<PAGE>   1


 As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March     , 2000
                                                               ---

                                                   Registration No. 333 -
                                                                         -------

                                  UNITED STATES
                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                             Washington, D.C. 20549

                                    FORM S-8

                          REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER
                           THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
                                -----------------

                      ELECTRONIC TELE-COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
             (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

                     WISCONSIN                                39-1357760
          (State or other jurisdiction of                    (I.R.S. Employer
          incorporation or organization)                     Identification No.)

            1915 MACARTHUR ROAD
            WAUKESHA, WISCONSIN                                    53188
    (Address of Principal Executive Offices)                     (Zip Code)
                                       ------------------------

                      ELECTRONIC TELE-COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
                       1999 NONQUALIFIED STOCK OPTION PLAN
                            (Full title of the plan)
                             ----------------------

         DEAN W. DANNER                                  Copy to:
 President and Chief Executive Officer            CONRAD G. GOODKIND, ESQ.
 Electronic Tele-Communications, Inc.               Quarles & Brady LLP
        1915 MacArthur Road                      411 East Wisconsin Avenue
     Waukesha, Wisconsin 53188                   Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53202
                     (Name and address of agent for service)

                                 (262) 542-5600
          (Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)
                           --------------------------
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                                           CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
==================================================================================================================================
                                                               Proposed              Proposed
                                          Amount to be     maximum offering      maximum aggregate              Amount of
 Title of Securities to be registered      registered     price per share (1)     offering price             registration fee

<S>                                       <C>             <C>                    <C>                         <C>
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
         Class A Common Stock,             175,000(1)           (2)(3)              $678,125(2)                  $135.63
       $.01 par value per share
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
</TABLE>


     (1) The Plan provides for the possible adjustment of the number, price and
kind of shares covered by options granted or to be granted in the event of
certain capital or other changes affecting the Registrant's Class A Common
Stock. This Registration Statement, therefore, covers, in addition to the
above-stated 175,000 shares, an indeterminate number of shares that may become
subject to the Plan by reason of such adjustment.


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     (2) Estimated solely for the purpose of computing the registration fee in
accordance with Rule 457(h) under the Securities Act of 1933. The proposed
maximum offering price is based upon a market price of $3.875 per share, which
is the average of the bid and asked price of the Registrant's Common Stock on
March 23, 2000, as reported in the over-the counter-market.

     (3) In accordance with the terms of the Plan, the actual offering price of
each share of the Registrant's Class A Common Stock covered by an option shall
be 100% of the Fair Market Value of such stock on the date the option is
granted.


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                                     PART I

              INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(A) PROSPECTUS

     Information specified in Part I of Form S-8 (Items 1 and 2) will be sent or
given to Plan participants as specified by Rule 428(b)(1) under the Securities
Act of 1933.

                                     PART II

               INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

ITEM 3.  INCORPORATION OF DOCUMENTS BY REFERENCE.

     The following documents filed by Electronic Tele-Communications, Inc. (the
"Registrant")(Commission File No. 0-13981) with the Securities and Exchange
Commission (the "Commission") pursuant to Section 13 of the Securities Exchange
of 1934 (the "1934 Act") are incorporated herein by reference:

         (a)    the Registrant's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal
                year ended December 31, 1999;

         (b)    the Registrant's Quarterly Reports for the quarterly periods
                ended March 31, 1999, June 30, 1999, and September 30, 1999;
                and

         (c)    the description of the Registrant's Class A Common Stock
                contained in its Registration Statement on Form S-8 filed on
                August 25, 1989, and any amendments or reports filed for the
                purpose of updating such description.

     All documents subsequently filed by the Registrant pursuant to Sections
13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the 1934 Act, prior to the filing of a
post-effective amendment which indicates that all securities offered hereby have
been sold or which deregisters all securities then remaining unsold, shall be
deemed to be incorporated by reference herein and to be a part hereof from the
date of the filing of such documents.

     Any statement contained in a document incorporated or deemed to be
incorporated by reference herein shall be deemed to be modified or superseded
for purposes hereof 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 statement so
modified or superseded shall not be deemed, except as so modified or superseded,
to constitute a part hereof.

