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Last revised April 3, 2009.

Telecommunications Publishers and Information Sources

• A Bell Tolls, Long Distance Telephone and Telecommunications Clearinghouse.
• American Telemedicine Association.
• America's Network magazine
• Area code information from LINCS.
• Avemacorp Telecom Cost Management and Telecom Audit.
• Lightwave magazine. Magazine covering worldwide fiber Optics communications technology, applications, market and trends for component, subsystem, and system vendors; carriers and service providers; and end-users. Current news and features about fiber optic products, fiberoptic cabling, fiber to the premise, SONET and SDH multiplexers, DWDM, fiber optic testing, fiber optic devices, fiber optic market, optical fibre
• Cabling Installation & Maintenance magazine. Cabling solutions for fiber and copper communications systems. Cable installation issues cover coaxial, twisted-pair, fiber-optic, zipcord and network management. Cable contractors worldwide also listed.
• Local 2000 of the Canadian Auto Workers union represents clerical and technical workers at Allstream, formerly AT&T Canada.
• Canadian Society of Telehealth (CST). It promotes all aspects of telehealth, including telemedicine, telehomecare, telenursing, e-health, health telematics, health informatics.
• Canadian Railway Telegraph History.
• Institute for Communication Technology Management (CTM), University of Southern California
• Center for Telecommunications Research at Columbia University.
• KO Telemedicine.
Delivers clinical, educational and administrative services via videoconferencing and advanced information communication technologies to First Nation communities in Ontario.
• commNOW Inc., a provider of research, analysis and insight, supporting the telecommunications industry, worldwide.
• Communications Management Association, United Kingdom, formerly the Telecommunications Managers Association.
• EURIM - The Information Society Alliance (United Kingdom) EURIM brings together politicians, officials and industry to help improve the quality of policy formation, consultation, scrutiny, implementation and monitoring in support of the creation of a globally competitive, socially inclusive and democratically accountable information society. It works across all boundaries to help set the agenda, stage constructive debate and report on progress.
• Communications News, a U.S. magazine for telecommunications and data communications users.
• D&B/Gale Industry Reference Handbooks: Telecommunications. A printed guidebook on telecommunications for public and academic libraries, published by Gale Group (now known as Cengage Gale) in collaboration with Dun & Bradstreet.
• M2 PressWIRE.
• Dead Media Project. Some interesting historical notes about semaphores and telegrams.
• hot telecom of Montreal offers telecommunication reports and services to the international telecommunication community.
• Insight, which operates the Middle East Converging Telecom conferenc in Dubai.
• Lightwave Magazine covers fiber-optic communications technology and applications worldwide.
• Lynx Network Services. Global Wireless and Mobile Network Services for Companies. Wireless and Mobile Strategies, Planning and Network Management.
• World Telephone Numbering Guide. by Dave Leibold, another Canadian telecommunications and transportation expert.
• FTTH Council (fiber to the home) conference.
• FML. telecommunications fraud prevention consultants.
• Communications Law and Policy page of Professor Jerry Kang of the UCLA law school.
• International DataBases. Global call accounting and tariff databases with rating software.
• International Institute of Telecommunications, Montreal. Focuses on academic and industrial training, and on the development and validation of new applications and new services.
• Local Calling Guide. Contains local calling, area code, and prefix information for Canada, the United States of America, and other countries which are part of the North American Numbering Plan.
• www.mobilein.com. MobileIN. Information portal discusses mobile communications, intelligent networks and applications. It provides tutorials, white papers and other resources about mobile communications.
• Mobile Network Security. Consultancy in London, UK offers end-to-end technical and business services to the telecommunications sector.
• Multimedia Telecommunication News, reporting on reporting on emerging telecommunications technologies.
• My Sisters Telegraphic. Description of book on women telegraph operators, 1846-1950, published by Ohio University Press.
• National Capital Institute of Telecommunications, Ottawa. Describes itself as "a fourth pillar organization that unites the capabilities of the National Capital region's federal laboratories, universities, colleges, global corporations and small and medium enterprises to engage in managed strategic research thrusts."
• Network World Fusion. Web site of Network World, a leading networking periodical.
• PhoneContractors.com. Find telephone wiring, installation and repair contractors by zip code. Technicians add new inside jacks, outlets, lines, cable, wire, for home, residential and business phone systems.
• Phone + magazine.
• Pivotel. Montreal consulting firm provides independent telecom advice and optimization services.
• Point Topic Ltd., a British news and in-depth analysis service about Internet access market, technology and applications. Topics include the 56k modem, V.90 markets, DSL Project Directory, ADSL, DSP technology.
• Praesidium Services Ltd. telecommunications fraud management.
• Rediff - Telecom. Telecommunications news from India.
• STIET, University of Michigan (Socio-Technical Infrastructure for Electronic Transactions) incentive-centered design (ICD) program at The University of Michigan. Formerly Program for Research on the Information Economy.
• Quentin Sager Consulting Software Solutions, a software and database developer which offers detailed NPA NXX databases and a free Web-based NPA NXX look-up service.
• Tele-Tech Services. A provider of Local Calling Area and NPA-NXX Databases covering the North American Numbering Plan.
