<PAGE>   1

     As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 9, 1999

================================================================================

                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                             WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

                                   ----------

                                    FORM S-8

                             REGISTRATION STATEMENT
                                      UNDER
                           THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

                        FRANKLIN TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP.
             (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

            CALIFORNIA                                    95-3733534
(State or other jurisdiction of                        (I.R.S. Employer 
incorporation or organization)                        Identification No.)

                               733 LAKEFIELD ROAD
                       WESTLAKE VILLAGE, CALIFORNIA 91361
               (Address of Principal Executive Office) (Zip Code)

                        1998 EXECUTIVE STOCK OPTION PLAN
                           (Full titles of the plans)

                                 FRANK W. PETERS
                               733 LAKEFIELD ROAD
                       WESTLAKE VILLAGE, CALIFORNIA 91361
                     (Name and address of agent for service)

                                 (805) 373-8688
          (Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

                                   ----------

                         CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
===============================================================================================================
                                             Proposed Maximum             Proposed Maximum
Title of Securities    Amount to Be           Offering Price             Aggregate Offering       Amount of
 to Be Registered       Registered             Per Share(1)                    Price(1)        Registration Fee
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
<S>                     <C>                       <C>                        <C>                    <C>    
Common Stock,
  without par value     1,300,000                 $ .44                        $572,000             $159.02
===============================================================================================================
</TABLE>

(1) Estimated solely for the purpose of calculating the amount of the
    registration fee pursuant to Rule 457.

================================================================================
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                                     PART II

               INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

ITEM 3.     INCORPORATION OF CERTAIN DOCUMENTS BY REFERENCE.

            The following documents filed with the Securities and Exchange
Commission (the "Commission") pursuant to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,
as amended (the "Exchange Act") are hereby incorporated by reference in this
Registration Statement except as superseded or modified herein: (i) Registrant's
Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended June 30, 1998, (ii) Registrant's
Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarters ended September 30, 1998 and
December 31, 1998, (iii) the description of the Registrant's Common Stock,
contained in its Registration Statement on Form 8-A dated October 8, 1997,
including any amendment or reports filed for the purpose of updating such
description. All documents filed by the Registrant with the Commission pursuant
to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act after the date of this
Registration Statement and prior to the time a post- effective amendment which
indicates that the securities offered hereby have been sold or which deregisters
all securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by
reference into this Registration Statement and to be a part hereof from the date
of filing of such documents. Any statement contained in any document
incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference herein shall be deemed to
be modified or superseded for purposes of this Registration Statement to the
extent that a statement contained herein or in any other subsequently filed
document which also is or is deemed to be incorporated by reference herein
modifies or supersedes such statement. Any such statement so modified or
superseded shall not be deemed, except as modified or superseded, to constitute
a part of this Registration Statement.

ITEM 4.     DESCRIPTION OF SECURITIES

            Not applicable.

ITEM 5.     INTERESTS OF NAMED EXPERTS AND COUNSEL

            Not applicable.

ITEM 6.     INDEMNIFICATION OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS.

            The Company's Articles of Incorporation limit the liability of
directors to the maximum extent permitted by California law. California law
provides that directors of a California corporation will not be personally
liable for monetary damages for breach of their fiduciary duties as directors
except for liability as a result of their duty of loyalty to the company for
acts or omissions not in good faith or which involve intentional misconduct or a
knowing violation of law, unlawful payments of dividends or stock transactions,
unauthorized distributions of assets, loans of corporate assets to an officer or
director, unauthorized purchase of shares, commencing business before obtaining
minimum capital, or any transaction from which a director derived an improper
benefit. Such limitations do not affect the availability of equitable remedies
such as injunctive relief or rescission. In addition, the Company's Bylaws
provide that the Company must indemnify its officers and directors, and may
indemnify its employees and other agents, to the fullest extent permitted by
California law. The Company has entered into Indemnification Agreements with
each of its officers and directors. At present, there is no pending litigation
or proceeding involving any director, officer, employee, or agent of the Company
where indemnification will be required or permitted. Insofar as indemnification
for liabilities arising under the Securities Act may be permitted to officers,
directors or persons controlling the Company pursuant to the foregoing
provisions, the Company has been informed that in the opinion of the Securities
and Exchange

                                        2

<PAGE>   3

Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the
Securities Act and is therefore unenforceable.

ITEM 7.     EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION CLAIMED.

            Not applicable

ITEM 8.     EXHIBITS.

