Telecom Development in Korea: Substitution and Integration of Fixed-Mobile Services and Regulatory Implications
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چکیده
The past decade has seen phenomenal growth of mobile service in Korea. Growth in mobile services began to spurt in the late 1990s when all the other sectors of the economy were suffering the effects of financial crises and undergoing a painful restructuring process. Mobile infrastructure facilitated the fast flow of information among workers and investors and helped the economy to get over turmoil by reducing coordination costs among those economic agents. Both the fixed and mobile networks seemed to reinforce each other at the early stages of mobile development, working as vehicles for telecom development in Korea.
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