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Defendants are not guilty.
Reasons
1. Facts charged;
1. Defendant A is a person who operates a special correspondence officer with the trade name, Songpa-gu Seoul Metropolitan Government CD Co., Ltd.
No person shall provide services that can display a false phone number of a caller for profit, such as forging a false phone number of a caller.
Nevertheless, the Defendant, around August 20, 2015, given the Internet phone number F numbers that begin to 070 to Internet telephone subscribers E at the above corporation B office, provided services using the same method from that time to July 11, 2016, including, but not limited to, the change of the phone number when the phone number was sent to the addressee when the phone number was sent to G. In addition, the Defendant provided services using the phone number of the sender 11,836 times in total as shown in the annexed crime list.
2. Defendant B, as described in paragraph (1), committed the above offenses against Defendant A, who is the representative of Defendant, in relation to the Defendant’s business.
2. Determination
A. The summary of the Defendants’ assertion in Defendant B, a face-to-face business, changed the phone number of the Internet phone to a representative number, and submitted a representative number certificate and an application for change of the phone number. The Defendants verified whether the nominal person is the same, and verified whether the phone number becomes effective by using a representative number, and changed the phone number to a representative number. Thus, it constitutes the provision of legitimate call number change service.
B. Article 84-2(2) of the Telecommunications Business Act does not provide services that can display false phone numbers of a caller for profit-making purposes, such as duplicating the phone numbers of a caller.
Provided, That there is a justifiable reason, such as for the public interest or providing convenience to the receiver.