             3.1        Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation of 
                        Registrant.(1)

             3.2        Amended and Restated Bylaws of Registrant.(1)

             5.1        Opinion of  Haddan & Zepfel LLP

            23.1        Consent of Corbin & Wertz

            23.2        Consent of Singer Lewak Greenbaum & Goldstein LLP

            24.2        Consent of Haddan & Zepfel LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1)

---------------
(1)   Incorporated by reference from Registrant's Registration Statement on Form
      S-1 (No. 333-24791), filed with the Commission on April 9, 1997, and
      incorporated herein by reference.

ITEM 9.     UNDERTAKINGS.

            The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes:

            (a)(1) To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being
made, a post-effective amendment to this registration statement:

                        (i) To include any prospectus required by Section
10(a)(3) of the Securities Act of 1933 (the "Securities Act");

                        (ii) To reflect in the prospectus any facts or events
arising after the effective date of the registration statement (or the most
recent post-effective amendment thereof) which, individually or in the
aggregate, represents a fundamental change in the information set forth in the
registration statement;

                        (iii) To include any material information with respect
to the plan of distribution not previously disclosed in the registration
statement or any material change to such information in the registration
statement.

                        Provided, however, that paragraphs (a)(1)(i) and
(a)(1)(ii) do not apply if the information required to be included in a
post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is contained in periodic reports
filed by the registrant pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange
Act that are incorporated by reference in the registration statement.

                (2) That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the
Securities Act, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new
registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the
offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona
fide offering thereof.


                                        3

<PAGE>   4

                (3) To remove from registration by means of a post-effective
amendment any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the
termination of the offering.

            (b) The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes
of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each filing of the
registrant's annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the
Exchange Act (and, where applicable, each filing of an employee benefit plan's
annual report pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act) that is
incorporated by reference in the registration statement shall be deemed to be a
new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the
offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona
fide offering thereof.

            (h) Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the
Securities Act may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons
of the registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the
registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange
Commission such indemnification is against pubic policy as expressed in the Act
and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification
against such liabilities (other than the payment by the registrant of expenses
incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the registrant
in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such
director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being
registered, the registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter
has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate
jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public
policy as expressed in the Securities Act and will be governed by the final
adjudication of such issue.


                                        4

<PAGE>   5

                                   SIGNATURES

            Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the
registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all
of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Registration
Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly
authorized, in the City of Westlake Village, State of California, on April 7,
1999.

                                               Franklin Telecommunications Corp.


                                               By: /s/ FRANK W. PETERS
                                               ------------------------------
                                                       Frank W. Peters, 
                                                       Chief Executive Officer


KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below
constitutes and appoints Frank W. Peters his attorney-in-fact and agent, with
full power of substitution, for him and in his name, place and stead, in any and
all capacities, to sign any or all amendments to this Registration Statement,
and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in
connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto
said attorney-in-fact and agent full power and authority to do and perform each
and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the
premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he might or could do in
person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorney-in-fact and
agent, or his substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by
virtue hereof.

            Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this
Registration Statement has been signed below by the following persons in the
capacities and on the date indicated:

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>

 Signature                                   Title                        Date      
 ---------                                   -----                        ----      
<S>                                   <C>                           <C>             
(1) PRINCIPAL EXECUTIVE OFFICER                                                    
                                                                                   
/s/ FRANK W. PETERS                  President and a Director         April 7, 1999
-------------------------------             
    Frank W. Peters                             


(2) PRINCIPAL FINANCIAL AND ACCOUNTING OFFICER

/s/ THOMAS RUSSELL                   Chief Financial Officer          April 7, 1999
-------------------------------         and a Director                                
    Thomas Russell                                                    


(3) DIRECTORS

/s/ PETER S. BUSWELL                 President and a Director         April 7, 1999
-------------------------------                                                     
    Peter S. Buswell                                                                
                                                                                    
/s/ ROBERT S. HARP                   Director                         April 7, 1999
-------------------------------
    Robert S. Harp

/s/ HERB MITCHELL                    Director                         April 7, 1999
-------------------------------
    Herb Mitchell

</TABLE>


                                        5

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                                  EXHIBIT INDEX

EXHIBIT
NUMBER                        DESCRIPTION
------                        -----------

 3.1      Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation of Registrant.(1)

 3.2      Amended and Restated Bylaws of Registrant.(1)

 5.1      Opinion of  Haddan & Zepfel LLP

23.1      Consent of Corbin & Wertz

23.2      Consent of Singer Lewak Greenbaum & Goldstein LLP

24.2      Consent of Haddan & Zepfel LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1)

----------------
(1)   Incorporated by reference from Registrant's Registration Statement on Form
      S-1 (No. 333-24791), filed with the Commission on April 9, 1997, and
      incorporated herein by reference.
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1

     As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 9, 1999

================================================================================

                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                             WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

                                   ----------

                                    FORM S-8

                             REGISTRATION STATEMENT
                                      UNDER
                           THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

                        FRANKLIN TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP.
             (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

            CALIFORNIA                                    95-3733534
(State or other jurisdiction of                        (I.R.S. Employer 
incorporation or organization)                        Identification No.)

