Case Study on Pricing Principle of Facilities Sharing and Its Implications

주요국 설비제공대가 산정방식에 대한 사례 분석

Facilities Sharing is defined as the access providers who is holding the telecommunications facilities rent their facilities to the access seekers who is not holding them to promote the fair competition among carriers in a narrow sense and to avoid the duplication of investment in a broad sense. MIC, the regulator in Korea, has revised the current policy of facilities access toward mandatory system. The purpose of this paper is to review the pricing principle of facilities sharing in major countries and to discuss the implications of this case study.