PRIORITIZING TELECOMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES FOR LONG-RANGE RESEARCH-AND-DEVELOPMENT PLANNING TO THE YEAR 2006

This paper concerns telecommunications technologies prioritization for long-range R&D planning at the Korea Telecommunication Authority (KTA ), which is the primary common carrier in Korea. Criteria weighting an d technological importance ranking were determined by means of the Ana lytic Hierarchy Process as a decision aid, along with hierarchical rep resentation and pairwise comparisons. The opinions derived from three divisions of KTA were analyzed and aggregated. Such aggregated priorit ization weighting of technologies allows the corporation management to use it for funding decisions about technological aspects of its long- range planning for R&D projects during the period from 1992 to 2006; e specially those concerning baseline budget level selection and the sco pe of research activities.