April 26, 2016 Holding Meeting for Telecommunications Market Validation

The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC) will hold a meeting for telecommunications market validation. This meeting aims to obtain advice from an objective and professional standpoint and ensure MIC’s substantial analysis and verification of the trends of the telecommunications market, reinforce the functions of telecommunications carriers to monitor the appropriateness of their business, and maintain the administrative management of the telecommunications market highly efficiently and effectively.

Purpose
The telecommunications business field has been facing radical changes, including the structural change of the telecommunications market as a result of the rapid development of ICT and the emergence of new business models. Accordingly, it has become important to grasp, analyze, and verify the trends of the telecommunications market precisely and appropriately and reflect the results in the development of governmental policies within the framework of Telecommunications Business Act on an ex-post regulation basis.
MIC will hold this meeting by inviting academic experts in order to obtain advice from an objective and professional standpoint and maintain the administrative management of the telecommunications market highly efficiently and effectively while ensuring MIC’s substantial analysis and verification of the trends of the market and reinforcing the functions of telecommunications carriers to monitor the appropriateness of their business.

Contact

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International Policy Division, Global ICT Strategy Bureau, MIC

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