Cellular Service in the U.K.

Mobile Phone Deals: Cheap Line Rental Contract Mobile Phone Deals of 3, Orange and T Mobile Phone with Free 3g Mobile Phones: http://www.mobilerainbow.co.uk

Orange Mobile Phone Deals: Pay Monthly Contract Mobile Phone Deals with Low Line Rental and Free Mobile Phone. http://www.orangemobileshop.co.uk

Mobile Handsets

"Kyocera Wireless is a major global manufacturer of wireless communication solutions, devices and accessories. We have information your audience can use to make an informed decision regarding the purchase of their next cell phone or accessory. To learn more about our company, visit us at: http://www.kyocera-wireless.com."

SIM Card Providers

"Buying a SIM card from Oneroam for the country you are visiting, before you leave, you can cut your mobile phone bill by as much as 80%." http://www.oneroam.co.uk/

Information & Service Providers

FierceVoIp: VoIP Business and Technology Report, is an easy to read twice-weekly email service that brings must read VoIP news to senior executives in the Voice over IP and IP telephony industry." http://www.fiercevoip.com

A.I. Answering Service & Call Center Hub: http://www.successfuloffice.com "Friendly staff of 5-7 to help you succeed. Featuring sales help, virtual office functions, mail services, order entry and more!"

New England Cellular Sites: Documented and Revealed http://www.necellularsites.net "This web site reveals cellular site locations with coverage maps and wireless provider information as well as information on cell site leasing and Field Mode testing."

"The Wireless Dispatch: http://www.wireless-depot.com/ provides you with the latest news in wireless technology. We'll keep you up-to-date on the latest developments in wireless internet, as well as wireless equipment and accessories."

The Telecom Digest http://massis.lcs.mit. edu/telecom-archives Indispensable telecom resource.

Good site to bookmark when you're trying to figure out those unknown numbers on your monthly telephone bill:

http://www.areacodedownload.com

The Long Distance Digest (by VanTek Communications) http://www.thedigest.com/ Continuing publication about the long distance industry. News and consumer information. The place for LD information on the web.

http://www.pierzgroup.com/

Telecom Classifieds. net http://www.telecomclassifieds.net/ Help this new startup grow! Place your telecom related classified here. For free. New and old equipment, antique items, telecom services. The more listings that are placed, the better this resource will be.

The ICB Toll Free News http://www.icbtollfree.com Covers theToll Free Industry, namely, marketing, industry, and regulatory news and information. If you are in the business you should check it out.

Cell Phone Numbers

"The largest online directory of cell phone numbers - business and personal. All countries, all networks and (best of all) all free. That's free to search and to opt in to a listing. Available on WAP too."

http://www.MobilephoneNumber.com

Telephone History

The Telephone Collectors International newsletter. http://www.singingwires.org/ singwire/singwire.htm

Old Telephone Books:

Wonderful site. Good information. Many books for sale:

http://www.statoids.com/phonebooks/pbmain.html

Global Crossing http://www.cwhistory.com/ Great telephone company history site. Nice emphasis on early communications. Roseville Telephone Company's telephone museum

http://www.rosevilletelephone.com/museum/ index.html Link dead once again. Excellent company and people. The museum is located in Roseville, California and open by apppointment. Worth a drive and a day.

http://www.lucent.com John E. Donovan, Editor, Bell Labs Technology, arranged permission for to put some important cellular articles on line. Thanks to everyone at Lucent.

Magazine ArkansasTelephone Company (Magtel or Magazine Telephone Company)  http://www.cei.net/~magtel/index.html >Nice independent telco site. Includes history.

David Massey's Bell System Memorial http://www.BellSystemMemorial.com

The Bell System lives on. Just without the high bills and waiting around all day for a tech. Excellent site.

Ron Christianson's telephone site: "The Cyber Telephone Museum http://www.museumphones.com Fascinating telephone site, called by Ron the "Cyber Telephone Museum." Good information, trivia, and telephone pictures. Excellent.

Michael Spalter's Strowger's site http://www.seg.co.uk/telecomm/index.htm Everything you've wanted to know about step-by-step switching.

Chuck Eby's Antique Telephone History Web Site http://atcaonline.com/phone/ Tons of great links and original material on telephone history.

Frank Harrell's site http://nps-vip.net/ Cowboy Frank is a former WECO employee who maintains a well done personal site which includes much helpful information on wire color codes.

How Telephones Work by Julian Macassey, N6ARE. The web's essential if sometimes difficult 'how telephones work article. I've put it up at my site since I was tired of the file dying.

Tones and Things

U.K. ringtone site. http://www.tones-n-things.com/morelinks.html pHat tonz for your phonz. Sorry about that.

Ringtone Party.com http://www.ringtoneparty.com/ Ringtone Party specialises in U.K ringtones, new ringtones and the latest U.K. ringtone charts.

