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American Telecom Services Receives 2006 Product of the Year
Award from Communications Solutions
X10001P Cordless Internet Phone with Lingo Service
Honored for Outstanding Innovation
CITY OF INDUSTRY, Calif., May 8, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- American Telecom
Services, Inc. (Amex: TES - News), a leader in the "Convergence of Voice
Communications", today announced that Technology Marketing Corporation's (TMC)
Communications Solutions (www.tmcnet.com/comsol) has named ATS' X10001P
Telephone System with Lingo service as a recipient of a 2006 Product of the Year
Award.
Adam Somer, Co-President of American Telecom Services commented, "We are
delighted to have received this award and thankful that a prestigious industry
publication like TMC Communications Solutions has recognized this innovative
product as a leader in the space. American Telecom Services is dedicated to
outstanding innovation, both in terms of state-of-the-art phones and unique
services for customers, all designed to save mainstream consumers money. We
thank TMC for this honor and look forward to building off this achievement in
2007 and beyond."
"American Telecom Services has been recognized with a 2006 Product of the Year
Award for their excellence in technological advancement and application
refinement," said Rich Tehrani, TMC President and Group Editor-in-Chief of
Communications Solutions, "American Telecom Services has proven they are
committed to quality and excellence in solutions that benefit the customer
experience as well as ROI for the companies that use them. I am pleased to honor
their hard work and accomplishments and look forward to more innovative
solutions from them in the future."
The seventh annual Communications Solutions Product of the Year Award recognizes
the vision, leadership and attention to detail that are the hallmarks of the
prestigious award. The most innovative products and services brought to market
in 2006 have been selected as recipients of this year's Communications Solutions
Product of the Year Award for their groundbreaking achievement.
The 2006 Product of the Year Award winners can be found on the Communications
Solutions Web site.
The X10001P is a Digital Clear Expandable Cordless Internet Phone with Lingo
service which connects directly into the user's broadband modem and has an
output for the user's PC, eliminating the need for an external router and
confusing wiring. The X10001P is expandable to a total of four cordless
handsets; each communicating with the master base. The extensions come bundled
with their own charger which can be placed in any room with a power outlet. The
X10001P uses DECT 6.0, ensuring that the connection between the handset and the
base is interference free (from common household items such as other phones,
Wi-Fi or microwave ovens). With a range of more than 900 feet, support for
analog phones and fax machines and a wide range of state-of-the-art features,
the X10001P provides consumers with exceptional value and the ability to save
hundreds of dollars a year on their phone service.
About TMC
Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) publishes four print publications:
Customer Inter@ction Solutions, INTERNET TELEPHONY Magazine,
http://www.tmcnet.com/sipIMS Magazine and Unified Communications (launching
summer 2007). TMCnet, TMC's Web site, is the leading source of news and articles
for the communications and technology industries. Ranked in the top 0.003
percent of sites in the world by alexa.com*, TMCnet serves nearly two million
unique visitors each month, according to WebTrends. TMC is
also the first publisher to test new products in its own on-site laboratories,
TMC Labs. In addition, TMC produces INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO,
Communications Developer Conference, IMS Expo and Call Center 2.0 Conference.
TMCnet.com publishes more than 15 topical online newsletters. (*alexa.com is an
amazon.com company that ranks Web sites by their traffic levels. Neither
alexa.com nor amazon.com is affiliated with TMCnet.)
For more information about TMC, visit www.tmcnet.com.
About American Telecom Services
American Telecom Services gives consumers "Good Reasons to Pick up the Phone."
The company offers the only home phones that are bundled with Pay N' Talk
prepaid residential long-distance services powered by IDT Telecom (patent
pending) and is the only provider of DigitalClear(TM) Internet phones that
include an adapter and router built right into the base of the phones
(patent-pending); Just "Plug In & Save!" The DigitalClear product line offers
consumers the opportunity to save up to $500 on their phone services using
SunRocket or Lingo Internet phone service. For consumers who do not presently
have high speed service at home, all DigitalClear products also include a high
speed Internet offer from Broadband National, creating a "One Box Solution" to
be sold at retail. The company's products are available nationally at more than
15,000 retail locations. More company and product information is available at
www.atsphone.com
For American Telecom Services:
Adam Somer
Co-President
678-636-4384
adam.somer@atsphone.com
Brett Maas, Principal (Investor Relations)
Hayden Communications
646-536-7331
brett@haydenir.com
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