Useful Links

Standards Organizations

• ITU (International Telecommunication Union)
• ETSI The European Telecommunications Standards Institute
• Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (telecoms industry standards organisation comprising over 200 North American companies)
• ANSI American National Standards Institute
• Communications Standards Review (publishes journals reporting on formal telecommunications standards in the ITU, ETSI and TIA)
• Computer and Communication (searchable directory of information on standards)
• EWOS European forum of users, manufacturers and vendors, working to achieve openness in Information and Communications Technology
• ICT Standards Board (Information and Communications Technology Standards Board)
• IETF Internet Engineering Task Force
• ISO The International Standards Organisation

Broadband Telecom

• DSL Forum
• ADSL, SDSL, HDSL, and VDSL Information (The TeleChoice Site on xDSL technologies)
• ATM Forum
• CERN's High Speed Interconnect home page
• Fiber Optics Online (news, analysis, product information and virtual market place)
• Frame Relay Forum
• Lightwave Magazine (Fiber-optic communications technology and applications)

Mobile Wireless

• IMT-2000, International Telecommunication Union
• 3GPP - Third Generation Partnership Project
• 3GPP2 - Third Generation Partnership Project 2
• CDMA Development Group
• Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) Forum
• Wireless World Research Forum (WWRF)
• AMTA: American Mobile Telecommunications Association
• Japan's Association of Radio Industries and Businesses (ARIB)
• China Wireless Telecommunication Standard Group (CWTS)
• CTIA (Cellular Telecommunications Information Association) (WOW-COM: World of Wireless information page)
• ERO (European Radiocommunications Office: set up by the Conference of European Postal and Telecommunications Administrations to contribute to radiocommunications policy)
• FCC Wireless Telecoms Bureau (contains wealth of information on US PCS licensees)
• Globalstar (satellite-based wireless communications)
• GSM Association
• GSM: Digital Cellular Phone Systems (GSM information site maintained by Henrik Kaare Poulsen)
• GSM World (information on networks, services, tariffs, roaming and coverage)