                               733 LAKEFIELD ROAD
                       WESTLAKE VILLAGE, CALIFORNIA 91361
               (Address of Principal Executive Office) (Zip Code)

                        1998 EXECUTIVE STOCK OPTION PLAN
                           (Full titles of the plans)

                                 FRANK W. PETERS
                               733 LAKEFIELD ROAD
                       WESTLAKE VILLAGE, CALIFORNIA 91361
                     (Name and address of agent for service)

                                 (805) 373-8688
          (Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

                                   ----------

                         CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
===============================================================================================================
                                             Proposed Maximum             Proposed Maximum
Title of Securities    Amount to Be           Offering Price             Aggregate Offering       Amount of
 to Be Registered       Registered             Per Share(1)                    Price(1)        Registration Fee
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Common Stock,
  without par value     1,300,000                 $ .44                        $572,000             $159.02
===============================================================================================================
(1) Estimated solely for the purpose of calculating the amount of the
    registration fee pursuant to Rule 457.

================================================================================
2

                                     PART II

               INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

ITEM 3.     INCORPORATION OF CERTAIN DOCUMENTS BY REFERENCE.

            The following documents filed with the Securities and Exchange
Commission (the "Commission") pursuant to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,
as amended (the "Exchange Act") are hereby incorporated by reference in this
Registration Statement except as superseded or modified herein: (i) Registrant's
Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended June 30, 1998, (ii) Registrant's
Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarters ended September 30, 1998 and
December 31, 1998, (iii) the description of the Registrant's Common Stock,
contained in its Registration Statement on Form 8-A dated October 8, 1997,
including any amendment or reports filed for the purpose of updating such
description. All documents filed by the Registrant with the Commission pursuant
to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act after the date of this
Registration Statement and prior to the time a post- effective amendment which
indicates that the securities offered hereby have been sold or which deregisters
all securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by
reference into this Registration Statement and to be a part hereof from the date
of filing of such documents. Any statement contained in any document
incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference herein shall be deemed to
be modified or superseded for purposes of this Registration Statement to the
extent that a statement contained herein or in any other subsequently filed
document which also is or is deemed to be incorporated by reference herein
modifies or supersedes such statement. Any such statement so modified or
superseded shall not be deemed, except as modified or superseded, to constitute
a part of this Registration Statement.

ITEM 4.     DESCRIPTION OF SECURITIES

            Not applicable.

ITEM 5.     INTERESTS OF NAMED EXPERTS AND COUNSEL

            Not applicable.

ITEM 6.     INDEMNIFICATION OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS.

            The Company's Articles of Incorporation limit the liability of
directors to the maximum extent permitted by California law. California law
provides that directors of a California corporation will not be personally
liable for monetary damages for breach of their fiduciary duties as directors
except for liability as a result of their duty of loyalty to the company for
acts or omissions not in good faith or which involve intentional misconduct or a
knowing violation of law, unlawful payments of dividends or stock transactions,
unauthorized distributions of assets, loans of corporate assets to an officer or
director, unauthorized purchase of shares, commencing business before obtaining
minimum capital, or any transaction from which a director derived an improper
benefit. Such limitations do not affect the availability of equitable remedies
such as injunctive relief or rescission. In addition, the Company's Bylaws
provide that the Company must indemnify its officers and directors, and may
indemnify its employees and other agents, to the fullest extent permitted by
California law. The Company has entered into Indemnification Agreements with
each of its officers and directors. At present, there is no pending litigation
or proceeding involving any director, officer, employee, or agent of the Company
where indemnification will be required or permitted. Insofar as indemnification
for liabilities arising under the Securities Act may be permitted to officers,
directors or persons controlling the Company pursuant to the foregoing
provisions, the Company has been informed that in the opinion of the Securities
and Exchange

                                        2
3

Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the
Securities Act and is therefore unenforceable.

ITEM 7.     EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION CLAIMED.

            Not applicable

ITEM 8.     EXHIBITS.

