Telecommunications Policy and Issues

Catalog description

The objective of this course is to enlighten students relative to telecommunications policy and standards sufficiently, in order for them to be able to deal with the real-world issues that confront telecommunications professionals on a daily basis. Students will not be prepared to act as regulatory experts or to replace specialized experts with legal training, but should be sufficiently cognizant of pertinent issues to know when it is prudent to call in such forces. The domestic as well as the international regulatory, policy and standard arenas will be explored. This course helps students to understand that the telecommunications environment is greatly effected by technology, policy, security, and market forces with a primary focus on telecommunications policy and all that it entails.