Jul 02, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024
[Archived Catalog]
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ITS 4110 - Pricing of Telecommunications Services
Examination of pricing, price-setting and price changes for telecommunication services. Pricing topics examined include: competitive market pricing; regulated pricing; flat-rate and measured service pricing; pricing of equipment; pricing of local, interconnection, and long-distance services; and the pricing of mobile and Internet-based telephone services.
Requisites: ITS 3019
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
- Students will be able to describe the current level of prices across the many telecom markets, their history and future trends.
- Students will be able to analyze the impact of different forms of regulation on wholesale and retail prices.
- Students will be able to describe the differences between market-driven changes in price and cost-driven changes in price.
- Students will be able to analyze the impact of wholesale prices and wholesale price reforms on retail prices.
- Students will be able to describe the role of prices in a market economy.
- Students will be able to explain why, when and where competitive policy initiatives can have a positive impact on consumer prices.
- Students will be able to explain how prices are set and how they change in different market structures.
- Students will be able to explain causes and effects of price changes on consumer demand for products and services in different and related markets.
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