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Dear Telecom Professional, Divestiture took place on January 1, 1984 in the USA and the Bell System was dead. In its place was a new AT&T and seven regional Bell operating companies (collectively, the RBOCs.) Most see this as the birth of global competitive telecoms. Mr Barrington Roy Schiller was invited to sit on the board and International Resale Committee of the TRA, Telecom reseller's Association in Washington USA, the trade association which was formed to represent the new breed of new telecos which were being born in this new deregulated environment of competitive telecoms. A decade later Europe followed so in 1996 Barrington Roy Schiller brought Senior Executives in the International Telecom World together to form this Association, which was based upon the work of the TRA . The remit was to promote competitive Telecommunications in Europe via resale in accordance with the roll out of the WTO accord. The ITRE was therefore formed as a non-government organisation as the first European Association for National and International Carriers , PTTs and Resellers to lobby and better understand the deregulated environment and be informed of the latest legislation and services available to them. The ITRE also offered a one-stop-shop to companies both in and outside of Europe as a forum to allow them to exchange information. The ITRE evolved with time and soon had members which could offer legal, regulatory and accounting services, staff recruitment, site finding, research, marketing, financing, purchasing, advice on all telecom matters, consultancy, grants, acquisitions and mergers. Switching, switch sales, diallers, intelligence reports, bandwidth, call centre management, billing and a host of other products and services. As such the
beginning of 2003 saw the roll out of the WTO accord all but completed and
millions of new Telecom staff had joined the industry with each being trained by
those who had come before so we of the ITRE changed the emphasis from
corporate assistance to making our prime goal that of making the industry "A
PROFESSION"* and to offer "Professional Personal
Membership" to bona fide Executives in Telecom and allied Telecom
(publishers, conference organisers, Lawyers etc) Industries and giving them true
Professional status and use the letters Memb. ITRE or Asso. ITRE after their name to
add to their professional status.
Barry Schiller
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