Business Telecommunications Telecommunications has become a vital strategic tool of organizations in the digital age.
Telecommunications networks provide the foundation upon which electronic commerce is based.
The complexity of telecommunications technology, its regulatory history and its close interaction with computing technologies have led to the proliferation of a wide variety of services, subtle competitive interactions among industry players and highly varied approaches to seemingly similar business problems. The richness of the telecommunications business environment has created a demand for trained professionals to work both within the telecommunications industry itself and within a broad range of telecommunications user organizations. The Business Telecommunications concentration is aimed at training students to work in both of these settings. The Baltimore-Washington region has traditionally been a major center for telecommunications companies with organizations such as Bell Atlantic, Comsat, Hughes Network Systems, MCI and Sprint either being headquartered in the region or having a major presence in the region. A number of major consulting companies in the area have developed very large telecommunications practices.