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A Study on Rational Improvement of the Gift Regulation in the Telecommunications Market

통신시장의 경품규제에 대한 합리적 개선방안 연구

  • Kim, Yong-Beom (Dept. of Business Administration, Korea Polytechnic University) ;
  • Kwak, Jeong Ho (Dept. of Global Entrepreneurship, Hoseo University)
  • Received : 2017.10.27
  • Accepted : 2017.11.11
  • Published : 2017.12.31

Abstract

A variety of customized marketing strategies are being implemented in the telecommunications market, including the offering of gifts to consumers, as competition in the market is being restructured with the focus on bundled products. However, the Korea Communications Commission (KCC) has recently imposed fines for user discrimination on telecommunication carriers whose marketing strategies have included the award of excessive prizes. In that regard, various issues related to the suitability and appropriate limit of the current gift regulation in the telecommunications market have been raised. Since the Fair Trade Commission, which had a similar scheme to that of the KCC, abolished the regulation on gifts in July 2016, disputes have arisen as to whether the current regulation on gifts is practically effective from the perspective of consumer benefit. In other words, discussions on the rationality of the theoretical and empirical grounds for the regulation on gifts only in the telecommunication market but not in other commodities markets have begun. As such, this study aims to empirically analyze the suitability of the current regulation on gifts in the domestic telecommunications market under the new competitive environment centered on bundled products, and to seek the rational improvement of, and infer the implications for, the regulation on gifts in the telecommunications market based on the results of the analysis.

통신시장의 경쟁구조가 결합상품 시장을 중심으로 재편되면서 경품제공을 비롯하여 소비자를 위한 다양한 맞춤형 마케팅 전략이 시행되고 있다. 이러한 가운데, 최근 방송통신위원회에서는 통신사업자들의 마케팅 전략 중에서 과도한 경품지급에 대해 이용자차별 등을 근거로 과징금을 부여하였는데, 이와 관련하여 통신시장에서 현행 경품규제의 적합성 및 적정한 상한수준 등의 쟁점이슈가 다각적으로 제기되고 있다. 특히 2016년 7월부터 방송통신위원회와 유사한 제도를 유지했던 공정거래위원회에서 경품규제를 폐지함에 따라 현행 경품규제가 소비자후생의 관점에서 실질적으로 유효한지에 대한 논란도 나타나고 있는 실정이다. 즉, 다른 일반상품 시장과 달리 통신시장에만 경품규제를 유지해야 하는 이론적 및 실증적 근거의 타당성에 대한 논의가 필요하다는 것이다. 이에 본 연구에서는 결합상품 위주의 새로운 경쟁 환경 하에서 국내 통신시장에서 시행되는 현행 경품규제의 타당성을 실증적 근거를 기반으로 분석하고, 이를 기반으로 통신시장의 경품규제에 대한 합리적 개선방안 및 시사점을 모색하고자 한다.

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