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Agencies
Associations - Canada
Directories
Education - Toronto
Magazines
Agencies
Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC)
http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/welcome.htm
"An independent agency responsible for regulating Canada's broadcasting and telecommunications systems."
The European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations (CEPT)
http://www.cept.org/
Serves as a forum for sovereign and regulatory issues in the field of telecommunications.
European Telecommunications Office
http://www.eto.dk/
"The European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations and the European Committee for Telecommunications Regulatory Affairs established the European telecommunications Office (ETO) in 1994 in order to provide expertise for ECTRA members and to contribute to the European Union's telecommunications policy on licensing and numbering."
Telecommunities Canada Inc.
http://www.tc.ca/
Telecommunications Canada ensures that "all Canadians are able to participate in community-based communications and electronic information services by promoting and supporting local community network initiatives."
Associations - Canada
Call Centre Management Association Canada (CCMA)
http://www.ccmacanada.com/
"A non-profit organization run by industry professionals, who all have an abiding interest in Call Centres. Committee members will have coordinating roles covering Finance, Membership, Education, External Relations, Legislation, Press Relations and Marketing."
Canadian Telecommunications Consultants Association (CTCA)
http://www.ctca.ca/
"Canada's only professional association of independent telecommunications consultants. The CTCA stands for competent, capable, knowledgeable, experienced and ethical telecommunications consulting."
Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association (CWTA)
http://www.cwta.ca/
"Members include mobile telephone service providers, paging companies, mobile radio, mobile satellite carriers and fixed wireless service providers from coast to coast. In addition, CWTA represents a broad cross-section of manufacturers and equipment suppliers to the industry."
Directories
Telecom Click
http://www.telecomclick.com/index.asp
"Provides one-stop access to the leading suppliers of telecommunications products and services, the latest industry news, tradeshows and live events, the full-text of hundreds of the best trade publications in the industry, including Telephony, Cable World and Wireless Review, and much more."
Education - Toronto
Centennial College - Bell Centre for Creative Communications
http://www.bccc.com/
"A technology resource containing the world's largest single educational installation of Silicon Graphics workstations and one of Canada's most advanced ATM fibre optic network architectures."
Nortel Institute for Telecommunications
http://www.nit.utoronto.ca/
"Building on an outstanding record of achievement in collaborative research and education the University of Toronto and Nortel Networks created the Nortel Institute for Telecommunications to mount a substantial, comprehensive and focused effort to drive the evolution of information technologies, while at the same time supporting the growth of the Canadian industry."
Magazines
Communications International Online
http://www.totaltele.com
Online telecommunications magazine with an international focus.
Global Telephony
http://www.telecomclick.com/magazine.asp?magazineid=2
Guides telecom leaders from Asia to Europe to Latin America to the Middle East in their quest to compete in the worldwide market.
Fibre Systems
http://fibre-systems.com/
"A global publishing portfolio dedicated to the international optical communications industry."
Telecommunications Reports
http://www.tr.com/
"Through newsletters, news wires, online services, and special reports, TRI is the leading purveyor of intelligence on domestic and international telecom business and policy strategies, local exchange competition, service resale, billing, wireless/PCS, technology deployment, communications industry finance, interactive and multimedia services, and electronic commerce." Fee-based.
Telephony
http://www.telecomclick.com/magazine.asp?magazineid=7
Articles mainly on the U.S. telecommunications industry.
Total Telecom
http://www.totaltele.com/default.asp?test=1&pub=tt
Includes a telecom glossary, links to white papers and links to other telecom sites | 
