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The Trend of Competitive Structure in Telecommunications Industry : The Case of Voice Fixed and Mobile Service  

Kim, Moon-Soo (한국외국어대학교 산업경영공학부)
Kim, Byung-Woon (한국전자통신연구원, 기술전략본부)
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The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences / v.34, no.1B, 2009 , pp. 34-46 More about this Journal
Abstract
The remarkable growth of Korean telecommunication market has based on the introduction of competition as well as mobile technology like CDMA. It was well Down that such a conspicuous growth has been towed by mobile service rather than fixed telephone service. In telecommunications service the number of subscribers to mobile was over 40 millions in 2006 and also, while the traffic amount of fixed telephone has been more decreased, that of mobile, which already outnumbers the fixed, has been constantly increased and will be much more in future. It will accelerate the substitution of access and call demand of fixed service by mobile. This change of technology and demand does affect directly the market performance of telecommunications. And regulation has also an effect on market structure, which finally affects on market performance. In this paper we suppose the fixed and mobile telecommunications services are in a same industry. After reviewing the relations among the demand, cost, charge structure and revenue structure in the one fixed and mobile telecommunications market using the framework of an industrial structure analysis, we discuss the current issues of telecommunications regulation and implications for the future regulation.
Keywords
fixed and mobile service; market performance; demand; cost; charge; industrial structure analysis; regulation;
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