McFarland, WI - April 2005 - AMTELCO is celebrating 30 years of innovation this year. Bill Curtin founded AMTELCO in 1975. AMTELCO has a rich tradition of providing innovative solutions and superior service. AMTELCO’s founder, Bill Curtin, embodied the company’s spirit of innovation. He invented the Telesignal, the first concentrator/identifier, in 1951. The Telesignal identified which customer’s phone was ringing and reduced the number of lines between the telephone company and the TAS, cutting line costs by over 90 percent. Bill Curtin received a U.S. patent in 1954, and a Canadian patent in 1956. This was the first of many inventions that offered significant enhancements for the TAS industry. In 1991 Bill Curtin was inducted into the ATSI National Hall of Fame.

Today, AMTELCO equipment is in operation in all 50 of the United States and in more than 20 other countries. Millions of telephone calls a day are processed by AMTELCO systems throughout the world.

AMTELCO has 3 divisions:

• The Call Center Innovations Division is a leading provider of telemessaging equipment and systems to the TAS and call center industry.
• The 1Call Division specializes in offering communication solutions for healthcare and higher education facilities. 1Call features a complete line of intelligent console solutions specifically designed to streamline communications and make efficient use of resources including the new R.E.D. Alert (Response to Emergency Deployment).
• The AMTELCO XDS Technologies Division designs, manufactures and markets several lines of PC, PCI, and CompactPCI switching boards to telecommunications development and operating companies worldwide.

For more information on AMTELCO’s 30 year history contact AMTELCO at (800)356-9148 or send an e-mail to info@amtelco.com.