• TRS - Telecom Resource Service, LLC
• Unified Communications (Reading, UK))
• Worldwide Business Research. The company has produced trade shows and conferences for the call center and telecom markets in the past, but its site doesn't show any upcoming events in these fields.
• Réseaux & Télécoms, a telecommunications magazine in France.
• SMi Group, a telecommunications publisher and conference organizer in the U.K. Publishes market analysis reports on the European telecommunications sector.
• Telcodata communications database.
• International Prepaid Communications Association, formerly International Telecard Association, trade association for companies that issue or sell prepaid telephone cards. (unable to locate, May 2005)
• TelecomCareers.Net - a telecommunications job site. Post and search resumes and jobs. Hundreds of helpful telecom and job hunting links.
• Telecommunications Policy Research Conference. An annual event: the next Research Conference on Communication, Information and Internet Policy will be held at some point in September or October 2007 at The National Center for Technology and Law, George Mason University School of Law.
• Telecommunications Risk Management Association. Fights fraud against telecommunications companies.
• www.TelephonyWorld.com, a comprehensive on-line resource for the computer telephony and communication industry on the net.
• Telephone Collectors International, a non-profit historical association for collectors and hobbyists.
• US Telephone Service Directory (Inside Wiring Contractors & Local Service Providers) U.S. Directories of contractors who add and repair inside wiring and jacks and local telephone service providers (local exchange carriers).
• Telephone World. Information on telephones, the telephone network, and related telecommunications systems.
• TelephonyIndex - IVR, Call Centre and CTI Resource.
• VoiceNews, reporting on voice processing technology.
• VoIPtroubleshooter.com. Site discusses how to troubleshoot VoIP problems, and offers free online diagnostic tools and background information on voice quality and packet statistics.
• Massachusetts Telecommunications Council, an industry association.
• Simba Information Inc., a publisher of telecommunications-related reports and newsletters.
• Telco Exchange, Digital Line Pricing Tools (for quoting digital line service)
• Telecommunications magazine.
• Telecommunications Association of Michigan.
• Telematrix Communications Corp., a New York telecommunications consulting firm with a number of good links.
• Telehealth Association of Ontario.
• Telemedicine links at the Open Directory Project.
• Telephony magazine
• Voice and Data magazine from India.
• Questionnaire for Consultants and Consulting Organizations Directory (may be of interest to telecommunications consultants).
• Questionnaire for Telecommunications Directory, a directory of telecommunications systems and services published by Gale Cengage (formerly Thomson Gale) of Michigan. Description of the Telecommunications Directory.
• University of Southern California, Institute for Communication Technology Management (CTM).
• Pioneers, formerly known as Telephone Pioneers of America, a volunteer organization for telecommunications industry employees and retirees in the U.S., Canada and Mexico.
• Worldwide Corporate Network. See also http://www.b2bnetwork.com/.
• 10-10PhoneRates.com. Information about dial-around long distance rates in the U.S.
• A Social History of Canadian Telecommunications. 1995 article from Canadian Journal of Communication by Dwayne Winseck, a lecturer at the Centre for Mass Communication Research, University of Leicester, Leicester, U.K. By the same author: Canadian Telecommunications: A History and Political Economy of Media Reconvergence (1997).
• Campaign for Unmetered Telecommunications. British group, now defunct, that opposed charges for local calls.
• CarrierHotels.com an source of news and information about carrier hotels, which are neutral colocation facilities for telecommunications carriers.
• Send a fax using the tpc.int system.
• Centre of Excellence for Communications and Information Technology, part of the Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE) Inc. Formerly Communications and Information Technology Ontario (CITO), and prior to that the Telecommunications Research Institute of Ontario.
• Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada, which represents some employees at Bell Canada and other telecommunications companies, as well as some employees at workplaces not related to telecommunications.
• CEP Local 1-S. Workers at SaskTel.
• CEP Local 7. Workers at Manitoba Tel.
• CEP Local 25. Workers at Bell Canada, Toronto.
• CEP Local 506. New Brunswick.
• CEP Local 2289, Nova Scotia. Formerly Atlantic Communication & Technical Workers Union
• e-Summit international for call centre managers.
• Global Sources Telecom Products. Delivering the latest price, supply and technology news, trends and analysis for volume buyers of voice, data and image communications products. Telecom Products is first to tell buyers about new products, new suppliers, and supply trends in Asia through product surveys, price, supply and technology specials, reports on over 60 new products each month, feature stories on purchasing strategies, industry news and exclusive interviews with industry leaders.
• ICCM call centre trade shows and conferences. Formerly CallVoice.
• Marcus Evans, formerly International Communications for Management Group, which organizes telecommunications conferences and training events.
• Telecom Information Resources compiled by Jeffrey MacKie-Mason of the University of Michigan.
• Jim Carroll, co-author of the Canadian Internet Handbook. The other Jim Carroll, a New York writer and performer.
• Telecommunications Workers Union, Alberta and British Columbia, Canada.
• Strategic Policy Research Inc., a U.S. consulting company
• ZDNet's White Paper Directory includes articles about the Internet, networking and telecommunications.
• CRTCH, an association of telecommunications managers at hospitals in Quebec.

