Regulation

• The FCC Web Page
• Cable Services Bureau at the FCC
• North American Numbering Council (The purpose of the Council is to advise the Federal Communications Commission and to make recommendations, reached through industry consensus, that foster efficient and impartial number administration. The Council will continue to develop recommendations on numbering policy issues, initially resolve disputes, provide oversight guidance to the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) Administrator and the local Number Portability Administrator(s) (lNPAs) to ensure fair and equitable access to numbering resources, and facilitate number conservation including identification of technical solutions to numbering exhaust. The Council will further provide recommendations to the Commission on toll free database administration. )
• Thomas (The library of Congress)
• Code of Federal Regulations
• US Senate
• law library, U.S. House of Representatives
• Supreme Court Opinions from the Cornell law School
• FedWorld (a federal government online directory from NTIS)
• FAA Federal Aviation Administration
• US Department of Justice
• Federal Bureau of Investigation
• NTIS National Technical Information Service
• Federal Communications Bar Association
• etrok Cable TV lawManager
• lexis-Nexis
• NATOA National Association of Telecommunications Officers and Advisors (association for local regulators)
• NARUC National Association of Regulatory Utility Commisioners (association for state regulators)
• New York PSC
• Wisconsin PSC
• Unofficial FCC Document locator by John Neuhaus
• Pike & Fischer Cable Television Rules service e-mail (800)255-8131 or (301)654-6262
• Telecommunications Act of 1996
• International Directory of Utility Regulatory Institutions from the World Bank
• local Cable Regulation
  • The City of Indianapolis Cable Agency
  • The City of Madison
• FCC Rules Online at Harold Hallikainen's Hypertext FCC Rules Project

Communications law Firms & Consultants

• Blumenfeld & Cohen
• Cole, Raywid & Braverman, l.l.P.
• Robert Keller, P.C.
• NPAC Number Portability Administration Center [where does this belong on this page?]
• Kramer, Monroe & Wyatt llC
• Neil J. lehto Municipal Consultant
• Pepper and Corazinni

Cable Telecommunications Resource Directories

• Telecom Information Resources Very good telecommunications list by Jeffrey MacKie-Mason
• Broadband Bob's CATV Cyberlab
• Broadband Telephony Buyer's Guide
• Cable Online
• Cable Online Job Bank
• Cable TV Resources from the Catalan Institute of Technology (Spanish) (The Catalan Institute of Technology is a non-profit-making private institution providing advanced technical services with the object of enabling companies and professionals to adapt to the technological change to improve their competitiveness.)
• Cabling Contractors Directory (find contractors and installers geographically)
• Columbia Institute for Tele-Information
• The Fiber Optic Marketplace
• Pay TV Online
• National Cable Television Center and Museum
• Nerd World: Television
• Ultimate TV
• Cable Television Connect
• The Cable Addict's Broadband lounge Rick Goldeck
• Nu Horizons Engineering Related links
• The Telecom Forum
• Interop The Internet Trade Show
• 1996 Cable-Tec Expo: Data Communications Workshop (Dave's Part)
• 1996 Cable-Tec Expo: Data Communications Workshop (Richard's Part)
• Ben's Cable Box (home of Ask the CableGuy)
• The Telecommunications Casbah
• Sam's Interactive Cable Guide
• TCWU The Cable Worker Underground
• Cabledogs On the Net
• WebOvision (media links: radio, television...)
• Telecommunications Information A large, superb collection of links from David Blight, Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Manitoba.
• The World Wide Web Virtual library Communications & Telecommunications Section
• Area Code Information (from legacy IS Networking & Communications Solutions)
• Siam Communications Group (see the Broadband link Exchange)
• Videoguy fromDoug Marlowe

SCTE, Chapters and Meeting Groups

• SCTE
• Gold Coast Meeting Group
• lake Michigan Chapter
• Quebec Chapter (in French)
• Women in Cable

