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Welcome to The James H. and Mary B. Quello Center for Telecommunication Management & Law at Michigan State University, dedicated to original research on current issues of information and communication management, law and policy!  The Quello Center is located in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences and affiliated with the Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies, and Media at Michigan State University.

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May 2-3, 2008, Fordham University, New York

Information and the Information Economy

Co-sponsored with the McGannon Center at Fordham University and the Intellectual Property & Communications Law Program at Michigan State University.

 

Recently

April 23, 2008, 1-6 pm, Washington, D.C.

2008 Quello Communication Law and Policy Symposium

Communications Policy in an IP-Environment

Keynote: The Honorable Robert M. McDowell, Commissioner, FCC

Program with Presentations | Speaker bios |

Location: National Press Club, 529 14th Street NW, Washington, D.C.

The symposium is free to the public but registration is requested.

 

 

Upcoming

 

May 30-31, 2008, Meersburg, Germany

Complexity and Large Technical Systems

Co-organized with Volker Schneider at the University of Konstanz, Germany, co-funded by a grant from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany.

 

 

Quello Center Policy Commentary

700 MHz Auction Rules (August 1, 2007)

On July 31, 2007, the FCC adopted a critical order which might significantly  influence U.S. communications in the years to come.  A Quello Center Policy Commentary highlights the main impacts.

 

Professor Greenberg on Media Violence (May 15, 2007)

On May 15, 2007, the Quello Center released the first of a new series of commentaries by leading experts on current issues of public interest. Each written commentary is accompanied by a Podcast, exploring the issues more in-depth.

Violent TV Programming and Children

Policy Commentary 01-07 | Podcast

Dr. Bradley S. Greenberg, University Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Communication, Telecom-munication, Information Studies, and Media at Michigan State University comments on the recent FCC Report on media violence and children.

Dr. Greenberg may be contacted at the Quello Center, +1.517.432.8001.

 

Research at the Quello Center

Jun Zhang and Tithi Chattopadhyay, doctoral students at Michigan State University and Quello Center research assistants, modeling the triple play decisions of telecom service providers as part of a study of the economics of multi-play. Earlier findings were presented at a conference in Beijing in 2006 and are now written up for publication.

   

 

The Quello Center can be contacted at quello@msu.edu or:
Secretariat
Joy Mulvaney
Administrative Assistant
406 Com Arts Bldg.
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824-1212
Phone: +1.517.432.8001
Fax: +1.517.432.8065
Email: mulvaney@msu.edu
Steve Wildman (on leave 2007)

Co-Director

Phone: +1.517.432.8004
Email: swildman@msu.edu
 
Johannes M. Bauer (acting 2007)
Co-Director
Phone: +1.517.432.8003
Email: bauerj@msu.edu

Directions to MSU and the College of Communication Arts and Science

 

New Publications

J.M. Bauer & E. Bohlin, "From Static to Dynamic Regulation", forthcoming in Intereconomics, 3, 2008

J. M. Bauer "Dynamic Effects of Network Neutrality", International Journal of Communication, 2007, http://www.ijoc.org.

Research projects

Financial Aspects of

Malware & SPAM

With TU Delft, for International Telecommunication Union, Geneva

The Economics of Malware

Dedicated to developing a deeper understanding of the problems caused by malicious software (with TU Delft, underwritten by OECD, Paris)

Modeling Dynamic Communications Systems

Explores the application of complex evolutionary systems  theory to problems of ICT management and governance.

Archived events

2006 Quello Symposium

Presentations available for download.

2006 Quello Lecture

Developments in

Communications Policy

The Honorable Deborah Taylor Tate

Commissioner

Federal Communications Commission

Michigan State University

October 30, 2006

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Updated 05/03/08

Contact Johannes M. Bauer with comments

 
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