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Welcome to a WikiProject with the aim to better organize information in articles related to Telecommunications, and to support colaborative work among wikipedia authors with interest in this field. The project should cover the WikiPedia categories Communication engineering and Telecommunications with subcategories.

If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list there. We also suggest that you add your name to the participants section, either as part time participant or full-time member. Members are encouraged to add the {{WikiProject:Tel}} template to their user pages.

For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProject and Wikipedia:WikiProject/Best practices.

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[edit] Participants

[edit] Part-time participants

If you would consider yourself a participant from time to time, but not a "full time member", please sign with four tildes (~~~~) below. Also add something about your interests in the telecommunications field. Don't forget to add the {{WikiProject:Tel}} template to your userpage.

  • Earthandfire 02:26, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
  • ALM 03:02, 21 November 2006 (UTC) -- Working on Islamic articles is my first priority here but I will also like to contribute in my area of research i.e. Telecommunications
  • Hgmyung --Hgmyung 22:11, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Mattew 08:35, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
  • gea-141020 December 10 2006 (UTC) -- Wrote much of the DWDM and SONET Wiki entries. Worked for Bellcore and edited Telcordia's Notes on SONET and Notes on DWDM.
  • Edokter 16:33, 13 December 2006 (UTC) -- Interested in (legacy) telephone networks and technology.
  • KYJustin 00:05, 19 December 2006 (UTC) -- Strong interest in, and knowledge of cellular telephony technologies. Also amateur radio license holder.
  • Virtugon 16:13, 31 December 2006 (UTC) -- Interested in all kinds of telecommunication technologies but specialised in VoIP.
  • Alinja 13:19, 3 January 2007 (UTC) -- Digital RF communications and theory.
  • Madhav 22:00, 12 January 2007 -- Interested in Mobile Communication
  • BrandonG 06:32, 22 January 2007 (UTC) - Interested in cellular/mobile technologies
  • Graeme Bartlett 08:35, 28 January 2007 (UTC) - interested in digital radio, modems
  • Kgfleischmann 09:14, 28 January 2007 (UTC) - interested in Telecommunication and Internet Telephony
  • Donovan Ravenhull 20:56, 1 February 2007 (UTC) - I'm a central office tech (and former installer and splicer) who just wants to make sure good knowledge gets out to the people.
  • Bzbz 13:09, 2 March 2007 (UTC) - working in the telecom field, primarily dealing with VoIP
  • decent (Shakeel Ahmad Alvi) 07:56, 27 March 2007 - I am interested in Radio and VSAT Communication.
  • Photo44 00:16, 28 March 2007 (UTC) (G4WAU - rik). Taught Amateur Radio Examination Course for UK CGLI 1975 - 1987, CW 1978 - 1987, and been involved with Data Communications since 1980's
  • Tobias Ahl 02:26, 13 April 2007 (UTC) - working in the field and with IEC/CENELEC standardisation
  • --Boscobiscotti 05:04, 20 May 2007 (UTC) Computer Networking, Lans, Ethernet, 802.11 WLans, Layer-2, Layer-3
  • truCido 15:27, 20 June 2007 (UTC) - Work in Mobile Telecommunications
  • HappyCamper 16:40, 27 June 2007 (UTC) - general interest in signal processing
  • Tilex 22:26, 28 June 2007 (UTC) - Telecommunications engineer, specialised in cellular/mobile techonologies for Bell Canada
  • Mathiastck 12:39, 19 July 2007 (UTC) Work in mobile content development. Trying to maintain Category:Mobile
  • Tuxa 23:27, 14 August 2007 (UTC) create telecommunication portal .
  • DWaterson 23:23, 18 August 2007 (UTC) - ex-Orange UK build controller, now a town planner in the telecommunications industry. Main area of knowledge is in network rollout and development, rather than the technical side.
  • NoGringo 17:05, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
  • Figarema 23:54, 28 August 2007 (UTC) - Radio Amateur since 1991, Telecoms University Education, Seven years mobile radio expert experience, currently working for a multinational mobile operator.
  • henawy 20:39, 28 September 2007 (UTC) Interested in Satellite Communication, and Antenna Design and Modeling.
  • MarkPos 19:50, 29 September 2007 (UTC) Working in satellite and radiocommunications, especially radio regulation, spectrum management, frequency coordination, interference and licencing.
  • Toddyboy711 15:35, 28 October 2007 (UTC) - Formerly a Fiber Network Technician and currently a telecommunications instructor for fiber optic networking, FTTP, and related services.
  • Mblumber (talk) 02:43, 15 January 2008 (UTC) -- I work in the industry and plan on adding to everything CDMA related.
  • Masters0fdisasters (talk) 17:30, 18 January 2008 (UTC) -- RBOC veteran, IP Telephony, SIP, MGCP, Cisco, VOIP
  • papageno (talk) 02:53, 24 January 2008 (UTC) -- Mobile communications including radio communications, mobile communications and health
  • Cgrim29588 (talk) 07:05, 7 April 2008 (UTC) -- Strong interest it cellular/mobile techonologies
  • Towel401 (talk) 12:06, 20 April 2008 (UTC) -- Interested in satellite phones
  • HatlessAtless (talk) 17:58, 24 April 2008 (UTC)-- Interest and research into wireless systems, as well as aircraft and spacecraft systems. Currently employed in the aerospace industry.
  • User:Bushsf (talk) 16:05, 28 april 2008 (UTC)
  • Beardybloke (talk) 17:22, 9 June 2008 (UTC) Been involved in protocol implementation, testing, monitoring across a range of technologies. As a result not really an expert in any one but dabbled in most. (IN,GSM,GPRS,UMTS,LTE,SS7(IN/ISUP/TUP),ISDN,V5)

