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The Alliance for Telecommunication Industry Solutions (ATIS) and...

The Alliance for Telecommunication Industry Solutions (ATIS) and the National Exchange Carrier Association’s (NECA) Joint National Call Testing Project will give interexchange carriers, wireless carriers and VoIP providers “the opportunity to identify call completion issues on calls destined to areas…

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served by volunteer local exchange carriers,” the two groups said Friday. The project will also allow carriers and providers to capture data on call failures and improve their internal performance, as well as facilitate trouble resolution efforts between carriers, ATIS and NECA said. The groups will use data they collect to assist industry efforts to address call completion issues, including member training and revisions to the ATIS Next Generation Interoperability Forum’s Intercarrier Call Completion/Call Termination Handbook (http://bit.ly/1c1tDpR).