![]() ![]() TCG probably positions itself as a "telecommunications consultant", "marketing company" or "sales agency". These are the clients who pay them for results. TCG has contracted with businesses, collection agencies and so forth. Don't expect that you'll be dropped from their list by pressing "1" if you return the call, though. You might tell them you'll report them to the FCC or Better Business Bureau. You might try pressing "0" or another extension to leave a message for someone operating the program. Telemarketers will not tell called parties who they are, who they are contracted to, or the names of TCG clients. The telemarketer is probably working from home and is paid based on the information collected, appointments made or monetary collections. If a called party responds, maybe by pressing "1", they are connected to an independent contractor, who serves as someone connected to the service or product offered. There is probably a surplus of used call generation equipment these days. Without regard to protected call lists - probably using a system that generates calls in a given area, or from a submitted list - TCG uses a computerized telemarketing system that generates recorded messages. I'd guess the numbers from (978)-570-2000 to 2400 are in use in this operation. And the addresses and phone numbers are many and varied. It is probably not named Teleport Communications Group, but lets call it "TCG" anyway. ![]() In my opinion, The operation hiding behind Teleport Communications Group is a telemarketing operation. Teleport Communications Group is not a communications carrier, in my opinion. Teleport Communications Group is not the same entity as Teleport Communications Group, Inc., a telecommunications carrier absorbed by AT&T, as you state, in 1998. Its largest investors were cable TV companies TCI, Comcast and Cox Communications. At that time the publicly traded TCG (NASDAQ, TCGI) served 65 markets and generated $800 million in revenue. In 1998, TCG was acquired by AT&T for $12 billion. This contributed to the passage of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 which eased the entrance of new CLECs by requiring the incumbent telephone companies, the largest being legacies of AT&T, to interconnect with the new entrants. The success of TCG and other CLECs demonstrated that competition was possible in the local telephone market. First formed in 1985, it competed with the existing telephone companies to provide dial tone and related services in the largest U.S. Teleport Communications Group (TCG) was the first Competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC) in the U.S. The Wikipedia article for TCG is intriguing, and makes me wonder if they be merely a middleman or false front here: ![]() (I noticed the Needham and Marlboro sites both had the same number with minor variations of the address.) I cross-referenced it using Google Earth, and found this contact info - they have several sites in MA: A little more about Teleport Communications. ![]()
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