We moved ENTS 631 to the fall semester to provide more business options in the fall semester for you.
Now I need a few more students to register.

Please consider adding 631 to your schedule. I've copied the course objectives below to give you and idea of what we do in the course, and enclosed the full syllabus. The competitive strategy material is complementary to marketing strategy. And with so much happening in the US and other countries around "economic stimulus", tehre is much to talk about. And in the arena of infrastructure/services development (SEACOM cable down East Coast of Africa and new cable from Europe to US through Iceland for example), we will have much to talk about as well - plus I have arranged for access to the Telegeography Global DataComms database for a period of time as we look at what is happening in developing countries in data communications.

Course Objectives
In this course we will look at competitive strategies and policy analyses for the network economy and the age of information goods, and how to apply these principles and tools to the telecommunications and information technology industries. As businesses increasingly rely on telecommunications to participating in the “Digital Economy,” they rely on transmission, reception, and processing of digital information to manage their operations and explore new market opportunities. In this course, we will examine some of the characteristics of telecommunications industry and how it shapes businesses in ways that are unique to the digital economy. In doing so, we will grasp a better understanding of how we can best manage these opportunities.
We will also cover how telecommunications policy and regulation impacts competitive strategy in the telecommunications industry, including how policy is made in the United States including the roles of the FCC, the Commerce Department, Congress, etc.; the history of telecommunications law and policy; and the major current policy issues and the arguments surrounding them (for example, product standards, deregulation, anti-trust, trade barriers, network neutrality). It will also provide a global perspective, by looking at other countries, how they regulate their telecommunications industries, with a focus on developing countries, and comparisons with U.S. telecommunications policy.

I hope you'll join us. Hope to see you Tuesday evening.

Regards,
Don Riley