Amtelco
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| Type | Privately Held |
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| Founded | Wisconsin |
| Headquarters | Wisconsin |
| Website | www.amtelco.com |
Amtelco is a manufacturer of telecommunications equipment and telephone answering service and call center systems, founded in 1976.
[edit] History
Amtelco was founded in 1976 by Bill Curtin in the wake of the 1968 Federal Communications Commission ruling in the Carterphone case, which struck down existing tariffs prohibiting connection to the public telephone network of equipment not supplied by telephone operating companies.
Following the release of its TAS (Telephone Answering Service) Video system, Amtelco soon became a common name in the Telecommunications Service Industry, its product being the first computerized telephone switching system in the marketplace. The TAS system soon was succeeded by the EVE system; more powerful and taking advantage of early-model PC's and dumb terminals. By the late 1980s, AMTELCO's EVE (Electronic Video Exchange) system grew to become the most widely used business telephone answering equipment in the industry.
Today, Infinity has replaced EVE as the flagship Telephone switching system.
