An analysis of telecommunications market structure and carriers´ strategies in Korea

Author

Rim, Myung-Hwan ; Kwon, Kum-Ju ; Lee, Hyun-Woo

Volume

1

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

184

Abstract

The Korean government awarded two 3G license by a comparative evaluation system in December 15, 2000. In the beginning, it was supposed to select three operators of two W-CDMA technology and one CDMA technology. But only two IMT-2000 licenses were granted to Korea Telecom IMT (KT IMT) and SK based on W-CDMA technology because other providers, LG Glocom and Korea IMT-2000 Consortium, failed to get the minimum total points or least partial points for IMT-2000 license. A third licence using CDMA technology was awarded later in 2001 and commercial service will begin in May 2002. This paper analyzes the Korean mobile telecommunications market structure and carriers´ 3G strategies in Europe and Asia telecommunications market. In the prospect of Korean mobile telecommunications market structure, it also includes the trend of the mobile telecommunications and service deployment from 2G/2.5G to 3G. We discuss how the market structure and business direction of five existing operators are changing by comparing the strategies of the Korean 3G service carriers

Keywords

code division multiple access; management of change; mobile radio; 3G strategies; Asia; CDMA technology; Europe; IMT-2000 licenses; Korea; Korea Telecom IMT; Korean mobile telecommunications market structure; SK; W-CDMA technology; telecommunications carriers´ strategies; telecommunications market structure; Asia; Business; Consumer electronics; Europe; Government; Licenses; Multiaccess communication; Telecommunications; Telephone sets; Telephony;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Management of Engineering and Technology, 2001. PICMET '01. Portland International Conference on

Conference_Location

Portland, OR

Print_ISBN

1-890843-06-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PICMET.2001.951906

Filename

951906