Stock Guru Profile ATSI Communications, Inc. (ATSX – OTCBB)
ATSX processed a record volume of 105 million VoIP minutes of use (”MOU”) during the quarter. This is a fraction of the approximately 72 billion voice MOUs processed in the fourth quarter of 2006 on a worldwide basis.
ATSI has had tremendous success in marketing Voice IP communication to the Hispanic market in South Texas for contact with friends and family located in Mexico. Marketing Voice IP for business communications between companies that operate in both the United States has been an area of strong growth for Voice IP as well. The growth in the Voice IP market has been associated with the increasing demand for telecommunications services throughout Latin America and significant growth in the Mexican Internet access market.
The Mexican Internet access market generated total revenues of $1.5 billion in 2005, an increase of 28.1% on 2004, representing a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 31.2% for the five-year period spanning 2001-2005. The number of Internet users in Mexico also increased considerably between 2001-2005, with a compounded annual growth rate of 22.9% carrying the market to a total of 16.9 million users by the end of 2005, growth of 21.8% on 2004.
Volume increases are anticipated to expand at a compounded annual growth rate of 14.8% for the five-year period 2005-2010 expected to drive the Mexican market to a total of 33.7 million users by the end of 2010.
ATSI is strongly committed to profitable revenue growth combined with rigorous expense controls. This ongoing success in expense control contributed to the the second consecutive quarter of positive cash flow from operations.
ATSI Communications entered into the Voice IP market to support the Hispanic market in the Texas-Mexico telecom corridor. In 2005, VoIP traffic represented 16% or 42 billion of the 260 billion international minutes processed. As a region, Latin America was the most popular destination in the world for VoIP traffic in 2005.
Their success in this niche market has served as the foundation for growth into other international markets.
Spanish. Source: ATSI Communications, Inc. and Yahoo Finance
Source: Simmons Marketing Research
Arthur L. Smith
President and Chief Executive Officer
ATSI Communications, Inc.
3201 Cherry Ridge Drive
Suite C-300
San Antonio, Texas 78230
Phone: 210.614.7240
Fax: 210.614.7264
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