ITEM 4.  DESCRIPTION OF SECURITIES.

         Not applicable.  See Item 3(c) above.

ITEM 5.  INTERESTS OF NAMED EXPERTS AND COUNSEL.

     The legality of the sale of the securities registered hereunder will be
passed on for the Registrant by Quarles & Brady LLP, the Registrant's legal
counsel. Peter J. Lettenberger, a Director of the Registrant, is a partner of
Quarles & Brady LLP.



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ITEM 6.  INDEMNIFICATION OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS.

     The Registrant is incorporated under the Wisconsin Business Corporation Law
("WBCL").

     Under Section 180.0851(1) of the WBCL, the Registrant is required to
indemnify a director or officer, to the extent such person is successful on the
merits or otherwise in the defense of a proceeding, for all reasonable expenses
incurred in the proceeding if such person was a party because he or she was a
director or officer of the Registrant. In all other cases, the Registrant is
required by Section 180.0851(2) of the WBCL to indemnify a director or officer
against liability incurred in a proceeding to which such person was a party
because he or she was an officer or director of the Registrant, unless it is
determined that he or she breached or failed to perform a duty owed to the
Registrant and the breach or failure to perform constitutes:

-                 a willful failure to deal fairly with the Registrant or its
         shareholders in connection with a matter in which the director or
         officer has a material conflict of interest;

-                 a violation of criminal law, unless the director or officer
         had reasonable cause to believe his or her conduct was lawful or no
         reasonable cause to believe his or her conduct was unlawful;

-                 a transaction from which the director or officer derived an
         improper personal profit; or

-                 willful misconduct.

Section 180.0858 of the WBCL provides that, subject to certain limitations, the
mandatory indemnification provisions do not preclude any additional right to
indemnification or allowance of expenses that a director or officer may have
under the Registrant's Articles of Incorporation, Bylaws, any written agreement
between the director or officer and the Registrant or a resolution of the Board
of Directors or shareholders.

     Section 180.0859 of the WBCL provides that it is the public policy of the
State of Wisconsin to require or permit indemnification, allowance of expenses
and insurance to the extent required or permitted under Sections 180.0850 to
180.0858 of the WBCL for any liability incurred in connection with a proceeding
involving a federal or state statute, rule or regulation regulating the offer,
sale or purchase of securities.

     Section 180.0828 of the WBCL provides that, with certain exceptions, a
director is not liable to a corporation, its shareholders, or any person
asserting rights on behalf of the corporation or its shareholders, for damages,
settlements, fees, fines, penalties or other monetary liabilities arising from a
breach of, or failure to perform, any duty resulting solely from his or her
status as a director, unless the person asserting liability proves that the
breach or failure to perform constitutes any of the four exceptions to mandatory
indemnification under Section 180.0851(2) referred to above.

     Article IX of the Registrant's Bylaws generally provides that the Company
shall indemnify any officer or director acting in such capacity if the person
acted in good faith and in a manner he reasonably believed to be in or not
opposed to the best interests of the corporation and, with respect to any
criminal action or proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe his conduct
was unlawful.

     Directors and officers of the Registrant are covered by directors' and
officers' liability insurance under which they are insured (subject to certain
exceptions and limitations specified in the policy) against expenses and
liabilities arising out of proceedings to which they are parties by reason of
being of having been directors or officers.

     Under Section 180.0833 of the WBCL, directors of the Registrant against
whom claims are asserted with respect to the declaration of an improper dividend
or distribution to shareholders or certain other improper acts which they
approved are entitled to contribution from other directors who approved such
actions and from shareholders who knowingly accepted an improper dividend or
distribution, as provided therein.



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ITEM 7.  EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION CLAIMED.

         Not applicable.

ITEM 8.  EXHIBITS.

     See the Exhibit Index following the Signatures page in this Registration
Statement, which Exhibit Index is incorporated herein by reference.

ITEM 9.  UNDERTAKINGS.

