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These Standards are adopted pursuant to Article 29 of the Taipei Exchange (TPEx) Rules Governing Use of Trading Information on TPEx Securities Transactions.
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User applicants, with the exception of securities firms and futures commission merchants, shall pay a monthly fee of NT$75,000 to the TPEx for the receipt of the transmission items listed in Attachment 1 from the TPEx through a direct network connection.
User applicants, with the exception of securities firms and futures commission merchant, shall further pay a fee for providing the transmission items for use by any third party through hyperlinks, and the fee is calculated based on the total number of the user's client accounts, as follows:
- A monthly trading information user fee of NT$70,000 for 0 to 5,000 accounts.
- A monthly fee of NT$12 per account for each additional account from (and including) 5,001 accounts or higher.
- Where the fee is based on usage time, 4,000 minutes per month shall be counted as one account.
- An additional NT$20,000 per company per month if there are 6 or more companies providing hyperlinks.
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Securities firms, if in direct network connection with the TPEx, shall pay a monthly fee of NT$10,000 to the TPEx.
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Securities firms, if in direct network connection with a data company, shall pay a monthly fee of NT$4,000 to the TPEx.
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Cable television and radio operators and satellite television broadcasters that receive trading information through an indirect network connection via another user applicant and then broadcast the received trading information by "fixed-interval page flipping," shall pay a monthly fee of NT$30,000 to the TPEx.
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User applicants shall pay the trading information user fee payable to the TPEx by the 15th day of each month. For the purpose of calculating the monthly fee, any part of a month is counted as a full month.
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Securities firms and securities-related enterprises shall bear the cost for the equipment related to the set-up of the trading information system.
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