Whether it was free phone calls, temporary equipment or monetary gifts, many telecommunication companies reached out to help those affected by the terrorist attacks on 11 September in New York City and Washington, D.C.

Here are some of the reported donations:

• The American Liberty Partnership, a Web site sponsored by Amazon.com, AOL Time Warner, Cisco Systems, eBay, Microsoft and Yahoo!, has collected nearly $58 million in donations for 30 charitable groups, including the American Red Cross, Salvation Army and the New York State World Trade Center Relief Fund.

• Accenture is implementing a three-part program that will enable the company and its employees to contribute up to $4 million. The Accenture Disaster Relief Fund is being established to assist those affected by the disaster; Accenture is making a $1 million donation to the American Red Cross on behalf of all Accenture employees; and Accenture has pledged $1 million in in-kind services, which refers to the costs of employees who wish to volunteer, to help the New York City community.

• Cisco Systems has made gifts to relief and support organizations serving the New York City and Washington D.C. areas, including a $6 million donation.

• The AT&T Foundation will donate $1 million to the American Red Cross and has committed up to an additional $300,000 in funds to match employee donations. It also will donate $10 million in AT&T prepaid long-distance calling cards for use by relief workers and provide free AT&T long-distance service from all payphones in the affected areas of New York City for the duration of the emergency. AT&T Wireless also donated 2,000 cell phones with unlimited service for use by federal, state and local government agencies and relief workers and is delivering thousands more to meet needs of agencies and relief workers.

• The SBC Foundation, the philanthropic division of SBC Communications Inc., will donate $1 million to The New York Times 9/11 Neediest Fund and provide unlimited dollar-for-dollar match contributions made by its employees and retirees to the American Red Cross, The Salvation Army, The September 11th Fund, Catholic Charities, The International Association of Firefighters Fund, United Jewish Communities Emergency Relief Fund, Communications Workers of America Disaster Relief Fund, NYC Public Private Initiatives and the SBC Pioneers 9-11-01 Fund.

• Cingular Wireless and its employees have pledged up to $1 million in donations to The September 11th Relief Fund and the American Red Cross. Cingular also is donating $500,000 to the United Way fund and will match, dollar for dollar up to $500,000, contributions made by employees to the American Red Cross. It also has made a donation to the U.S. Services Organization at Dover (Delaware) Air Force Base.

• NEC Corp. and NEC Foundation of America are making donations totaling $1 million to support relief efforts. NEC Corp. will make a $700,000 contribution to The September 11th Fund, and NEC Foundation of America will make a $300,000 donation to the Families of Freedom Scholarship Fund.

• Microsoft ($10 million), IBM Corp. ($5 million) and Intel Corp. (matching employee contributions) are contributing to the The September 11th Fund.

• Verity Inc. is donating $1 million to the 9/11 Response Fund.

• Sprint has donated $500,000 to the American Red Cross, while Sprint PCS provided nearly 2,000 wireless phones and service to rescue workers in New York City and another 300 phones to workers in Washington, D.C. Sprint PCS stores in New York provided free emergency calling, and Sprint programmed its payphones in New York City to allow free outgoing calls. Sprint also donated phone cards for free long-distance calling on other wireline phones.

• Corning Inc.'s Corning Foundation will donate $100,000 to The September 11th Fund and make a $100,000 donation to the American Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund. The foundation also will contribute $1 for every $1 donated by Corning employees and retirees to the disaster relief fund.

• OPNET Technologies Inc. and its staff have pledged approximately $25,000 in contributions to The September 11th Fund and the Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund.

• Verizon installed more than 220 wireless payphones in southern Manhattan the day after the tragedy and sponsored existing payphones so that people could make free phone calls to loved ones, bosses, banks and businesses.

• Yipes Communications is providing free Internet access, office-to-office metropolitan area network access or point-to-point metropolitan area network access to businesses that are relocating to new spaces in Manhattan.

• Vector Networks Inc. donated 300 licenses of its PC-Duo remote control software, allowing the Red Cross team to remotely connect all of the desktops at its satellite locations.

• BusinessEdge Solutions Inc., a downtown Manhattan-based IT consulting firm that lost its offices in the disaster, is contributing technology services, including project recovery, network and technology restoration and temporary space to support affected businesses.

• Fluke Networks initiated an Emergency Relief Program aimed at helping to restore communications services to companies and organizations affected by the attack. It will provide loaner equipment, technical expertise, expedited delivery and on-site assistance until service is restored to those affected networks.

• Vidoconferencing manufacturers Polycom Inc. and PictureTel Corp. have teamed up with a global network of videoconferencing suppliers to provide business communications facilities for affected individuals and organizations needing real-time communications.

• CosmoCom will provide its all-IP contact center software, CosmoCall Universe, at no charge to organizations needing to rapidly replace mission critical call center functions or deploy hotlines.