Web-based Telephone Directories

• See Yellow Pages Group Co. (formerly Bell ActiMedia Inc., and before that, formerly Tele-Direct (Publications) Inc.) at http://www.yellowpages.ca (online directory listings) or http://www.ypg.ca (the corporate site). Directory publishers affiliated with telephone companies can often be reached through the Web site of their parent company.
• canada411 Free directory assistance for most Canadian locations. Run by Yellow Pages Group Co., the directory company affiliated with Bell Canada.
• Sympatico, an ISP affiliated with Bell Canada. MSN Sympatico, a portal for users of the Sympatico ISP and others.
• CanPages, a Canadian business listings database not affiliated with the phone companies.
• mytelus.com, a portal from Telus Corporation. Replaces the company's former alberta.com, myto.com and mybc.com portals. Its directory listings.
• Winnipeg Yellow Pages listings.
• mysask.com, a white and yellow pages directory service and portal for Saskatchewan. DirectWest, the telephone directory publishing company for Saskatchewan.
• SuperPages.ca, a Canadian directory database now owned by Yellow Pages Group.
• ZipLocal.com, a directory database.
• 411.ca, a directory database from Wideport.com.

U.S. directory services

Most of these have listings for all 50 states, but you may want to start with the service affiliated with the telephone company that serves the location you're interested in.

