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AT&T Signs Three-Year Contract with Collect America

By Anil Sharma, TMCnet Contributor

AT&T has signed a three-year contract with Collect America, a company in the debt purchasing and asset recovery management industry, to become a primary networking services provider.

 

AT&T (News - Alert) services are intended to facilitate greater business efficiencies for Collect America and support its business growth.

 

Officials said that AT&T will provide Virtual Private Network, or VPN, service for Collect America's 35 domestic locations and will facilitate the ability of remote locations, franchises and law offices to access necessary applications to perform important business tasks.

 

Moreover, officials said that AT&T will provide Enterprise Hosting services for Collect America's proprietary business applications, at a secondary AT&T Internet Data Center, giving Collect America robust business continuity and disaster recovery plan capabilities.

"AT&T is enabling our industry-leading growth by bringing new efficiencies to our day-to-day operations," said Glenn Thompson, chief information officer of Collect America, in a statement.

 

Thompson said that the company is committed to leading edge technologies and trust world-class partners like AT&T in their ability to deliver a consistent, reliable and secure network experience for the company to continue to change the industry.

 

"Collect America has created a remarkable organization built on innovation and customer service," said Mike Henry, sales center vice president for AT&T.

 

Henry said that AT&T looks forward to helping Collect America continue its tradition of leadership by successfully deploying world-class technology to constantly improve its business operations.

 

Collect America also will have around-the-clock access to real-time information about the performance of its networking and hosting services and a direct connection to electronic billing and ordering systems through the AT&T BusinessDirect portal.

TMCnet in August reported that Utah Transit Authority reportedly has awarded AT&T a contract to provide a Wireless Wide Area Network, or WWAN.

 

 The AT&T solution is expected to facilitate real-time fare collection, which reduces passenger boarding times.

 

AT&T officials said that the company’s WWAN, powered by AT&T's 3G wireless network, has allowed UTA to implement an electronic fare collection method, which reduces passenger boarding times and simplifies fare payment.

 

 The UTA will implement an Automated Vehicle Location system providing UTA buses the ability to regularly communicate their position to a central dispatch location and allowing passengers to access real-time information about UTA services.

 

The AVL system will transmit the UTA data using the AT&T 3G wireless network and GPS.

 

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Anil Sharma is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Anil’s articles, please visit his columnist page.

Edited by Tim Gray