Medical

http://www.mcw.edu/gcrc/cop/cell- phone-health-FAQ/toc.html Authoritative discussion by John Moulder of the Medical College of Wisconsin (This link and below submitted by Mark van der Hoek internal link) Are Mobile Phones Safe? http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/ publicfeature/aug00/prad.html

Cellular

Steve Punter. Good cellular resources. http://www.arcx.com/sites/

Cellphones.ca  http://www.cellphones.ca/ Canadian cell phones and plans. Nice site.

3G

Henrik Kaare Poulsenon on GSM and 3G. Friendly site on GSM and 3G. The look is a little rough but the information is there. http://3g.cellular.phonecall.net/

http://www.the3Gportal.com/ Links to information on all things 3G.

Central Office -- Inside Plant

Central office and cable vault article http://www.bellsystemmemorial.com /miscellaneous-don2.html Don Hurter of Sirius.com writes a great four part article describing a Pacific Bell central office as well as its cable vault. He goes into great detail and writes clearly.

Outside Plant

Access Utilities International Inc.

"Serving the outside plant market"

Bob Whitcomb, Operations Manager

3212 West Capitol Avenue, CA 95691

(916)761-5912

rcwhitcomb@earthlink.net

Marconi

Used to be RELTEC, now bought out. Great on-line catalog of outside plant equipment. You can now figure out what all those mysterious cabinets and fixtures are. Link now dead, these people have changed their links three times and never told me. http://www.marconi.com/html/ solutions/outsideplant.htm

Hacker sites

Sotmesc http://www.sotmesc.org/gcms A diverse hacking community." I'll say :-;

http://zbone.com/justin/ Good intro, now redirects to Agennt Steal's official site. Why would you want to visit a site that a guy named Agent Steal maintains? You just don't get it . . .

DefCon http://defcon.org/ "Unfortunately, no one can explain what the DefCon is . . . " Everyone needs to go to DefCon once in their life. I've been twice. Go a day early and leave a day late. Not telephone focused. Go anyway. Have fun!

All things Mitnick:

http://www.albany.net/~dsissman/mitnick.html Go Kevin! The first political prisoner of the information age, a man no federal agents, washed up technology writers, or supposed security experts, can hope to match in brilliance, knowledge or skill.

John Smith's site

http://www.internettrash.com/users/bft/

I don't know what's going on with this site right now. "John Smith", a long time hacker, presents a hacker related site filled with telephone related images, useful text files, and good links. A really good scanning file covering toll free numbers.

Services

BWCS: Telecommunications Consulting and Communications  http://www.bwcs.com/index.html Consultancy and news service for the 3G market. They do research management, business planning, sales training, and so on. Good information by country on spectrum auctions. "Free daily 3G news, analysis and market profiles."  

Refund Systems http://www.refundsystems.com/ Care of Dan Wachs. Telecom Cost Control Refund Systems is a telecom expense management consultancy. "Cut and contain your telecom costs. Lower your telecom expense 5% to 40% or more with their Retroactive Telecom Audit."

Computer Consulting

http://www.dis.org These people can handle any computer problem you have. Peter Shipley, for example, specializes in "security, TCP/IP Network design and implementation, HTML/CGI web programing, and X11 windowing system programming." And that's just one of their team. I know this sounds like an ad but I know several of these people and they are honest and talented.

Security consultant and general computer wonk. :-) http://www.gilliss.com/greg/ Network architecture design and security. Gregory Gillis has been at this work for a very long time

The Radio Spectrum

The Joint Spectrum Center http://www.jsc.mil/ While the FCC manages United States commercial and amateur radio spectrum, the United States military Joint Spectrum Center manages the armed forces' share of the electromagnetic pie. 

Suppliers

http://www.phonecoinc.com/ If you can't find something ineresting to buy here then you don't like old telephones. Great site, even just to browse. Good gift possibilities.

http://www.rfvision.com  Technical Distribution Specialists in RF Small-Signal components, RF Power Devices, RF Passives, RF interconnects, and Fiber Optic Products." Plus a whole lot more. They seem very enthusiastic. privateline.com approves of enthusiasm.

Miscellaneous

Mt. Tanya http://www.privateline.com /tanya/tanya.htmThere's no stoppin' when Tanya's rockin'! Sacramento's best D.J.

The University of California Cooperative Extension Ornamental Horticulture Research and Information Center (Whew!)  http://ohric.ucdavis.edu/ Managed by Linda Dodge, AKA Little Sheeba, AKA La Linda, OHRIC "Provides a focal point for research-based information and important issues facing the horticulture industry in California." In other words, stuff about plants.

Gardening: http://www.itsgardening.com A link or directory site to all things gardening. No original content.

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