ITS 3019 - Information and Telecommunications Policy I

• Students will be able to describe and evaluate the practices and history of U.S. telecommunications regulation and policy making.
• Students will be able to describe and evaluate the legal foundations of regulation and policy as identified in the U.S. Constitution, Federal Communications Commission Orders, and in U.S. case law.
• Students will be able to describe the economic underpinnings of the motivation for regulation in telecommunication and information technology markets.
• Students will be able to describe the motivations for regulating companies that control “bottleneck inputs” and proposed solutions to the economic problems presented by the characteristics of broadband market
• Students will be able to describe the motivations for public telecommunications resource management, and solutions to the economic problems presented by public resource management.
• Students will be able to describe economic and policy issues associated with network interconnection, and how interconnection differs in the Public Switched Telecommunications Network and Internet.
• Students will be able to describe and evaluate theories of how policy makers perform their responsibilities.
• Students will be able to describe and analyze policy debates in the United States that exemplify a broad range of historical and contemporary concerns associated with telecommunication and information technol
• Students will be able to advocate for policy choices, from the perspective of various industry actors, and/or policy makers, using the knowledge and skills gained in this course.