• bigyellow.com, the directory service of Bell Atlantic, has been merged into SuperPages.com
• YellowPages.com, formerly SMARTpages.com
• DexKnows.com, formerly Qwest Dex, from the company that publishes white and yellow pages directories under contract with Qwest.
• Yellowbook.com
• RealPages.com, a directory service from BellSouth.
• SuperPages.com, a directory service from Idearc, which acquired it from Verizon.
• ChicagolandYP.com, an Illinois directory service, ChicagoB2B (Chicago Business-to-Business) Yellow Pages and BestRedYP.com from R.H. Donnelly Corporation, which also publishes Sprint Yellow Pages and SBC Yellow Pages for Illinois and northwest Indiana.
• YellowPages.com, an easy-to-remember URL.
• WhitePages.com, another easy-to-remember URL.
• Yellow Pages Association, a trade association for online and printed directory publishers.
• Local Search Guide, a reference about companies that publish printed or online Yellow Pages.
• Local Matters, a provider of solutions for online directory publishers.

Directory services - other countries

• British Telecom's directory enquiries service for the UK white pages listings, from British Telecom.
• www.yell.com, a British directory service. See also www.yellowpages.co.uk.
• Golden Pages, Ireland.
• 118 net, Portugal.
• Páginas Amarelas Internet, Portugal.
• Páginas Amarelas de Moçambique. Mozambique telephone listings, in Portuguese and Engish.
• Das Telefonbuch, Germany.
• Das Oertliche, Germany.
• GelbeSeiten, Germany.
• Suchenode, Germany.
• Argentina.
• Teleinfo, Argentina.
• Yellow Pages, Australia.

Telecommunications carriers - Canada

• Aliant Inc., formed by the merger of the dominant local telephone carriers in Canada's Atlantic provinces. The old company names were:
• Island Tel of Prince Edward Island.
• Maritime Tel & Tel in Nova Scotia
• NB Tel, the New Brunwick telephone company
• NewTel Communications, formerly Newfoundland Telephone
• Allstream, formerly AT&T Canada Corp., and prior to that, Unitel Communications Co., and even earlier CNCP Telecommunications
• BCE Inc., also known as Bell Canada Enterprises. A holding company which owns Bell Canada and other telecommunications companies.
• BC Tel is now part of Telus.
• Bell Canada's home page.
• Bell Canada press releases.
• 101-55-66, formerly known as Buck-A-Call, a dial-around long distance service from AlternaCall Inc.
• DCI Telecom Inc. of Montreal and Toronto, a long distance carrier.
• Bell Technical Solutions Inc., an installation company in Canada formerly known as Entourage.
• Futureway Communications Inc. a CLEC based in Richmond Hill, Ontario.
• GT Group Telecom Inc., which has been acquired by 360networks
• Globalstar Canada, the Canadian arm of the of the Globalstar low-earth-orbit satellite telephony system.
• HIT Calls.
• Kantor. VoIP carrier in Toronto.
• London Telecom Network best known for flat-rate voice service, but also offers business and residential packages, Internet access and travel cards.
• MetroNet, a competitive local exchange carrier and supplier of local loops: now part of Allstream.
• MTS, the telephone company serving Manitoba, and the parent of Allstream.
• NEF Canada Inc., a long distance carrier offering monthly flat rate packages.
• NorthernTel, a telephone company in northeastern Ontario.
• Northwestel, a telephone company serving the Yukon, the Northwest Territories, Nunavut and northern British Columbia
• 151 Front St. West in Toronto, a carrier hotel in the building that was once the headquarters for CN Telecommunications.
• Ontario Telecommunications Association, formerly Ontario Telephone Association, the association of Ontario's independent telephone companies.
• Peer 1 Network Inc. ISP offers high performance bandwidth and server co-location facilities.
• SelectCom Ottawa-based long distance carrier. Also offers conference calling.
• Telus Québec, formerly Québec-Téléphone, Quebec's second-largest telephone company.
• Rogers Communications Inc. runs cable TV systems, owns Rogers Wireless (formerly Cantel) and Sprint Canada, and publishes Maclean's magazine and other periodicals.
• SaskTel, Saskatchewan's telephone company.
• Stentor, the consortium of major Canadian telephone companies. Web site has vanished following the departure of the Telus companies; see Bell Canada or other individual telephone companies.
• Télébec, another telephone company in Quebec.
• Telegrams Canada.
• Teleglobe, traditionally Canada's leading overseas telecommunications carrier.
• Telesat Canada, Canada's domestic satellite carrier
• Telus Communications of Alberta and British Columbia. Jobs at Telus. telus.net, the company's ISP operation. Telus is a unit of Telus Corporation. See also Telus Mobility
• Telecommunications Alliance. In 2006, businesses and consumers in several regions of Ontario and Quebec will have to adopt 10-digit dialing - the area code followed by the phone number - for all local communications. All the details on Telecommunications Alliance website.
• Times Telecom. A long distance carrier.
• Vartec Canada, a dial-around long distance carrier.
• Yak Communications, a dial-around long distance carrier (10-10-925 or 10-15-945 from Montreal and Toronto).

