The General Office of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology ("MIIT") has recently issued the Circular on Further Strengthening the Special Rectification for the Broadband Monopoly in Commercial Buildings (the "Circular").
The Circular mainly stipulates general requirements, major tasks, organization and implementation as well as guarantee measures. In particular, the Circular defines three major tasks, such as, checking whether an enterprise or its agent has concluded an exclusive agreement about or agreed upon the restriction to equal access with a real estate development enterprise, property management company, etc., or has constrained or restricted the fair access and use of any other telecom operator in any other way, or has regulated its own business practices and those of its agent. Meanwhile, the Circular stresses strict supervision of law enforcement. All communications administrations shall step up unannounced inspection and random check, and investigate and verify problem clues reported by the masses and exposed by media; and, shall include enterprises receiving administrative sanctions and penalties according to the law in the list of enterprises with telecom business malpractices or dishonesty, and expose the enterprises to the public.