         (a)    The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes:

                (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;

                           (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, represent a fundamental change in the information set forth in the
Registration Statement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any increase or decrease
in volume of securities offered (if the total dollar value of securities offered
would not exceed that which was registered) and any deviation from the low or
high end of the estimated maximum offering range may be reflected in the form of
prospectus filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) if, in the
aggregate, the changes in volume and price represent no more than a 20% change
in the maximum aggregate offering price set forth in the "Calculation of
Registration Fee" table in the effective 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) of
this section do not apply if the Registration Statement is on Form S-3, Form S-8
or Form F-3, and the information required to be included in a post-effective
amendment by those paragraphs is contained in periodic reports filed with or
furnished to the Commission by the Registrant pursuant to Section 13 or Section
15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that are incorporated by reference
in the Registration Statement.

                  (2) That, for the purpose of determining any liability under
the Securities Act of 1933, 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) 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 of 1933, each filing of the
Registrant's annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (and, where applicable, each filing of an
employee benefit plan's annual report pursuant to Section 15(d) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934) 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) Reference is made to the indemnification provisions described in
Item 6 of this Registration Statement.

         Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities
Act of 1933 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 public policy as expressed in the Act
and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for



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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 Act and will
be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.



<PAGE>   7




                                   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, hereunto duly
authorized, in the City of Waukesha, State of Wisconsin, on March 24 , 2000.


                                           ELECTRONIC TELE-COMMUNICATIONS, INC.


                                       By:  /s/ Dean W. Danner
                                          -------------------------------------
                                                                 Dean W. Danner
                                          President and Chief Executive Officer



                                POWER OF ATTORNEY

     KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears
below constitutes and appoints Dean W. Danner and Jeffrey M. Nigl, or either of
them, his true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of
substitution and resubstitution, for him and in his name, place and stead, in
any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments (including post-effective
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, and any other regulatory authority, granting
unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, 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
attorneys-in-fact and agents or any of them, or their 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 by the following persons in the
capacities and on the dates indicated.


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Signature                                   Title                                                  Date
---------                                   -----                                                  ----

<S>                                        <C>                                                    <C>
 /s/ Dean W. Danner                         President, Chief Executive Officer and Director        March 24, 2000
--------------------------------------
Dean W. Danner                              (Principal Executive Officer)

 /s/ Jeffrey M. Nigl                        Vice President, Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer  March 24, 2000
------------------------------------
Jeffrey M. Nigl                             (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)

 /s/ Bonita M. Danner                       Vice President Engineering and Director                March 24, 2000
------------------------------------
Bonita M. Danner
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                                       1

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<S>                                        <C>                                                   <C>
 /s/ Hazel Danner                           Secretary and Director                                 March 24, 2000
-----------------------------------
Hazel Danner

 /s/ George W. Danner                       Director                                               March 24, 2000
-----------------------------------
George W. Danner

                                            Director                                                       , 2000
-----------------------------------                                                                --------
Joanne B. Huelsman

                                            Director                                                       , 2000
-----------------------------------                                                                --------
A. William Huelsman

 /s/ Peter J. Lettenberger                  Director                                               March 24, 2000
-----------------------------------
Peter J. Lettenberger

                                            Director                                                       , 2000
-----------------------------------                                                                --------
Richard A. Gabriel
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                      ELECTRONIC TELE-COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
                               (THE "REGISTRANT")
                          (COMMISSION FILE NO. 0-13981)

                                  EXHIBIT INDEX
                                       TO
                         FORM S-8 REGISTRATION STATEMENT

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   Exhibit                                                             Incorporated Herein              Filed
   Number                        Description                             By Reference To               Herewith
   ------                        -----------                             ---------------               --------
<S>           <C>                                              <C>                               <C>

4.1            Restated Articles of Incorporation of the        Restated Articles of
               Registrant                                       Incorporation filed as Exhibit
                                                                3.1 to Form S-1 (No. 2-99175)
                                                                filed on July 24, 1985 ("Form S-1")

4.2            Bylaws of the Registrant                                                                   X
5              Opinion of Quarles & Brady LLP                                                             X
23.1           Consent of Independent Accountants                                                         X
23.2           Consent of Quarles & Brady LLP                                                      Contained in
                                                                                                   opinion filed
                                                                                                   as Exhibit 5

