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by authority- Korea Fair Trade Commission (KFTC) €72.1m 100 % · 1 case
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| Q4 2024 | 0 | – |
| Q1 2025 | 1 | €72.1m |
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| Q4 2025 | 0 | – |
| Q1 2026 | 0 | – |
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1 case
12 Mar 2025 SK Telecom Co., Ltd., KT Co., Ltd., LG Uplus Co., Ltd.Mobile cartel: SK Telecom, KT and LG Uplus jointly steered switching figures €72.1m
According to the KFTC (Korea Fair Trade Commission, Korea's competition authority), the three mobile network operators agreed in November 2015 to balance net gains and losses of new subscribers porting their numbers so that they would not concentrate on one operator, and implemented this until the end of September 2022 by coordinating their sales incentives for dealers with one another; they exchanged the information in a joint market monitoring group with the industry association KAIT. The KFTC issued cease-and-desist orders and provisionally set fines totalling KRW 114,026 million (SK Telecom KRW 42,662 million, KT KRW 33,029 million, LG Uplus KRW 38,334 million).
Self-regulatory bodies must not become a forum in which competitors coordinate customer gains and terms.
Cartel risks in industry bodies and self-regulation
- Authority / court
- Korea Fair Trade Commission (KFTC)
- Area of law
- Competition law · Cartels and collusion
- Legal basis
- Art. 40 Abs. 1 Nr. 3 MRFTA (Monopoly Regulation and Fair Trade Act)
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Telecoms, IT and software
- Published
- 12 Mar 2025
Original amount 114,026,000,000 KRW, converted at the ECB reference rate of 12 Mar 2025.
- KFTC press release (EN), 13 Mar 2025: KFTC Sanctions Three Telecommunication Companies for Collusion in Mobile Number Portability New Subscriber Adjustments Press release of an authority
- KFTC-Pressemitteilung (KO), 12.03.2025: 이동통신 3사의 담합행위 제재 Press release of an authority
- KFTC-Pressemitteilung (KO, PDF) mit Bußgeldtabelle je Unternehmen und Rechtsgrundlage Press release of an authority
Checked against the official source on 4 Oct 2026 · Direct link