For Immediate Release
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ATIS-sponsored Industry Numbering Committee Elects 2002 Leadership

December 5, 2001, Washington, D.C. - The ATIS-sponsored Industry Numbering Committee (INC) - an open forum that resolves telecom numbering resource, allocation, assignment and planning issues for the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) area - recently announced its leadership election results.

Participating member companies of INC selected David Bench of Nortel Networks as INC Moderator, and Rose Travers of the United States Telecom Association (USTA) as Assistant Moderator. Bench served as the Assistant Moderator in 2001 and will succeed the out-going Moderator, Norman Epstein of Verizon.

Bench is employed in the Strategic Standards Group of Nortel Networks as a Senior Advisor - Industry Forums. He represents Nortel in a number of ATIS-sponsored committees and forums, as well as the North American Numbering Council (NANC),
a Federal Communications Commission advisory body. Bench holds a First Class Certification in Telephone Engineering by the National Association of Radio and Telecommunications Engineers (NARTE) with an endorsement in Traffic Engineering.

Travers is currently USTA Staff Director responsible for member company interests on numbering matters at the Federal level. She has served in various leadership positions within the INC structure and is the USTA alternate member on the NANC. She previously served in various positions dealing with area code relief, central office code allocations, and interconnection agreements with Winstar Communications, Lockheed Martin, and Bell Atlantic.

Terms for the newly elected Moderators began on November 29, 2001.

About ATIS

The Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS) is a member company organization that is the leader for standards and operating procedures for the telecommunications industry. More than 1,500 experts from over 400 telecommunications companies participate in ATIS' 19 committees, forums, and Incubator Solutions programs, where work focus includes network interconnection standards, number portability, improved data transmission, wireless communications, Internet telephony, toll-free access, and order and billing issues. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) frequently refers operations issues to ATIS committees for recommended solutions. Members of ATIS and committee participants include, but are not limited to, telecommunications service providers, manufacturers, software developers, resellers, enhanced service providers, and providers of operations support. For more information, visit the ATIS web site www.atis.org.

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