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Alabama Mississippi Telecommunications Association
(AMTA)
Offices: Montgomery, Alabama
The Alabama-Mississippi Telecommunications
Association was established by its core
members to provide a vehicle through which
their interests could be represented in
legislative, regulatory and public arenas.
In addition, the Association provides a
forum within which the members can share
and exchange information. |
Alaska Telecom Association (ATA)
Offices: Anchorage, Alaska
Founded in 1949, the Alaska Telephone Association
(ATA) sets out in the first paragraph of
its Bylaws its goal: "maintaining of high
grade telecommunications services to the
public." This in a state encompassing 591,004
square miles—one fifth the area of the "lower
48." Comprised of 22 regular members certificated
by the Alaska Public Utilities Commission
and more than 100 associate members, the
ATA is a trade association representing
the interests of the incumbent local exchange
telephone industry in the state. |
Alliance for Telecommunications Industry
Solutions (ATIS)
Offices: Washington, DC
ATIS is a United States based body that
is committed to rapidly developing and promoting
technical and operations standards for the
communications and related information technologies
industry worldwide using a pragmatic, flexible
and open approach. ATIS prioritizes the
industry’s most pressing, technical and
operational issues, and creates interoperable,
implementable, end to end solutions—standards
when the industry needs them and where they
need them. |
American Alliance of Service Providers (AASP)
Offices: Triangle, Virginia
The American Alliance of Service Providers
is an organization that was set up to join
together ISPs in a unified front. AASP also
has other Internet related companies offering
Web Design and Web Hosting as members. They,
as a small ISP watching the events in the
ISP industry, had concerns about the future
of the small to medium sized ISPs. They
decided that to get ISPs better pricing
and other benefits that a group effort would
be needed, and so AASP was born. AASP has
grown to over 800 ISPs. |
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Broadband Forum
Offices: Freemont, California
The Broadband Forum is the central organization
driving broadband wireline solutions and
empowering converged packet networks worldwide
to better meet the needs of vendors, service
providers and their customers. They develop
multi-service broadband packet networking
specifications addressing interoperability,
architecture and management. Their work
enables home, business and converged broadband
services, encompassing customer, access
and backbone networks. |
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