ALTS: Bringing Competition to Local Telecom

Passage of the Telecommunications Act cracked the local telecom market wide open, creating the policy framework for the first competitive telecommunications services in the U.S. since 1913 – and leading to formation of the first national trade organization representing the young competitive industry: The Association for Local Telecommunications Services (ALTS). ALTS’ mission: to provide regulatory air cover for its members by fighting back against the incumbent monopolies’ efforts to undermine the Telecom Act.

ALTS hired Crawford to take its cause nationwide.

During the five years we worked with ALTS, Crawford secured repeated coverage in the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, USA Today, Business Week, Forbes, Fortune, all the wire services – Bloomberg, AP, Dow Jones – the Los Angeles Times, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, San Jose Mercury News, Washington Times, US News & World Report, Investors Business Daily, Smart Money, National Journal, Legal Times, CNN, CNBC, MSNBC, Bloomberg TV, National Public Radio, and all the key telecom trades – Communications Daily, Telecommunications Reports, Telephony, tele.com, Inter@ctive Week, Data Communications, Information Week, InfoWorld, Network World, Intelligent Network News, Xchange and PHONE+.

Thanks to the pioneering work of ALTS, competition today is as strong as ever. The competitive local telecom marketplace features the names of large, successful enterprises such as XO Communications and AboveNet. Look at their management teams and you’ll find the names of many of the same leaders who were on hand when the industry debuted. Crawford is proud to have helped build the platform for this new generation of competitive telecom giants – and to continue supporting competition today.