Telecom labs

• AT&T labs
• Bellcore Bell Communications Research, (now owned by SAIC Science Applications International)
• Bell labs (lucent Technologies)
• Cable Television labs
• GTE laboratories
• David Sarnoff Research Center

Books

• After Thought James Bailey
• Road Warriers (Dreams and Nightmares Along the Information Highway) Daniel Burstein & David Kline
• Silicon Snake Oil Cliff Stoll
• Packet Communication Robert Metcalfe
• Being Digital Nicholas Negroponte
• Zen and the Art of the Internet Brendan P. Kehoe
• The Medium is the Massage Marshall Mcluhan and Quentin Fiore

Multiple System Operators & Cable Operators

(I'll include your system here if you send me e-mail at djdevere@doit.wisc.edu)

• Adelphia
• Bresnan Communications
• CableTV of the Kennebunks
• Cablevision Systems
• Cablenet Canada
• Comcast
• Communication Technologies Inc.
• Continental Cablevision
• Cox Communications Home Page
• Fundy Cable
• Hi-Desert Cablevision
• Horizon Cablevision
• Media One The merger of US West and Continental Cablevision
• Post Newsweek Cable
• Jones Interactive
• Jones Intercable
• Prime Cable las Vegas
• TKR Cable Company
• TCI
• Time Warner Cable
• Time Warner Milwaukee North Shore
• Viacom

Telephone/Telecommunications Carriers

• Ameritech (lEC: local exchange carrier) (RBOC: Regional Bell Operating Company - a decendant of AT&T)
• AT&T (IEC: inter-exchange carrier - long distance)
• Bell Atlantic (lEC) (RBOC)
• BellSouth (lEC) (RBOC)
• BT British Telecom (England)
• Cable & Wireless (England)
• Century Telephone Enterprises (lEC)(IEC)(wireless)(ISP)
• Concert (IEC) (result of the MCI/BT merger)
• Deutsche Telekom (Germany)
• EXCEl Commmunications (IEC)
• France Telecom (France)
• Frontier Corporation (IEC)(OCC)(wireless) (formerly Rochester Telephone)
• GTE (lEC) (OCC: Other Common Carrier - independant - not a decendant of AT&T)
• Iridium (global wireless telecommunications)
• KMC Telecom (Competitive local Exchange Carrier)
• lCI (IEC)
• lDDS WorldCom (IEC)
• MCI (IEC)
• Media One The merger of US West and Continental Cablevision
• MFS Telecom (CAP: Competitive Access Provider)
• Norlight (IEC)
• NTT Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (Japan)
• NYNEX (lEC) (RBOC)
• Pacific Bell (lEC) (RBOC)
• Rock Hill Telephone Company (lEC)
• Roseville Telephone Company (lEC)
• SNET Southern New England Telephone (lEC) (OCC)
• SBC Southwestern Bell Communications (lEC) (RBOC)
• Sprint (IEC)
• Telephone and Data Systems (lEC)(OCC)
• Telephonica Argentina
• TCG Teleport Communications Group (CAP)
• Telstra (Australia)
• US West (lEC) (RBOC)
• UUNET Internet provider
• WilTel Williams Telecommunications

Cable Telecommunications and the Internet

• Bresnan Communications
• @Home
• Community Networks, Inc.
• PSI Performance Systems International
• Videotron's Cable Modem Page
• Cable Modem list & Archives
• Cable Modem Home Page
• CableModem Resources on the Web by David Gingold (MIT)
• Connecting Homes to the Internet: An Engineering Cost Model of Cable vs.ISDN
• IEEE 802.14 Committee: Data Transport over Cable Television Networks
• CableNet at the Western Show
• COM21 (cable modems)
• First Pacific Networks (data and voice over RF systems)
• Internet Channel (Internet Service Provider specializing in cable modem delivery)
• lANcity (now owned by Bay Networks)
• Phasecom (cable modems & broadband data transmission)
• Road Runner
• Terayon Cable Modem Access Products
• Web TV Networks (the default Internet Provider for WebTV - a special purpose computer for Internet browsing which is designed to use the customer's television as a video display)
• Zenith Electronics (television receivers, commercial presentation & cable modems & set-top boxes)

