ATX INC. Review and History

ATX INC. no longer appears to be active as a direct sales company.

Original Npros business profile for ATX INC., preserved below for archival purposes:

ATX Telecommunications Services was a Pennsylvania telecommunications company founded in 1985 and based in the Philadelphia area, later operating from 50 Monument Road in Bala Cynwyd. The business was built by principals including Michael Karp, Debra Buruchian and Thomas Gravina. Buruchian joined ATX in 1986 and became a partner and co-CEO, while Gravina joined in 1987 and also became a partner and co-CEO. ATX grew into a substantial competitive telecommunications provider serving primarily business customers throughout the Mid-Atlantic region.

ATX sold local and long-distance telephone service, toll-free service, calling cards, private-line service, Internet access, web hosting and development, frame relay, conference calling, fax broadcasting, cellular and paging services, network integration and other business communications products. Regulatory filings describe ATX as a telecommunications carrier and reseller rather than a consumer-product direct seller. By the early 2000s, the company was also providing higher-capacity voice and data services, managed networking, Internet security and other communications technology to small and midsize businesses.

ATX used both conventional employees and independent telecommunications agents and resellers to sell its services. Channel partners could earn recurring commissions from customer accounts; in 2006, for example, ATX's managed-security agent program paid approximately 12% to 20% commissions, plus promotional bonuses on certain services. This was a telecom agent/reseller model rather than a conventional MLM compensation plan. There is no documented binary, matrix, unilevel or generation-based structure in which representatives were paid for recruiting additional representatives.