diff --git a/link.module b/link.module
index df8d635..d071f23 100644
--- a/link.module
+++ b/link.module
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ define('LINK_EXTERNAL', 'external');
 define('LINK_INTERNAL', 'internal');
 define('LINK_FRONT', 'front');
 define('LINK_EMAIL', 'email');
+define('LINK_TEL', 'tel');
 define('LINK_NEWS', 'news');
 define('LINK_FILE', 'file');
 define('LINK_TARGET_DEFAULT', 'default');
@@ -584,6 +585,9 @@ function _link_sanitize(&$item, $delta, &$field, $instance, &$entity) {
   if ($type == LINK_EMAIL) {
     $display_url = str_replace('mailto:', '', $url);
   }
+  elseif ($type == LINK_TEL) {
+    $display_url = str_replace('tel:', '', $url);
+  }
   else {
     $display_url = url($url_parts['url'],
       array(
@@ -1548,6 +1552,7 @@ function link_url_type($text) {
     'ssh',
     'sftp',
     'webcal',
+    'tel',
   ));
   $link_domains = _link_domains();
 
@@ -1581,6 +1586,7 @@ function link_url_type($text) {
 
   $user = '[a-zA-Z0-9' . $link_ichars . '_\-\.\+\^!#\$%&*+\/\=\?\`\|\{\}~\'\[\]]+';
   $email_pattern = '/^mailto:' . $user . '@' . '(?:' . $domain . '|' . $ipv4 . '|' . $ipv6 . '|localhost)' . $query . '?$/';
+  $tel_pattern = '/^tel:(?:\+[1-9]\d{1,14}|\d{2,15})$/';
 
   $file_pattern = "/^(?:file:\/\/)" . "(?:\/?[a-z0-9" . $link_ichars . "_\-\.\\\~+%=&,$'#!():;*@\[\]]*)*" . '$/i';
 
@@ -1590,6 +1596,19 @@ function link_url_type($text) {
   if (in_array('mailto', $allowed_protocols) && preg_match($email_pattern, $text)) {
     return LINK_EMAIL;
   }
+  if (in_array('tel', $allowed_protocols) && strpos($text, 'tel:') === 0) {
+    if (preg_match($tel_pattern, $text)) {
+      // Based on our tel pattern this is a 'valid' phone number so return tel
+      // type.
+      return LINK_TEL;
+    }
+    else {
+      // Based on our tel pattern this is using the tel protocol, but is not a
+      // 'valid' phone number. If we don't return false here $text will match
+      // LINK_EXTERNAL which is incorrect.
+      return FALSE;
+    }
+  }
   if (in_array('news', $allowed_protocols) && preg_match($news_pattern, $text)) {
     return LINK_NEWS;
   }
diff --git a/tests/link.validate.test b/tests/link.validate.test
index 9b87d8c..6338840 100644
--- a/tests/link.validate.test
+++ b/tests/link.validate.test
@@ -544,6 +544,9 @@ class LinkValidateUrlLight extends DrupalWebTestCase {
       case LINK_EMAIL:
         return "Email";
 
+      case LINK_TEL:
+        return "Telephone";
+
       case LINK_NEWS:
         return "Newsgroup";
 
@@ -585,6 +588,37 @@ class LinkValidateUrlLight extends DrupalWebTestCase {
     $this->assertEqual(FALSE, $valid, 'Make sure just a bad address is correctly failed');
   }
 
+  function testValidateTelLinks() {
+    $links = array(
+      'tel:01',
+      'tel:123456789012345',
+      'tel:+123456789012345',
+    );
+    foreach ($links as $link) {
+      $type = link_url_type($link);
+      $this->assertEqual(LINK_TEL, $type, 'Test ' . $link . ' is a tel link.');
+      $valid = link_validate_url($link);
+      $this->assertTrue($valid, 'Test ' . $link . ' is valid tel link.');
+    }
+  }
+
+  function testValidateTelLinksBad() {
+    $links = array(
+      'tel:0',
+      'tel:1234567890123456',
+      'tel:+1',
+      'tel:+0123456789',
+      'tel:+1234567890123456',
+      ':12345678',
+    );
+    foreach ($links as $link) {
+      $type = link_url_type($link);
+      $this->assertFalse($type, 'Test ' . $link . ' is not a tel link.');
+      $valid = link_validate_url($link);
+      $this->assertFalse($valid, 'Test ' . $link . ' is not a valid tel link.');
+    }
+  }
+
   /**
    * Validate Newsgroup Link.
    */