This 68-paper collection represents a broad mix of telecommunications issues, problems, innovations, needs and resources, from a conference organized by the Pacific Telecommunications Council, an independent, voluntary-membership organization dedicated to the beneficial development and use of telecommunications in the broad Pacific area. Papers are organized generally by topics and include the following categories: institutional barriers to users; communications networks (application, measurements, design, and development); international issues and planning; World Administrative Radio Conference (WARC) issues; Pacific Island telecommunications; future directions of telecommunications standards; user experience and perspective; public service and educational uses of telecommunications; the consumers for telecommunications services; legal issues arising from the use of international information networks; telecommunications hardware systems; technology transfer (appropriate communications systems in the Pacific and Asia); social effects of telecommunications; demand, rates and regulation issues; transmission system quality control; the information economy; and the future of Pacific telecommunications. Most of the papers are prefaced with an abstract and include references. (LMM)