Regulatory Prospect of the VoIP Service in Wireless/Mobile Environment 


Vol. 31,  No. 10, pp. 929-935, Oct.  2006


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  Abstract

When the Internet phone service, generally PC-to-Phone, first entered into the telecommunications service market, no regulatory issues were arisen to manage the service within the regulatory framework because of it's low quality, no phone number assignment and etc. However, almost the same quality, more applications and cheaper price compared with the fixed telecommunications service, have changed the regulator’s policy allowing Internet phone service within market mechanism. While incumbent fixed telecommunications service enterprises had given with tremendous duties to continue the job categorized ‘facilities-based telecommunication service provider’, and which can be unreasonable and unfair if Internet phone service enterprises are allowed to enter into the fixed telecommunications market without any regulation. Thus, new regulatory framework has worked for the Internet phone service named the VoIP service generally in the fixed telecommunications market. Recently, VoIP is provided not only in the fixed telecommunications market but also in the mobile market as Wi-Fi phone is feasible in the wireless LAN environment. Furthermore, bundled service of Wi-Fi and cellular phone service will be launched soon, and the next version will be the mobile VoIP service operating like a cellular phone service. Hence, we will meet similar situation when the VoIP service enters into the fixed telecommunications service market. And, in this paper, we prospect the regulatory issues arising when the wireless or mobile VoIP service enterprises enter the mobile market, by analyzing possible scenarios.

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[IEEE Style]

Y. W. Ha, B. S. Cho, Y. S. Yoon, "Regulatory Prospect of the VoIP Service in Wireless/Mobile Environment," The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences, vol. 31, no. 10, pp. 929-935, 2006. DOI: .

[ACM Style]

Young Wook Ha, Byung Sun Cho, and Young Seog Yoon. 2006. Regulatory Prospect of the VoIP Service in Wireless/Mobile Environment. The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences, 31, 10, (2006), 929-935. DOI: .

[KICS Style]

Young Wook Ha, Byung Sun Cho, Young Seog Yoon, "Regulatory Prospect of the VoIP Service in Wireless/Mobile Environment," The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences, vol. 31, no. 10, pp. 929-935, 10. 2006.