24             Powers of Attorney                                                                  Signatures page
                                                                                                   to this
                                                                                                   Registration
                                                                                                   Statement

99             Electronic Tele-Communications, Inc. 1999                                                  X
               Nonqualified Stock Option Plan
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1

 As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March     , 2000
                                                               ---

                                                   Registration No. 333 -
                                                                         -------

                                  UNITED STATES
                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                             Washington, D.C. 20549

                                    FORM S-8

                          REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER
                           THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
                                -----------------

                      ELECTRONIC TELE-COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
             (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

                     WISCONSIN                                39-1357760
          (State or other jurisdiction of                    (I.R.S. Employer
          incorporation or organization)                     Identification No.)

            1915 MACARTHUR ROAD
            WAUKESHA, WISCONSIN                                    53188
    (Address of Principal Executive Offices)                     (Zip Code)
                                       ------------------------

                      ELECTRONIC TELE-COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
                       1999 NONQUALIFIED STOCK OPTION PLAN
                            (Full title of the plan)
                             ----------------------

         DEAN W. DANNER                                  Copy to:
 President and Chief Executive Officer            CONRAD G. GOODKIND, ESQ.
 Electronic Tele-Communications, Inc.               Quarles & Brady LLP
        1915 MacArthur Road                      411 East Wisconsin Avenue
     Waukesha, Wisconsin 53188                   Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53202
                     (Name and address of agent for service)

                                 (262) 542-5600
          (Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)
                           --------------------------
CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
==================================================================================================================================
                                                               Proposed              Proposed
                                          Amount to be     maximum offering      maximum aggregate              Amount of
 Title of Securities to be registered      registered     price per share (1)     offering price             registration fee
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
         Class A Common Stock,             175,000(1)           (2)(3)              $678,125(2)                  $135.63
       $.01 par value per share
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(1) The Plan provides for the possible adjustment of the number, price and
kind of shares covered by options granted or to be granted in the event of
certain capital or other changes affecting the Registrant's Class A Common
Stock. This Registration Statement, therefore, covers, in addition to the
above-stated 175,000 shares, an indeterminate number of shares that may become
subject to the Plan by reason of such adjustment.
2

     (2) Estimated solely for the purpose of computing the registration fee in
accordance with Rule 457(h) under the Securities Act of 1933. The proposed
maximum offering price is based upon a market price of $3.875 per share, which
is the average of the bid and asked price of the Registrant's Common Stock on
March 23, 2000, as reported in the over-the counter-market.

     (3) In accordance with the terms of the Plan, the actual offering price of
each share of the Registrant's Class A Common Stock covered by an option shall
be 100% of the Fair Market Value of such stock on the date the option is
granted.
3

                                     PART I

              INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(A) PROSPECTUS

     Information specified in Part I of Form S-8 (Items 1 and 2) will be sent or
given to Plan participants as specified by Rule 428(b)(1) under the Securities
Act of 1933.

                                     PART II

               INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

ITEM 3.  INCORPORATION OF DOCUMENTS BY REFERENCE.

     The following documents filed by Electronic Tele-Communications, Inc. (the
"Registrant")(Commission File No. 0-13981) with the Securities and Exchange
Commission (the "Commission") pursuant to Section 13 of the Securities Exchange
of 1934 (the "1934 Act") are incorporated herein by reference:

         (a)    the Registrant's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal
                year ended December 31, 1999;

         (b)    the Registrant's Quarterly Reports for the quarterly periods
                ended March 31, 1999, June 30, 1999, and September 30, 1999;
                and

         (c)    the description of the Registrant's Class A Common Stock
                contained in its Registration Statement on Form S-8 filed on
                August 25, 1989, and any amendments or reports filed for the
                purpose of updating such description.

     All documents subsequently filed by the Registrant pursuant to Sections
13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the 1934 Act, prior to the filing of a
post-effective amendment which indicates that all securities offered hereby have
been sold or which deregisters all securities then remaining unsold, shall be
deemed to be incorporated by reference herein and to be a part hereof from the
date of the filing of such documents.

     Any statement contained in a document incorporated or deemed to be
incorporated by reference herein shall be deemed to be modified or superseded
for purposes hereof 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 statement so
modified or superseded shall not be deemed, except as so modified or superseded,
to constitute a part hereof.

