Telecommunications & Media
MVNOs seek counterpunch with expanded data QoS option and lower wholesale rates
South Korea’s budget mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) industry, squeezed by the three carriers’ integrated plans and broader data quality-of-service options, is preparing a response after the government moved to cut wholesale rates and extend a 400 Kbps data QoS option to some MVNO plans. The policy package also lowers 5G revenue-sharing wholesale rate ratios by up to 3 percentage points and expands spectrum fee relief for smaller MVNOs from 50 percent to 90 percent.
