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South Korean cellcos agree registration shutdown policy with KCC [TeleGeography CommsUpdate](TeleGeography CommsUpdate Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) South Korea's three mobile network operators – SK Telecom (SKT), KT Corp and LG Uplus – are all said to have reached an agreement with the Korea Communications Commission (KCC) on a customer registration shutdown system in the event that a carrier receives an excessive number of subscribers from another company. According to JoongAng Daily, under the plans, which will be implemented after 19 May, the 'circuit breaker policy' will automatically shut down a carrier's customer registration system if it signs up more than 30,000 new customers per day from other companies or brings in 24,000 customers or more for two straight days. Newly appointed KCC chief Choi Sung-jun is said to have suggested that the system will prevent mobile carriers from using subsidies to boost performance, with the executive cited as saying: 'The government is determined to root out illegal subsidies and thinks that competition between carriers should be based on price and service quality … Regarding illegal subsidies, the KCC will continue searching for solutions strictly based on the law … Some measures could be painful for the companies, but they are aimed at stabilising the market.' (c) 2014 PriMetrica, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Provided by Syndigate.info, an Albawaba.com company |