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Dodd, Annabel Z.
  The essential guide to telecommunications / Annabel Z. Dodd. -- 3rd ed.
     p. cm
  Includes index.
  ISBN 0-13-064907-4 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  1. Telecommunication. I. Title.>

  TK5105 .D54 2001
  384--dc21                                        2001036429

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