Telecommunications: Canadian government agencies

• Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission. My favourite regulatory tribunal.
• CRTC Telecom Decision 87-7, which upheld the limitations on liability for telegrams in Canada.
• Industry Canada.
• Industry Canada's spectrum management and telecommunications page.
• Telecommunications Standards Advisory Council of Canada

Telecommunications carriers - U.S.A

• ACN, a telecommunications carrier that sells through commission-paid independent sales representative.
• ALLTEL Corporation, a telecommunications carrier. Alltel.net, the company's Internet arm.
• AT&T Inc.
• AT&T press releases.
• V-E Day 1945 marked war's end and dawn of communications era (AT&T press release)
• American TeleSource International, Inc., a U.S. telecommunications carrier providing services to Latin America.
• Association for Local Telecommunications Services.
• Association of TeleServices International (ATSI), a trade association for telephone answering services.
• Bell Atlantic Corporation. See www.verizon.com
• BellSouth, one of the regional Bell companies. BellSouth Internet Service.
• Billing Concepts of San Antonio, a clearinghouse for telecommunications bills.
• CallingBargains.com. A reseller.
• CenturyTel (Century Telephone Enterprises, Inc.).
• DC TeleSystems, LLC. Inmate telephone services.
• DeltaThree, Internet telephony.
• Eatel, a telephone company in Louisiana.
• Ellipso. Ellipso is a global mobile personal communications by satellite (GMPCS) system. Utilizing unique, patented elliptical orbits and designs, Ellipso will provide voice, data, facsimile, paging and geolocation services to subscribers around the world... at prices that will be significantly lower than competing systems. Designed to extend and complement existing telephone and data networks, Ellipso service is expected to be ideal for countries seeking to expand or initiate telecommunications services without investing in cost-prohibitive traditional infrastructure.
• Excel, a carrier whose services are sold on a multi-level marketing basis.
• Global Tel*Link Corporation. Inmate telephone services.
• ICO is planning a family of satellite-based voice, wireless Internet and other packet-data services that it hopes will make personal mobile communications possible all over the world.
• j2 Global Communications fax-to-email services.
• LongDistanceWorld.com says it offers the lowest long distance rates.
• MCI, formerly WorldCom.
• MCI press releases.
• Motient mobile internet.
• North Star Communications Group, Inc. offers a broad range of communications services, including telecommunications engineering, construction management, project management, EF&I, consulting, and professional staffing.
• NotePage wireless messaging software.
• NuVox Communications. Competitive local exchange carrier based in Greenville, SC. Formerly Gabriel Communications Inc.
• One Wilshire. A carrier hotel.
• Orbcomm. Satellite company.
• Pacific Bell. Local exchange carrier serving California. See SBC Communications Inc.
• Pac-West Telecomm, Inc.
• PhoneShark.com Prepaid phonecards and wireless.
• SBC Communications Inc., a telecommunications carrier which now identifies itself only as SBC, and no longer uses the traditional names of its units formerly known as Southwestern Bell, Ameritech, Pacific Bell, Nevada Bell, and SNET. SBC press releases. Purchase telephones at SBC TeleStore.
• Sky Station International, Inc., a developer of stratospheric relays (blimps about 21 km above the earth's surface) for wireless broadband telecommunications.
• Sprint press releases
• Sprint financial press releases
• SMS/800, the 800 Service Management System, the central database for the management of toll-free numbers in North America.
• Startec, a long distance carrier.
• Teledesic is building what it calls an Internet-in-the-Sky.
• Telegram Gateway. Send a telegram to Russia or other countries via the Internet.
• Thuraya satellite telecommunications operating company.
• Time Warner Telecom, a provider of metro-area broadband optical networks and services to businesses..
• VarTec Telecom, Inc.
• Verizon, the company born from the merger between Bell Atlantic and GTE.
• Verizon press releases.
• Virtual Geosatellite, LLC (VIRGO). A new way to bring affordable internet and video services to the consumer, anywhere in the world. Using an innovative satellite system, VIRGO virtually reuses the frequency spectrum now assigned to the geostationary satellites, without interfering with their signals. For people without access to high data rate communications, VIRGO may be an inexpensive solution that will enable them to join the "information superhighway."
• Western Union., formerly owned by First Data Corporation.
• Western Unmion Alumni.
• Wireless Communications Association International. Trade association promoting fixed wireless broadband access.

