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http://dx.doi.org/10.7840/kics.2013.38C.1.78

Access Network Separation and Facility Sharing: Recent Cases and Their Implications  

Lee, Jongyong (한국전자통신연구원 모바일사업전략연구팀)
Ku, Jung-Eun (한국전자통신연구원 모바일사업전략연구팀)
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The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences / v.38C, no.1, 2013 , pp. 78-88 More about this Journal
Abstract
In Korea, no institutional tool or regulation exists by which a retail business in charge of gathering and maintaining subscribers can be guaranteed independence from the wholesale business division of a fixed incumbent provider of essential facilities such as ducts, poles and copper or fiber cables, which may also be offering the same products to its rivals. For that reason, a wholesale division may have an incentive to intentionally disrupt the sharing of facilities requested by competitive operators in cooperation with the retail division. Ultimately, the facility sharing process will remain inactive when there is a lack of equivalent access to the fixed access network. Therefore, this paper analyzes recent cases of access network separation and suggests long-term measures for the successful implementation of the sharing of facilities.
Keywords
Access Network Separation; Facilities Sharing; Organizational Separation; Functional Separation; Access Network Regulation;
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