유·무선 통합의 진화전망과 규제정책

Evolution and Regulatory Policy for FMC

Fixed mobile convergence(FMC) services have launched starting from the european countries since early 1990s, and have been expanding around the world. FMC services beginning with UMS in Korea have been introduced since June 2002. FMC services are expected to be in full swing in the near future due to the rapid development of digital Information-Communication technologies lately. FMC is also expected to bring the changes in attributes of telecommunications services, value-chain of telecommunications business and business model, furthermore to be linked up with telecommunications industry s overall structural change and regulatory policy change. In this context, we first reviewed the outline of FMC and then looked over the evolution of FMC service, terminal device, and network. Finally we discussed on the future regulatory policy in the era of FMC evolution.