Telco Year 2000 Forum "The Telco Year 2000 Forum, a nationwide group of major telecommunications companies, announced today it has contracted with Bellcore, a leading supplier of telecommunications software, consulting and testing, to coordinate and supervise Year 2000 network interoperability testing of components in the nation's telecommunications infrastructure. Year 2000 testing and evaluation is taking place at two levels. The first level, which is being conducted by the individual member companies, involves examination of individual network components, often called network elements.The second level, coordinated and supervised by Bellcore, involves interoperability issues in testing groupings of select network elements. Ultimately, the plan is to share test information to benefit the U.S. public telecommunications network.  "

• GTE Corporation -  GTE Year 2000 - Proposed Criteria for "Century Compliance"
• Bell Atlantic - Year 2000 - Network Services Status
• BellSouth - BellSouth Year 2000 Information Center - "BellSouth will not be responsible or liable for Year 2000 compliance of customer-owned equipment or customer-owned peripheral hardware that may be linked to equipment BellSouth owns."
• U S WEST - Year 2000 Initiative
• Ameritech - Year 2000 Information -
• Cincinnati Bell
• SBC Communications Inc (Southwestern Bell, Pacific Bell, Nevada Bell and Cellular One) SBC's Year 2000 Page

Bellcore External Web Site Home Page - Year 2000 "For the Year 2000, because most platforms and applications have only used a 2-digit year field, virtually all Network Elements are at risk. Typical Network Elements include (but are by no means limited to): Local digital switches, Toll digital switches, Frame relay switches, ATM switches, Digital cross connect systems, Digital loop carrier systems, Add-drop multiplexers, Service switching points, Signaling transfer points, Routers, Service control points, Intelligent peripherals. This risk becomes even more apparent in light of Bellcore experiments and a Gartner Group survey of customer premises equipment vendors revealing that almost all are having to address Year 2000 problems."

(A 1998 Glossary of Telecommunications Terms from Federal Communications Commission)

Telecoms Virtual Library Telecoms Virtual Library: Associations

• Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) (Several articles via search, no separate web site for Y2K)
• Listing of Members with Web Page Links
• The Telecommunications Managers Association
• Millennium Issues
• The Millennium Problem and Telecommunications Equipment

• IEEE Communications Society
• Communications Managers Association

• Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions
• ATIS Member Companies
• ATIS Committees
• Telecommunications Industry Forum (TCIF)
• Network Reliability Steering Committee (NRSC)
• Carrier Liaison Committee (CLC)
• Committee T1-Telecommunications (T1)
• United States Telephone Association
• Full Members
• Associate Members
• TelecomPolicy New Web site - America's Local Telephone Companies We number more than 1,200 nationwide. Together, we built the most reliable and technologically-advanced telecommunications network in the world so that America's businesses and consumers can have the best phone service possible.

Nortel: Index to Other Telecom WWW Sites

Telecom Publishers :

• Network Week
• Dataquest
• Communications Week Communications Week International
• Interactive Age Interactive Week
• Information Week

Analysys Publications: Online - Publications Insight "Telecoms Finance Databook (2nd edition) Ranking of Telecoms Companies" Telecoms Operators in the Developed World

AmeriTech, Bell Atlantic, Bellsouth, NYNEX, Pacific Telesis, Southwestern Bell, US West, GTE/Contel, Bell Companies,

Lucent, Nortel, Siemens, Cisco, 3Com, Newbridge, Bay Networks, Motorola, IBM

GTE, Sprint, Bell Atlantic, HP, Ascent Logic, AT&T, MCI

Federal Communications Commission : Infrastructure The Long Distance The Local Telephone Telecommunications

International Telecommunication Union

Yahoo! - Business and Economy:Companies:Telecommunications

National Telecommunications and Information Administration Home Page