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Rational Regulatory Framework Regarding the Appraisal of Mobile Telecommunication Market Domination

이동통신의 시장지배력 평가에 대한 합리적 규제방안 - 이동전화 도매착신 시장을 중심으로 -

  • Received : 2017.02.10
  • Accepted : 2017.02.20
  • Published : 2017.04.30
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Abstract

As the industrial structure of the mobile telecommunications market is transforming into the ICT ecosystem centered on smartphones, the regulatory system conforming to the new ICT environment has become the main subject of discussion in key developed countries. The EU segmented the mobile phone service into wholesale and retail. Simultaneously, the EU appraised mobile telecommunication carriers' market domination in segmented markets to continuously improve the scheme to promote competition in the telecommunications market. In Korea, also, there is discussion about adopting the EU scheme to segment the mobile phone market definition more finely and taking measures to appraise the market domination in accordance with object appraisal criteria. As such, this study analyzes whether the current criteria for appraising the wholesale termination rate market domination under the ICT's domestic mobile telecommunication ecosystem is adequate and presents the rational improvement measures reflecting the theoretically suggested evaluation factors.

이동통신시장의 산업구조가 스마트폰이 중심이 되는 ICT 생태계로 변화하면서, 새로운 ICT 환경에 부합하는 규제체계가 주요 선진국을 중심으로 다각적으로 논의되고 있다. 이 중에서, EU에서는 이동전화서비스를 도매와 소매로 구분하고, 세분화된 시장에서 이동통신사업자의 시장지배력 보유를 평가함으로써, 이동통신시장의 경쟁을 활성화하기 위한 규제제도 개선을 지속적으로 추진하고 있다. 이러한 가운데, 국내에서도 EU 방식을 도입하여 이동전화의 시장획정(market definition)을 현재보다 세분화하고, 객관적 평가기준에 따라 해당 사업자의 시장지배력 보유여부를 공정하게 판단하기 위한 방안이 논의되고 있다. 이에 본 연구에서는 ICT 생태계 환경 하에서 국내 이동통신 착신도매시장의 현행 시장지배력 평가를 위한 판단기준이 통신환경에 적합한지를 분석하고, 이론적으로 제기되는 새로운 평가요소의 반영 등을 포함한 시장지배력 평가에 대한 합리적 제도개선 및 시사점을 제시하고 있다.

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