KCC meets Apple, Samsung to discuss spiraling smartphone costs
![The Korea Communications Commission building in Gwacheon, Gyeonggi [YONHAP]](https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/data/photo/2023/11/29/086227a9-4697-4b0a-a356-d92607e4f150.jpg)
The Korea Communications Commission building in Gwacheon, Gyeonggi [YONHAP]
Korea's telecommunications regulator sat down with Samsung Electronics and Apple to discuss ways to ease the consumer burden of rising smartphone prices and repair costs on Wednesday.
The Korea Communications Commission (KCC) said on Wednesday that it held a meeting with executives from the two companies to request them to expand the number of device choices or stimulate the distribution of secondhand devices as consumers feel financially burdened by telecommunication costs.
The regulator said that people are weighed down due to rising telecommunication fees due to escalating factory prices for smartphones and expensive repairs.
“Cell phones have become an indispensable means in people's daily lives to utilize its telecommunication services and content,” the KCC chief Lee Dong-kwan said. “The KCC will work to consistently come up with policies that can ease the financial burden on purchasing devices and cut down on telecommunication fees.
“We hope the smartphone manufacturers will actively collaborate on local smartphone distribution under healthy market competition.”
BY LEE JAE-LIM [lee.jaelim@joongang.co.kr]
with the Korea JoongAng Daily
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