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ATL Communications Appoints Mark Bilton-Smith as Chief Executive Officer
ATL Communications, a thought leader in carrier-neutral telecommunication software as a service (Saas) solutions, today announced it has appointed Mark Bilton-Smith, president of ATL Communications, to the chief executive officer of the company. The appointment strengthens ATL Communications’ leadership and strategy for giving telecommunication service providers and enterprise businesses one simplified solution for local number […]
Don’t Wait For Disaster To Strike – Disaster Recovery & Routing Optimization
Don’t Wait For Disaster To Strike – Disaster Recovery & Routing Optimization ATL Communications Community, No matter how prepared or how good we are, the simple fact is, outages will happen. In Q4 of 2017, a major carrier experienced a nationwide outage, leaving many of their clients with comprised phone lines. Amid the outage, clients who […]
Disaster Recovery- How to prepare for Carrier Outages
Disaster Recovery- How to prepare for Carrier Outages Time is money – and any businesses that face downtime lose a lot more than just money. Carrier outages are more common than you think – in October 2016, all major phone carriers on the east coast of the United States faced an outage, which lasted for almost […]
WHAT ARE THE GENERAL RESPONSIBILITIES OF A RESPORG?
The RespOrg is responsible to its Customer for management of the SMS/800 record. This may in- clude, but is not limited to, coordination with Toll-Free Service Providers and with the Help Desk. The following general responsibilities are necessary for a…
WHAT IS A RESPONSIBLE ORGANIZATION (RESPORG)?
A Responsible Organization (RespOrg) is the entity authorized by the toll-free subscriber to assume the duty of managing and administering the associated records in the 800 Service Management System (SMS/800).In short, a RespOrg’s responsibilities …
WHAT TO DO IN THE EVENT OF A CARRIER OUTAGE
Don’t panic! You’ve prepared for this. It’s time to put your pre- determined plan into action.A good disaster recovery plan is only as strong as its design. When that design is well thought out and methodically tested, mitigating disasters becomes …
PORT YOUR TOLL-FREE NUMBERS TO YOUR NEW RESPORG
This is a pretty straightforward process that RespOrgs can perform. Simply stated, this is when all numbers under a business’s control are transferred from their previous ID to their new unique RespOrg ID. A business cannot add multiple carriers unless…
SET UP ADDITIONAL CARRIER / NETWORKS
During carrier outages, the only option to get your numbers working again is to use an alternate carrier. It’s not in a carrier’s best interest to help you move your numbers away, as this is a revenue source for carriers, especially when most of their …
When Was Toll-Free Disaster Recovery Introduced – MAY 1, 1993
The ability to port toll-free numbers was first discussed in 1985 when the FCC order, Docket 89-10, mandated the creation of a national toll-free database. It took years to design and implement the national toll-free database along with toll-free numbe…
WHAT IS TOLL-FREE DISASTER RECOVERY?
What would happen to your business if your toll-free service simply stopped working one day? Network outages, degradation in customer support and even having your service turned off com- pletely are all realities that must be confronted. Carrier divers…
ATL Communications Announces Launch of New Website — focused on providing enterprise customers with simplified disaster recovery and transformational enterprise carrier-neutral RespOrg ID solutions.
Bend, Oregon., June 14, 2022 — ATL COMMUNICATIONS, The Leading SaaS based provider of trusted carrier-neutral toll-free number management, disaster recovery and unique RespOrg ID solutions to carriers, operators, and enterprise businesses, is proud to…
Porting.com Simplifies the Telecom Industry with the Expansion of its PortControl API driven SaaS Solution
Peerless Network Brings Premier Local Number Porting Functionality to Customers with Adoption of Porting.com’s PortControl Technology BEND, OR – March 15, 2022 – Porting.com, a subsidiary of ATL Communications, which simplifies the telecom indu…
TOLL-FREE NUMBER & DISASTER RECOVERY HISTORY
BELL SYSTEM / NANP (1876 – 1940):From its beginnings in 1876 and all through the initial segment of the twentieth century, the Bell System developed from basically local or regional telephone frameworks. These frameworks exten by developing the…
UNDERSTANDING THE TELEPHONE NUMBER
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the North American Numbering Plan Administration (NANPA) implemented calling procedures that required all long-distance calls within an area code to be prefixed with the area code, in order to make it possible to assi…
WHAT TO DO IN THE EVENT OF A CARRIER OUTAGE?
Don’t panic! You’ve prepared for this. It’s time to put your predetermined plan into action.A good disaster recovery plan is only as strong as its design. When that design is well thought outand methodically tested, mitigating disasters becomes the…