             3.1        Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation of 
                        Registrant.(1)

             3.2        Amended and Restated Bylaws of Registrant.(1)

             5.1        Opinion of  Haddan & Zepfel LLP

            23.1        Consent of Corbin & Wertz

            23.2        Consent of Singer Lewak Greenbaum & Goldstein LLP

            24.2        Consent of Haddan & Zepfel LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1)

---------------
(1)   Incorporated by reference from Registrant's Registration Statement on Form
      S-1 (No. 333-24791), filed with the Commission on April 9, 1997, and
      incorporated herein by reference.

ITEM 9.     UNDERTAKINGS.

            The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes:

            (a)(1) To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being
made, a post-effective amendment to this registration statement:

                        (i) To include any prospectus required by Section
10(a)(3) of the Securities Act of 1933 (the "Securities Act");

                        (ii) To reflect in the prospectus any facts or events
arising after the effective date of the registration statement (or the most
recent post-effective amendment thereof) which, individually or in the
aggregate, represents a fundamental change in the information set forth in the
registration statement;

                        (iii) To include any material information with respect
to the plan of distribution not previously disclosed in the registration
statement or any material change to such information in the registration
statement.

                        Provided, however, that paragraphs (a)(1)(i) and
(a)(1)(ii) do not apply if the information required to be included in a
post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is contained in periodic reports
filed by the registrant pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange
Act that are incorporated by reference in the registration statement.

                (2) That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the
Securities Act, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new
registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the
offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona
fide offering thereof.

                                        3
4

                (3) To remove from registration by means of a post-effective
amendment any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the
termination of the offering.

            (b) The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes
of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each filing of the
registrant's annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the
Exchange Act (and, where applicable, each filing of an employee benefit plan's
annual report pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act) that is
incorporated by reference in the registration statement shall be deemed to be a
new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the
offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona
fide offering thereof.

            (h) Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the
Securities Act may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons
of the registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the
registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange
Commission such indemnification is against pubic policy as expressed in the Act
and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification
against such liabilities (other than the payment by the registrant of expenses
incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the registrant
in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such
director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being
registered, the registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter
has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate
jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public
policy as expressed in the Securities Act and will be governed by the final
adjudication of such issue.

                                        4
5

                                   SIGNATURES

            Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the
registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all
of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Registration
Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly
authorized, in the City of Westlake Village, State of California, on April 7,
1999.

                                               Franklin Telecommunications Corp.

                                               By: /s/ FRANK W. PETERS
                                               ------------------------------
                                                       Frank W. Peters, 
                                                       Chief Executive Officer

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below
constitutes and appoints Frank W. Peters his attorney-in-fact and agent, with
full power of substitution, for him and in his name, place and stead, in any and
all capacities, to sign any or all amendments to this Registration Statement,
and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in
connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto
said attorney-in-fact and agent full power and authority to do and perform each
and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the
premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he might or could do in
person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorney-in-fact and
agent, or his substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by
virtue hereof.

            Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this
Registration Statement has been signed below by the following persons in the
capacities and on the date indicated:
Signature                                   Title                        Date      
 ---------                                   -----                        ----
(1) PRINCIPAL EXECUTIVE OFFICER                                                    
                                                                                   
/s/ FRANK W. PETERS                  President and a Director         April 7, 1999
-------------------------------             
    Frank W. Peters                             

(2) PRINCIPAL FINANCIAL AND ACCOUNTING OFFICER

/s/ THOMAS RUSSELL                   Chief Financial Officer          April 7, 1999
-------------------------------         and a Director                                
    Thomas Russell                                                    

(3) DIRECTORS

/s/ PETER S. BUSWELL                 President and a Director         April 7, 1999
-------------------------------                                                     
    Peter S. Buswell                                                                
                                                                                    
/s/ ROBERT S. HARP                   Director                         April 7, 1999
-------------------------------
    Robert S. Harp

/s/ HERB MITCHELL                    Director                         April 7, 1999
-------------------------------
    Herb Mitchell
5
6

                                  EXHIBIT INDEX

EXHIBIT
NUMBER                        DESCRIPTION
------                        -----------

 3.1      Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation of Registrant.(1)

 3.2      Amended and Restated Bylaws of Registrant.(1)

 5.1      Opinion of  Haddan & Zepfel LLP

23.1      Consent of Corbin & Wertz

23.2      Consent of Singer Lewak Greenbaum & Goldstein LLP

24.2      Consent of Haddan & Zepfel LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1)

----------------
(1)   Incorporated by reference from Registrant's Registration Statement on Form
      S-1 (No. 333-24791), filed with the Commission on April 9, 1997, and
      incorporated herein by reference.