The Economics of Telecommunication Services

Telecommunications have evolved to embrace almost all aspects of our everyday life, including education, research, health care, business, banking, entertainment, space, remote sensing, meteorology, defense, homeland security, and social media, among others. With such progress in Telecom, it became evident that specialized telecommunication engineering education programs are necessary to accelerate the pace of advancement in this field. These programs will focus on network science and engineering; have curricula, labs, and textbooks of their own; and should prepare future engineers and researchers for several emerging challenges. The IEEE Communications Society's Telecommunication Engineering Education (TEE) movement, led by Tarek S. El-Bawab, resulted in recognition of this field by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET), November 1, 2014. The Springer's Series Textbooks in Telecommunication Engineering capitalizes on this milestone, and aims at designing, developing, and promoting high-quality textbooks to fulfill the teaching and research needs of this discipline, and those of related university curricula.