Telecommunications: U.S. government agencies

• Federal Communications Commission
• National Telecommunications and Information Administration, an agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce
• Institute for Telecommunication Science in Boulder, Colorado, a unit of the NTIA (see above)
• Vermont Department of Public Service.
• Vermont Public Service Board, that state's telecommunications and energy regulator.
• U.S. Air Force Communications Agency supports air and space operations by bringing to the fight expertise in the communications and information arena.

Telecommunications carriers and government agencies - other countries

• AHCIET, Association of Spanish-language telecom research centres and carriers.
• Albacom, a telecommunications carrier in Italy.
• AMC, Albanian Mobile Communications.
• Autorité de Régulation des Télécommunications, France's regulatory agency.
• Azercell, a cellular operator in Azerbaijan.
• Azerbaijan: Terracom
• Bezeq, Israel's largest telecommunications carrier.
• Anatel, Brazil's telecommunications regulator.
• British Telecom.
• Cable & Wireless Falkland Islands.
• Faroese Telecom.
• Cegetel, a private telecommunications carrier in France.
• Carrier 1, Europe's long distance carrier.
• Inter-American Telecommunication Commission (CITEL).
• Cofetel, Mexico's telecom regulator.
• Deutsche Telekom, Germany.
• Econophone, Zürich, Switzerland. Offers local telephone service and ADSL.
• Eurotunnel Telecom.
• Federated States of Micronesia Telecommunications Corporation.
• France's government telecommunications office.
• Global Callsaver, UK.
• GTS Novera, a new telecommunications carrier in the Czech Republic. Formerly Aliatel.
• Japan's Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC) (formerly Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications).
• KCOM PLC, Hull, England.
• Kingston Communications, Hull, England.
• Maroc Telecom, Itissalat Al-Maghrib S.A., Morocco.
• Matav, a telecommunications carrier in Hungary.
• T-Mobile Austria, a mobile operator in Austria. Formerly max.mobil
• Miditel, a telecommunications carrier in Mexico.
• Mobile Telephone Networks (MTN), South Africa.
• Morocco's regulator, Agence Nationale de Réglementation des Télécommunications (ANRT).
• New Zealand Post's telegram service.
• News Optimus. UK firm offers custom telecom solutions.
• Ofcom, the United Kingdom's telecommunications regulatory agency. Formerly Oftel.
• The Personal Number Company, which provides 0700 phone numbers in the U.K.
• Rostelecom of Russia.
• Slovak Telecom, Slovenske Telekomunikacie, s.p.
• Swisscom, the dominant carrier in Switzerland.
• Telecom Global (UK) offers discounted rates on BT line rental and installations, carrier pre-select, low cost calls, 0870, 0871, 0800, 0845 numbers, least cost routing, ISDN 2 And ISDN 30 installations.
• Telfort, a telecommunications carrier in the Netherlands.
• PT. Telekomunikasi Indonesia.
• Telefonica of Spain.
• Tele Greenland.
• Telkom SA, South Africa's telephone company.
• Vodacom, a wireless carrier in South Africa.
• Vodafone, Germany. Formerly D2 Privat.
• Vodafone Albania, a wireless carrier in Albania.