ITEM 4.  DESCRIPTION OF SECURITIES.

         Not applicable.  See Item 3(c) above.

ITEM 5.  INTERESTS OF NAMED EXPERTS AND COUNSEL.

     The legality of the sale of the securities registered hereunder will be
passed on for the Registrant by Quarles & Brady LLP, the Registrant's legal
counsel. Peter J. Lettenberger, a Director of the Registrant, is a partner of
Quarles & Brady LLP.
4

ITEM 6.  INDEMNIFICATION OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS.

     The Registrant is incorporated under the Wisconsin Business Corporation Law
("WBCL").

     Under Section 180.0851(1) of the WBCL, the Registrant is required to
indemnify a director or officer, to the extent such person is successful on the
merits or otherwise in the defense of a proceeding, for all reasonable expenses
incurred in the proceeding if such person was a party because he or she was a
director or officer of the Registrant. In all other cases, the Registrant is
required by Section 180.0851(2) of the WBCL to indemnify a director or officer
against liability incurred in a proceeding to which such person was a party
because he or she was an officer or director of the Registrant, unless it is
determined that he or she breached or failed to perform a duty owed to the
Registrant and the breach or failure to perform constitutes:

-                 a willful failure to deal fairly with the Registrant or its
         shareholders in connection with a matter in which the director or
         officer has a material conflict of interest;

-                 a violation of criminal law, unless the director or officer
         had reasonable cause to believe his or her conduct was lawful or no
         reasonable cause to believe his or her conduct was unlawful;

-                 a transaction from which the director or officer derived an
         improper personal profit; or

-                 willful misconduct.

Section 180.0858 of the WBCL provides that, subject to certain limitations, the
mandatory indemnification provisions do not preclude any additional right to
indemnification or allowance of expenses that a director or officer may have
under the Registrant's Articles of Incorporation, Bylaws, any written agreement
between the director or officer and the Registrant or a resolution of the Board
of Directors or shareholders.

     Section 180.0859 of the WBCL provides that it is the public policy of the
State of Wisconsin to require or permit indemnification, allowance of expenses
and insurance to the extent required or permitted under Sections 180.0850 to
180.0858 of the WBCL for any liability incurred in connection with a proceeding
involving a federal or state statute, rule or regulation regulating the offer,
sale or purchase of securities.

     Section 180.0828 of the WBCL provides that, with certain exceptions, a
director is not liable to a corporation, its shareholders, or any person
asserting rights on behalf of the corporation or its shareholders, for damages,
settlements, fees, fines, penalties or other monetary liabilities arising from a
breach of, or failure to perform, any duty resulting solely from his or her
status as a director, unless the person asserting liability proves that the
breach or failure to perform constitutes any of the four exceptions to mandatory
indemnification under Section 180.0851(2) referred to above.

     Article IX of the Registrant's Bylaws generally provides that the Company
shall indemnify any officer or director acting in such capacity if the person
acted in good faith and in a manner he reasonably believed to be in or not
opposed to the best interests of the corporation and, with respect to any
criminal action or proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe his conduct
was unlawful.

     Directors and officers of the Registrant are covered by directors' and
officers' liability insurance under which they are insured (subject to certain
exceptions and limitations specified in the policy) against expenses and
liabilities arising out of proceedings to which they are parties by reason of
being of having been directors or officers.

     Under Section 180.0833 of the WBCL, directors of the Registrant against
whom claims are asserted with respect to the declaration of an improper dividend
or distribution to shareholders or certain other improper acts which they
approved are entitled to contribution from other directors who approved such
actions and from shareholders who knowingly accepted an improper dividend or
distribution, as provided therein.
5

ITEM 7.  EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION CLAIMED.

         Not applicable.

ITEM 8.  EXHIBITS.

     See the Exhibit Index following the Signatures page in this Registration
Statement, which Exhibit Index is incorporated herein by reference.

ITEM 9.  UNDERTAKINGS.

