- Neutral Tandem, Inc. has built the nation's first independent tandem network for competitive carriers—
a network that exchanges traffic for over 100 major wireless, wireline, cable and broadband service providers
- Neutral Tandem provides customers with innovative and cost-effective solutions to facilitate the
interchange of traffic for 500 million telephone number end points
- Based in Chicago, Neutral Tandem serves 155 markets in 189 LATAs across the U.S., including Atlanta,
Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Seattle, Miami, New York City and Washington D.C.
- Neutral Tandem was founded in 2003 by seasoned industry executives with proven track records
of building high-growth companies
- Neutral Tandem serves eight of the top ten wireless carriers in the U.S., who provide service to over
95 percent of the total wireless subscribers in the nation
- Neutral Tandem’s customers include wireless, cable and broadband service providers, which helps position
the company for continued growth as a greater percentage of calls originate and terminate between these
competitive carriers
- Because Neutral Tandem is a neutral service provider, the focus is on enabling customer growth,
not constraining it
- Neutral Tandem raised over $90M in its IPO on 11-02-07 and trades on the NASDAQ under symbol,
"TNDM"
- Neutral Tandem offers innovative call overflow options to alleviate tandem congestion and busy signals,
optimizing call throughput
- Neutral Tandem provides critical network diversity for the nation’s telecommunications infrastructure,
by enhancing the existing PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network) with its redundant network
- Neutral Tandem does not rely on collocation in incumbent LEC facilities and nearly exclusively
employs
the services of competitive fiber carriers versus LEC transport, with the combined
effect of bypassing
(in lieu of "duplicating") incumbent LEC facilities
