Course Title: Strategic Planning for Telecom and Internet Innovations
Code: ФЕИТ202
ECTS points: 4 ECTS
Number of classes per week:2+0+0+2
Lecturer: Prof. d-r. Toni Janevski
Course Goals (acquired competencies): After completion of the course Strategic Planning for the telecom and Internet innovations the student is expected to understand the main principles of strategic planning and innovation in telecom and Internet environments. It is expected to be ready to create policies and strategies for development and have knowledge for management of telecom and Internet innovations.
Subject of the course content: Convergence in telecommunications. Broadband strategies and innovations. Development of policies. The role of standards. Innovation management. Google model, user generated contents. Apple iPhone model. Mobile and Internet telephony. Innovations in television (IPTV applications). “Killer” services/applications. Network neutrality, spectral neutrality. Management and governance of Internet.
Literature:
| Required Literature | ||||
| No. | Author | Title | Publisher | Year |
| 1. | Robert Marcus, Collins Hemingway | The Fifth Wave: A Strategic Vision for Mobile Internet Innovation, Investment and Return | Robert Marcus, Collins Hemingway | 2012 |
| 2. | ITU, Telecommunication Development Sector | Regulatory & Market Environment – Regulating Broadband Prices | ITU Broadband Series | 2012 |
| Additional Literature | ||||
| No. | Author | Title | Publisher | Year |
| 1. | IETF standards and documents | Request For Comments (RFC) | IETF | |
| 2. | ITU standards and documents, 3GPP standards | ITU recommendations, 3GPP recommendations | ITU, 3GPP | |
| 3. | IEEE Communications Magazine, IEEE Network, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking | Papers from IEEE journals | IEEE |
