Roaming Arrangement Sample Clauses

Roaming Arrangement. 1. Because Party A and Party B provide mobile services in their own respective service areas and in order to provide roaming services to both Parties’ mobile subscribers, both Parties hereby agree to make arrangements as follows:

Roaming Arrangement. Each of the Target Companies and the Group offers domestic and international roaming services to its subscribers. In May 2000, the Company entered into the Roaming Agreement with CMCC which applies to the six existing operating subsidiaries of the Company. The Roaming Agreement is valid for two years from 1 April 1999, and will be automatically renewed on an annual basis unless either party notifies the other of its intention to terminate at least three months prior to the expiration of the term. Under this agreement, with regard to inter-provincial roaming, 80% of the basic roaming calling charges payable by a roaming subscriber is credited to the visited network operator and the remaining 20% is retained by the roaming subscriber's home network operator. With regard to international roaming, roaming calling charges incurred by an international cellular subscriber making or receiving a call while roaming in the areas in mainland China where the Group operates are collected and credited to the Group by CMCC, and the Group will make the necessary settlement with the relevant telecommunications operators in mainland China. CMCC also collects

Roaming Arrangement. Each of the Operating Subsidiaries offers domestic and international roaming services to its subscribers. Under the Roaming Agreement: - with regard to inter-provincial roaming, 80% of the basic roaming calling charge payable by a roaming subscriber will be credited to the visited network operator, and the remaining 20% will be retained by the roaming subscriber's home network operator; - with regard to international roaming, roaming calling charges incurred by an international cellular subscriber making or receiving a call while roaming in the areas in mainland China where the Group operates are collected and credited to the Group by CMCC, and the Group will make the necessary settlement with the relevant telecommunications operators in mainland China. CMCC also collects a 15% handling charge on the roaming calling charges from the international mobile communications operators and shares such handling charge equally with the Group; and - when subscribers of the Group roam internationally, the Group will collect the roaming calling charges together with a 15% handling charge from its subscribers and will pay the roaming calling charges together with half of the handling charge collected to CMCC, which will make the necessary settlement with the international mobile communications operators concerned. -7- 10 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- LETTER FROM THE BOARD -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- With respect to international roaming (that is, a mainland Chinese mobile phone subscriber roaming in Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan or foreign countries or an international cellular subscriber roaming in mainland China), the roaming calling charges and the calculation of the charges are determined according to the terms agreed between CTC or CMCC and the relevant international cellular operators. In addition, pursuant to the Roaming Agreement, CMCC provides inter-provincial and international roaming clearing and settlement services, including related data transmission services, to the Group. The Group pays to CMCC a roaming call record processing fee of RMB0.02 for each inter-provincial roaming call record processed and RMB0.30 for each international roaming call record processed.