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New Regulatory Issues for the Wireless/Mobile VoIP Service in Korea
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- Authors
- Young Wook Ha, Byung Sun Cho, Young Seog Yoon
- Issue Date
- 2006-07
- Citation
- Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET) 2006, pp.2041-2046
- Language
- English
- Type
- Conference Paper
- Abstract
- When the Internet phone service, generally PC-to-Phone, first entered into the telecommunications market, no regulatory issues were arisen in managing the service within the regulatory framework because of low quality, no phone number assignment and etc. However, almost the same quality, increased applications and cheaper price compared with the fixed telecommunications service, have changed the regulator's policy about allowing Internet phone service within market mechanism. While incumbent fixed telecommunications service enterprises had given with tremendous duties to continue the job categorized 'facilities-based telecommunication service provider', and which can be unreasonable and unfair if Internet phone service enterprises are allowed to enter into the fixed telecommunications market without any regulation. Thus, new regulatory framework has worked for the Internet phone service named VoIP service generally in the fixed telecommunications market. Recently, VoIP is provided not only in the fixed telecommunications market but also in the mobile market as Wi-Fi phone is feasible in the wireless LAN environment. Furthermore, bundled service of Wi-Fi and cellular phone service will be launched soon, and the next version will be a mobile VoIP service operating like a cellular phone service. Thus, we have almost ended up with the same problem as when the VoIP service enters into the fixed telecommunications service market. But mobile VoIP service has more obstacles compared with the VoIP service in the fixed market because the expensive license fee is already paid. Thus, in this paper, we forecast the regulatory issues arising when the wireless or mobile VoIP service enterprises enter the mobile market, by analyzing both aspects of the incumbent operator's rights and the market liberalization. (c) 2006 PICMET.
- KSP Keywords
- Low quality, Market mechanism, Mobile VoIP, Regulatory Framework, Regulatory issues, Service Provider, Service market, Telecommunication service, VoIP service, WI-Fi, Wireless Local Area Networks(WLANs)