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• Area Code Insanity Linc Madison tries to make sense of it all.
• Area Code Madness Eric Morson and John Cropper also try to keep up with it.
• Atlantic Sentinel Newfoundland's role in the Trans-Atlantic cable. Excellent history.
• Auditel, IncTelecom Bill Training and Auditing; careful audits can save you money each month!
• Australian Telecom Stewart Fist's reports from Australia.

• Canadian Report Weekly Bulletin of Canadian Telecom News.
• CALLING CARDS - A very good source of same
• Delphi Communication System World leader in embedded software and hardware designs for wireless applications.
• Digital Wireless The Digital Wireless Communications Forum.
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• Grave of Elisha Gray Don Parrish's site on an alternative telephone inventor.

• Federal Communications Commission Government web site.
• Fone Find Now you can match an unknown area code and prefix to a specific city.
• Get The Phone Revolution Engineering's contribution to telecom knowledge.
• GSM Operators GSM reference list.
• George Gilder! A look at the Discovery Institute.(See Gilder's website here.)
• Ham Radio Operators: Own a Domain Name Fred Atkinson Explains How it is Done

• ICSTIS UK Standards of Telephone Information Services.
• International Call Guide From USA Dial International Calls Correctly
• International Calling Cards A very useful and inexpensive way to make international calls.
• Indian Techonomist News Archives of Rishab Aiyer Ghosh news reports from India.
• International Telecommunication Union Telecom's international standards authority in Geneva.
• Lockheed-Martin NANPA Officially, the last word on who goes where, areacode-wise.
• Mike Sandman The Internet's Telecom Man! Check out his great online catalog here.
• National Emergency Number Assn An ongoing reference for discussions about 911 service.
• Other Links by Linc A massive collection of sites to visit I could not begin to name.

• P.G.P. Pretty Good Privacy/Network Security (Fred Atkinson)
• Phone Phreaks A look at a largely 'underground' culture relating to telephony.
• Phreak and Telebuse Abatement People like Ed Shuck make life difficult for phreaks.
• PHONE CARDS - A good source of same
• PREPAID CALLING CARDS
• Rob Slade and his work The man who writes the book reviews for the net.
• Price Check! Price Checking is Smart Shopping!
• Strowger Switch! (and more) Check out this *great* telecom historical site.
• Stuff Software Telecom Database Software.
• Sweden Telecom A look at telephones in Sweden (Sam Spens Clasen)

• Telephone Collectors Intl Antique phones; great links; more
• Telephone Directories on the Web (Robert Hoare)
• ICB Tollfree News Judith Oppenheimer, the net's 800 expert has a great mailing list for you.
• Telecom Guru - RFP Software These things don't require rocket science!
• Telcosupport.net Al Younker and some fellow telcom engineers give assistance for a small fee.

• UK-Telecom UK Office of Telecommunications.
• Westbay Forum An ongoing discussion forum for telecom engineers.
• Westbay White Papers White papers offering support to telecom engineers.

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