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An Alternative to Improve the Interconnection Arrangement of Mobile Communications Market: A Comparison between Bill & Keep vs. Calling Party's Network Pay Method

이동통신시장의 상호접속정산제도 개선 방안: Bill & Keep과 CPNP의 비교

  • 김문수 (한국외국어대학교, 산업경영공학과)
  • Received : 2010.08.30
  • Accepted : 2011.02.21
  • Published : 2011.03.31
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Abstract

This paper reviews the recent theoretical and empirical studies on the European countries that the bill and keep settlement between mobile operators is superior to the financial settlement like CPNP from the perspectives of social welfare and fare competition in market. Besides these the recent studies, considering the change of mobile wholesale market in Korea, the necessity to introduce the bill and keep settlement as an alternative for the current CPNP as well as policy implication is examined.

유럽의 이동통신선진국들을 중심으로 Bill & Keep이 CPNP방식에 비해서 사회후생 차원에서 그리고 공정경쟁의 활성화 차원에서 보다 우월하다는 최근의 연구들을 이론적인 측면과 실증적인 측면에서 고찰하고, 국내 이동통신시장에서의 서비스 및 수요 변화 등을 고려하여 현행 상호접속정산제도가 향후 Bill & Keep으로의 변화 필요성을 분석하여 정책적 시사점을 논의한다.

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