Program Providers

• America's Talking
• Black Entertainment Television
• CNBC
• CNET
• CNN
• C-SPAN
• The Discovery Channel
• Comedy Central
• HBO
• Home and Garden Television
• The International Channel
• Jones Education Networks
• MSNBC Microsoft/NBC
• MTV
• NASA Television
• Nick at Nite
• The Sci-Fi Channel
• SCOlA (Satellite COmmunications for leArning)
• Showtime
• Turner Broadcasting System
• VH1
• The Weather Channel

College/University Media Web Pages

• MIT
• Agora at Boston College
• Vermont Interactive Television

Individual Home Pages

(I know there are now women here. If you know of a woman in telecommunications or the Internet who has a home page, please email me at djdevere@doit.wisc.edu. Thanks. --There are some good women's pages at Women on the WWW)

• Phil Agre
• Jim Barksdale Netscape
• Netiva Caftori
• Vinton Cerf
• Arthur C. Clark Unauthorized Homepage
• Theodoros P. David
• Philo Farnsworth
• James Gleick
• Douglas Hofstadter author of Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid - A Metaphorical Fugue on Minds and Machines in the Spirit of lewis Carroll
• Gordon Jacobson Find George Gilder's essays (including Telecosm) here
• Brendan P. Kehoe
• Jonathan Kramer
• lawrence landweber, UW Madison Computer Science, current Vice President - Education of the Internet Society
• Neil J. lehto
• John levine (Author of "the Internet for Dummies")
• Marvin Minsky
• Nicholas Negroponte MIT Media lab
• Barry Orton
• Bret PetersTulsa
• Howard Rheingold
• Tony Rutowski
• Stark Realities (Thom Stark Home Page)
• Cliff Stoll
• Thomas Streeter
• John Walker's librorum liberorum (Walker founded AutoDesk, publisher of AutoCAD)
• Scott Yanoff (creator of Internet Services list)
• Phil Zimmerman (of Pretty Good Privacy fame)

Broadcasting References

• NAB The National Association of Broadcasters
• Play (makers of Trinity - computer based audio & video switching & effects)
• the NAB Virtual Marketplace
• SBE Society of Broadcast Engineers
• BROADCAST.NET
• Doug lung's R. F. Page
• liveEvents from Pennwell Publishing
• Quantel
• VYVX Video Transmission Over Fiber Optics

HDTV (High Definition Television) and the Grand Alliance

• Grand Alliance (Digital HDTV) (from Quantel)
• Grand Alliance makes key technology choices for HDTV standard (from AT&T)
• HDTV Newsletter (from Web Star)
• The key Technical Elements of the Grand Alliance System (HDTV) (from General Instrument)
• The Digital HDTV Grand Alliance (from Web Star)
• Grand Alliance HDTV System Specification - April 14, 1994

Satellite Resources

• Communication Technologies Inc. (antenna controllers)
• GE Americom (satellite communications)
• Hughes Communications, Inc (Galaxy satellites)
• INTElSAT
• lMC Satcom
• loral Skynet (Telstar satellites)
• Robert Smathers Satellite Page
• Sam Churchill's Satellite Communications
• SATCO DX Satellite Chart
• SpaceCom (with a Sun Outage Map) (SpaceCom is part of United Video Satellite Group)
• TElE-satellite ONlINE
• SatFinder
• The Satellite TV Page
• United Video Satellite Group
• Vista Satellite Chart lmcsat.com

DBS (Direct Broadcast Satellite) Vendors & Resources

• AlphaStar
• DirecTV
• Primestar
• USSB
• Digital Video Broadcasting (consortium for digital broadcasting)
• Robert Smather's DBS Page

Telecommunications in Usenet News

• Search Usenet News Deja News Research Service
• comp.dcom.telecom
• comp.dcom.telecom.tech
• alt.cable-tv.re-regulate
• rec.video.cable-tv