Telecommunications Manufacturers and Related Companies

• Aastra consumer telephones. Acquired Nortel Network's consumer telephone business.
• Algo Communication Products of Burnaby, B.C., designs and manufactures telecom products/accessories such as specialty handsets, loud ringers, doorphones, visual alerters and call recording devices.
• Arch Communications Inc. of Oakville, Ontario. Buys and sells used business telephone equipment.
• Ausonia Technologies Inc. Cable assembly firm and distributor located in Montreal.
• BemroseBooth is a major manufacturer of pre-paid cards, web-payment cards, SIM card packs and leaflets, and provider of a variety of design and secure mail services for the telecommunications industry.
• www.bittech.co.uk Lee Dryburgh, signalling consultant, specializes in SS7/C7.
• Code Blue pedestal or wall-mounted emergency telephones. You can see some examples on the University of Toronto campus.
• Industries Jaro, a Canadian manufacturer of telephone booths.
• Itechcentre is or was a network simulation lab in Ottawa that provides a complete captive network used to test and develop new software and hardware. (unreachable May 10, 2005)
• King Technologies - Used Refurbished Telephone Equipment. Offers quality business telephone systems, telephone equipment, voice mail, refurbished phone, business telephone service, telecommunication equipment, voicemail system, phone repair, repair market, cheap phones, refurbed and voice terminal.
• Alcatel-Lucent.
• Online documentation for Lucent products and services.
• INIPPowered.com INtelligent Internet Protocol - taking interoperability solutions out of the lab and into the network.
• www.networktroubleshooting.com
• News Optimus Ltd. UK company provides innovative telephony, billing and customer care solutions in both the residential and business sectors. Formerly Broadsystem Ventures Ltd (BVL).
• Nortel Networks, formerly Northern Telecom.
• Digital Techniques Inc., enhancements for Nortel Networks, NEC, Siemens and other PBX systems.
• Quortech Solutions, manufacturer of Millenium brand pay phones, as well as public Internet terminals and prison phones.
• SR Telecom offers fixed wireless broadband access technology, network solutions for voice and Internet operators and service providers to connect end-users to networks using wireless transmissions.
• Telrad Networks.
• Telroy Inc. Winnipeg PBX and voicemail dealer buys and sells new and used telecommunications equipment.
• Tempest Telecom Solutions in Santa Barbara, California, is a provider of new and refurbished wireless, landline and networking infrastructure equipment.
• TruePulse supplies new and refurbished telecommunications equipment to service providers.

Press Release Distribution Services

These companies distribute press releases for a number of clients, including some telecommunications companies. In some cases, fresher information is available through these services than through the individual company's own Web site.

• PR Newswire, a U.S.-based press release distribution service.
• Business Wire, a U.S.-based press release distribution service.
• U.S. Newswire, a press release distribution service located in Washington, D.C. Lots of material from lobbying groups, including those dealing with telecommunications.
• Canada NewsWire, a Canadian press release distribution service. Today's CNW press releases.
• CCNMatthews (formerly Canadian Corporate News) press releases. Today's CCN press releases.
• Trans World News
  Distribution of press releases and news items to a network of newsrooms, journalists, and internet affiliates.
• e-News Services, formerly ISDN Wire, a Canadian press release distribution service, has been acquired by CCNMatthews.

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