Consumer Education
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
Cagey Consumer - Includes tons of useful consumer information. Of particular interest is a section on telecom carriers, MLM schemes and FCC taxes.
CalTel - The California Association of Competitive Telecommunications Companies is a non-profit trade association working to advance the interests of fair and open competition and customer-focused service in California telecommunications.
Citizens Utility Board (Illinois) - A voice for residential and small-business utility ratepayers. CUB is a nonpartisan, nonprofit statewide organization funded by Illinois consumers and a grant from the Illinois Clean Energy Community Trust. Though created by the state, CUB receives no state tax dollars.
Citizens' Utility Board (Wisconsin) - Wisconsin's utility watchdog. Working to pass legislation in Wisconsin which will increase competition in the local telephone industry and establish penalties for service quality problems.
Consumer's Voice - A consumer advocacy group that reports on telecom competition, or lack thereof. Nice news section, and information on how to contact regulators.
Idaho Public Utilities Commission - Protecting consumers in the state of Idaho.
The Maryland People's Counsel - A state agency that represents residential consumers of telephone and energy services.
MIACT - Michigan Alliance for Competitive Telecommunications. A group dedicated to enacting legislation to foster local phone competition in the state of Michigan.
Michigan Citizen Action (MCA) - The largest independent membership-based public-watchdog group in the state.
National Phone Check - Carries a variety of info on telecom security, including how to secure your lines against taps and eavesdropping.
New Networks Institute - An excellent site, devoted to exposing overcharges and abuses by Regional Bell Operating Companies.
Office of Public Utility Counsel - To ensure that Texas consumers are effectively and efficiently served by high-quality professionals and businesses by setting clear standards, maintaining compliance, and seeking market-based standards.
SaveCompetition.com - Focuses on public policy issues facing CLECs.
Voices For Choices - Consumer interest site devoted to attacking the Bell monopolies.
We hope that you find these sites useful. If you have a site that you would like us to link, please drop a note to the Digest Info . We will be glad to take your submission into consideration. Reciprocal links are appreciated. :-) For more information about linking to us, please go here.
Affiliate Programs | Agent Programs | Antique & Collectible Telephones | Associations & Trade Groups | Agent Support Services | Broadband & Wireless | Call Centers | Cellular/PCS | Cognigen Sites | Communications Cabling | Comparison Sites | Conference Calls | Consultants | Consumer Education | Consumer Protest Sites | Debt Consolidation | Dial-Around + 1010 Programs | E-Commerce | Education | European Telecoms | Fiber Optics | Insurance | International Callback | International Networking Companies | Internet Faxing | Internet Service Providers | Jobs | Loans & Mortgages | Local Phone Service | Miscellaneous | Network Design | Payment & Collections | Payphones | Phone Accessories | Prepaid Phonecards | Product Design | Research & Reports | Satellite TV | Search Engine Positioning | Search Engines | Service Providers | Telecommunications History | Telecommunications Images | Telecom Resources | Telecom Search Firms | Telecom Software | Telemarketing | Toll-Free Issues | VoDSL | Voice Mail Services | Links Home
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
|










