agent is entitled to damages from the service license holder in accordance with the prescribed
conditions.
47.
A licensee shall do things in accordance with the law having taken into account the safety of humans
and properties when he or she is carrying out their work on highways, roads, railroads, rivers, canals,
other waterways, irrigation systems, drainage, water supply, telecommunications, port operation or
something which may be detrimental to public or private businesses or is installing network facilities
on and under the ground for a telecommunications service.
48.
If the Regulator thinks that any telecommunication service or telecommunication network is
required to be carried out in a building, whether under construction or completed, and on the land
thereof or raising the quality of network service in a building and on the land thereof is required,
(a) The Regulator may negotiate with the relevant organizations for enabling the investor or the
owner of the building and land to install network facilities in or at the top of the building or on
the land in the stipulated time frame.
(b) The Regulator may direct a service license holder to install network facilities in the stipulated
time frame;
(c) The Regulator may direct a service license holder to bear part of all of the costs for providing
network facilities.
49.
The Regulator may encourage cooperation so as to avoid the unnecessary expenditure of financial
resources in the building and facilitate the installation of network facilities of the service license
holder and to conserve the environment.
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