         (a)    The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes:

                (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;

                           (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, represent a fundamental change in the information set forth in the
Registration Statement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any increase or decrease
in volume of securities offered (if the total dollar value of securities offered
would not exceed that which was registered) and any deviation from the low or
high end of the estimated maximum offering range may be reflected in the form of
prospectus filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) if, in the
aggregate, the changes in volume and price represent no more than a 20% change
in the maximum aggregate offering price set forth in the "Calculation of
Registration Fee" table in the effective 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) of
this section do not apply if the Registration Statement is on Form S-3, Form S-8
or Form F-3, and the information required to be included in a post-effective
amendment by those paragraphs is contained in periodic reports filed with or
furnished to the Commission by the Registrant pursuant to Section 13 or Section
15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that are incorporated by reference
in the Registration Statement.

                  (2) That, for the purpose of determining any liability under
the Securities Act of 1933, 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) 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 of 1933, each filing of the
Registrant's annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (and, where applicable, each filing of an
employee benefit plan's annual report pursuant to Section 15(d) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934) 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) Reference is made to the indemnification provisions described in
Item 6 of this Registration Statement.

         Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities
Act of 1933 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 public policy as expressed in the Act
and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for
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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 Act and will
be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.
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                                   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, hereunto duly
authorized, in the City of Waukesha, State of Wisconsin, on March 24 , 2000.

                                           ELECTRONIC TELE-COMMUNICATIONS, INC.

                                       By:  /s/ Dean W. Danner
                                          -------------------------------------
                                                                 Dean W. Danner
                                          President and Chief Executive Officer

                                POWER OF ATTORNEY

     KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears
below constitutes and appoints Dean W. Danner and Jeffrey M. Nigl, or either of
them, his true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of
substitution and resubstitution, for him and in his name, place and stead, in
any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments (including post-effective
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, and any other regulatory authority, granting
unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, 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
attorneys-in-fact and agents or any of them, or their 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 by the following persons in the
capacities and on the dates indicated.
Signature                                   Title                                                  Date
---------                                   -----                                                  ----
/s/ Dean W. Danner                         President, Chief Executive Officer and Director        March 24, 2000
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Dean W. Danner                              (Principal Executive Officer)

 /s/ Jeffrey M. Nigl                        Vice President, Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer  March 24, 2000
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Jeffrey M. Nigl                             (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)

 /s/ Bonita M. Danner                       Vice President Engineering and Director                March 24, 2000
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Bonita M. Danner
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/s/ Hazel Danner                           Secretary and Director                                 March 24, 2000
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Hazel Danner

 /s/ George W. Danner                       Director                                               March 24, 2000
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George W. Danner

                                            Director                                                       , 2000
-----------------------------------                                                                --------
Joanne B. Huelsman

                                            Director                                                       , 2000
-----------------------------------                                                                --------
A. William Huelsman

 /s/ Peter J. Lettenberger                  Director                                               March 24, 2000
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Peter J. Lettenberger

                                            Director                                                       , 2000
-----------------------------------                                                                --------
Richard A. Gabriel
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                      ELECTRONIC TELE-COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
                               (THE "REGISTRANT")
                          (COMMISSION FILE NO. 0-13981)

                                  EXHIBIT INDEX
                                       TO
                         FORM S-8 REGISTRATION STATEMENT
Exhibit                                                             Incorporated Herein              Filed
   Number                        Description                             By Reference To               Herewith
   ------                        -----------                             ---------------               --------
4.1            Restated Articles of Incorporation of the        Restated Articles of
               Registrant                                       Incorporation filed as Exhibit
                                                                3.1 to Form S-1 (No. 2-99175)
                                                                filed on July 24, 1985 ("Form S-1")

4.2            Bylaws of the Registrant                                                                   X
5              Opinion of Quarles & Brady LLP                                                             X
23.1           Consent of Independent Accountants                                                         X
23.2           Consent of Quarles & Brady LLP                                                      Contained in
                                                                                                   opinion filed
                                                                                                   as Exhibit 5

24             Powers of Attorney                                                                  Signatures page
                                                                                                   to this
                                                                                                   Registration
                                                                                                   Statement

99             Electronic Tele-Communications, Inc. 1999                                                  X
               Nonqualified Stock Option Plan
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