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This course covers technological advancements in telecommunications and emerging wireless mobile systems, with emphasis on their business application: how the nature of these advances are driving business models and amplifying the strengths of today’s firms; how businesses can select, integrate, and apply telecom and emerging mobile systems and cloud services into their business processes to maximize their value creation value capture, and value delivery. Business applications and contents delivered by mobile systems in public and private sectors – such as in healthcare services (mHealth), in financial and banking industries (mCommerce), mobile money and credits in social entrepreneurship will be covered. Analysis and selection of the needed telecom and mobile technologies, necessary to support business applications and processes, are examined. This course enables the students to gain an in-depth understanding of different telecom network systems, their developments and international standards. Finally, managerial, business critical, and technical issues such as technology evaluation, cost vs. performance trade-offs analysis, requirements analysis and vendor selection as they are needed by today’s commercial and public organizations are covered.