able to such extent.Under the Basic Telecommunications Law and the Telecommunications Business Law, in cases where a Network Service Provider competes with a Value Added Service Provider in the provision of value added services, the Network Service Provider is prohibited from engaging in any anti-competitive conduct such as cross-subsidization, predatory pricing, unauthorized disclosure of customer-proprietary network information without the customer's authorization, undue delay in announcing technical changes to its network or network interface, or discriminatory access to network services of functions. Thus, the MOC is in the process of developing a policy on competition safeguards, including the open network service provision and cost-subsidization. Under the Basic Telecommunications Law and the Telecommunications Business Law, KTA and DACCA, the two general service providers, are also strictly regulated as common carriers. They must report service rates and standard terms and conditions of their service contracts to the MOC. Although the Law Concerning Standard Terms and Conditions is generally applicable to standardized contracts, it is irrelevant to the extent that such contracts are approved by the MOC. They also cannot refuse to provide their services without justifiable grounds under the Telecommunications Business Law. Chapter 5:Literature Review Eun-Ju Kim states that "policy determines a nation's telecommuncations competence" (Kim 118). She states that policy in the field of telecommunications has changed from regulation to liberalization. Government produced policy change "aimed at encouraging managerial efficiency in state-owned industries through reducing government intervention" (Kim 120) She further states that the primary policy in the 1980's can be summed up as the introduction of liberalization or decentralization through separating the functions of policy making and operating facilities and services in the fi...
