With increasing competition in the mobile communication market in Korea, the policy of subsidising mobile handsets has become an on-going issue causing considerable controversy. This paper analyses the development of handset subsidy-related policies in Korea from 1997 to 2001. In particular, it...

The Korean mobile telecommunication services industry is entering a new transition period. This has been brought about by the market for mobile telecommunications reaching maturity, the launching of the IMT-2000 service and the scheduled introduction of mobile number portability. In response,...

In this paper, examination of the possibility of a 'double marginalization' problem existing in the Korean telecommunication industry is conducted and suggestions are made for the provision of a new scheme to eliminate this possibility by changing the pricing system for fixed-to-mobile calls....