스마트폰의 확대에 따른 통신법상 경쟁정책 문제의 검토

A smartphone is a mobile phone that offers more advanced computing ability and connectivity than a contemporary feature phone. While most feature phones are able to run applications based on platforms such as Java ME, a smartphone allows the user to run and preemptively multitask applications that are native to the underlying hardware. Viewed from the smartphone’s function providing a platform for application developers and using the users it, an operating system performs an important role, specially at the choice of smartphone. So operating systems and smartphones have a important effect on the competition and structure of telecommunications market. In this context, the exclusive relationship between smartphone maker and telecommunications carrier should be exercised caution from a perspective of telecommunications law and competition law.