[edit] Full-time members

If you are a "full time member", please sign with four tildes ~~~~ to add your name to the following list. Also add something about your interests in the telecommunications field. Don't forget to add the {{WikiProject:Tel}} template to your userpage.

  • GoLLoMboje (talk) 18:46, 30 December 2007 (UTC) Tanzanian Telecom Engineer, web designer, computer programmer and an Internet entrepreneur.Currently doing B.Tech Electronics And Communication Engg. in Kerala University,India. Interested in Mobile and WiReLess Technology.
  • aido2002 00:53, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Mange01 23:37, 20 November 2006 (UTC) -- Working on radio resource management, computer networks, OFDM, Radio propagation models
  • Jim.henderson 01:13, 28 November 2006 (UTC) -- Old time New York switchman, have worked on Crossbar switch, 5ESS Switch, DMS-100 and others about which no articles yet exist.
  • Anoopkn 08:36, 25 January 2007 (UTC) -- Working on various aspects and elements of mobile communication
  • Amakder 18 Mar 07 -- Working in Mobile Telecommunications Engineering
  • hcberkowitz 16 May 2007. Network architect, participant in Internet Engineering Task Force, Internet Research Task Force, North American Network Operators Group, and old OSI architect. Interests in fault tolerance in both service provider and life-critical healthcare networks, routing & router design, network performance and security. Not yet clueful in Wiki editing.
  • Ke5crz 17:04, 27 May 2007 (UTC) I just like telecoms
  • Tanvir che (talk) 05:49, 13 March 2008 (UTC) I am interested on telecommunication companies of Bangladesh.

[edit] Articles needing attention

Article references older than six months may be removed.

[edit] New and rewritten pages to be reviewed

Most of these articles and sections are created or extensively revised by participants of this WikiProject:

[edit] Articles needing expert attention

Participants of the WikiProject has inquired help on the following articles:

See also

[edit] Stubs under construction

Participants of the WikiProject has inquired help on the following stubs:

  • Suggestions are welcome

See also:

[edit] Articles up for AfD deletion

  • Suggestions are welcome - Date


[edit] Previously proposed deletions

Recreated 2008-04-19 and rediricted to 4G. See the What to do about the removed "Beyond 3G", "3.5G" and "5G" articles? discussion.

[edit] Suggestions for new articles

See also Wikipedia:Requested articles/Applied arts and sciences/Computer science, computing, and Internet.

[edit] Articles of high importance

It is suggested that, for the moment, the project group should concentrate its effort on:

See also

[edit] Categories

[edit] Category hierachy

A list of the largest telecommunication related categories and sub-categories are presented here:

A suggestion for revised category structure can be found at User:Alinja/Comms, and is discussed at the WP:TEL talk page.

[edit] Category policies

The top category, Category:Communication should mainly deal with social science issues.

The Category:OSI protocols should be used as a map for categories to as large extent as possible.

The Category:Wireless communications is for anything pertaining to the use of radio waves in telecommunications, except broadcasting, which is covered in Category:Radio .

[edit] Suggestions for new and changed sub-categories

  • Example category: example was suggested by ~~~~.

[edit] New sub-categories

[edit] Categories requiering diffusion and clean-up

There are too many articles in these categories; they need to be moved to subcategories where appropriate.

[edit] Guidelines for authoring articles

[edit] Example of articles with good structure

[edit] Recommended article structure

Technical telecommunication articles should include the following:

  • Definition, scope, synonyms, autonym
  • Popular scientific introduction to the concept and its practical application for those unfamiliar with the subject matter
  • Historical background, including date of origin and originator if known
  • Key features, for example the advantages and disadvantages
  • Schematic description and principles of operation, perhaps with numerical examples and illustrations
  • Mathematical formulas and pseudo code are presented as late as possible
  • Technical details on special cases and instances of the concept, for example versions and implementations, perhaps presented in a comparison table
  • See also
  • References
  • External links

[edit] Recommended terminology

  • Eriterm - a five-language telecommunications glossary: English, Swedish, French, Spanish, German. Ericsson, Stockholm, Sweden, 1992, 683 pages, ISBN 91-630-0494-1
  • Telecommunications: Glossary of Telecommunication Terms, United States Federal Standard 1037C


[edit] Templates

[edit] This article is part of WikiProject Telecommunications

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[edit] Pages needing expert attention from Telecommunications experts

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[edit] Stubs

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[edit] WikiProject Deletion sorting

Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting is a new effort that attempts to classify various articles nominated for votes for deletion by major categories. The Telecommunications-related articles at VFD are listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Telecommunications.

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