Bill and Keep as a Solution for Mobile-to-Mobile Interconnection of Korea

Bill and keep is an alternative arrangement that network costs for providing termination services are recovered from end users without financial settlements between telecom providers. Based on voluntary agreement most mobile operators use it for exchange of mobile traffics between them in the US. It is also commonly adopted in the exchange of internet traffics between internet backbone operators. However, it is required prior conditions such as the balance of traffic and the consensus among mobile network providers in order for it to be used commercially. This paper summarizes literature reviews and case studies on bill & keep, and then shows that supporting conditions and objecting environments co-exist together from the analysis regarding the possibility of adopting bill and keep in mobile-mobile termination of Korea.