「TELECOMMUNICATIONS BUSINESS ACT」
2. Soliciting for, recommending, intermediating or advertising, any contract for the
provision of telecommunications services necessary for the use of a mobile
communications terminal, on condition of providing or lending funds.
3. Opening a mobile communications terminal in another person's name and using
telecommunications services provided to such terminal, for the purpose of committing an
act which constitutes a crime under Article 247, 347, and 347-2 of the Criminal Act or for
the purpose of committing an act of arranging sexual traffic, etc. and human traffic
aimed at sexual traffic under Article 2 (1) 2 and 3, respectively, of the Act on the
Punishment of Arrangement of Commercial Sex Acts.
(2) In entering into a contract for the provision of telecommunications services (including
contracts concluded through agents and consignees that enter into contracts for the
provision of telecommunications services on behalf of, or outsourced by,
telecommunications business operators), a telecommunications business operator
prescribed by Presidential Decree, taking into account the type of telecommunications
services, scale of business, protection of users, etc. shall, with the consent of the
counterparty to the contract, verify whether the counterparty is the principal by utilizing
the illegal contracting prevention system, etc. referred to in Article 32-5 (1), and may reject
a contract if the relevant person is not the principal or refuses to verify whether he or she
is the principal. Where the user who is the principal is changed due to the transfer of
telecommunications services provided, the succession to the user's position, or other
reasons, the same shall also apply to a person who intends to receive telecommunications
services following such change.
(3) In verifying the principal prescribed in paragraph (2), a telecommunications business
operator may request the counterparty to the contract to present a certificate or
document, such as a resident registration certificate or driver's license, through which the
relevant person can be verified as the principal.
(4) Matters necessary for the methods of verification of the principal prescribed in
paragraph (2) and the type, etc. of certificates and documents through which the relevant
person can be verified as the principal prescribed in paragraph (3) shall be prescribed by
Presidential Decree.
[This Article Newly Inserted on Oct. 15, 2014]
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