Provider certification record

Advantage Cellular Systems, Inc.

Listed

Identity

Legal business name: Advantage Cellular Systems, Inc.
Doing-business-as: DTC Advantage
Foreign Voice Service Provider: No
Business address: 111 High St, P. O. Box 247, Alexandria TN 37012
Filing contact: Ed Massey
IT / CO Manager · Networking
emassey@staff-dtc.com
(615) 464-2265
111 High St Alexandria TN 37012
United States of America
Principals, Affiliates, Subsidiaries, and Parent Companies: DeKalb Telephone Cooperative, Inc. is a member-owned ILEC serving 10 exchanges in Tennessee. A Board of Directors has managing control of DeKalb Telephone Cooperative, Inc. and its subsidiaries. Advantage Cellular Systems, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of DeKalb Telephone Cooperative, Inc. DeKalb Telephone Cooperative, Inc. owns 100% of Advantage Cellular Systems, Inc. Kasey Krueger serves as CEO of DeKalb Telephone Cooperative, Inc. and its subsidiaries. DeKalb Telephone Cooperative, Inc. and its subsidiaries Board of Directors are: Bennie Curtis – President James Dillard, Jr. – Vice-President Terry McPeak – Secretary Randy Campbell – Treasurer Kathy Pugh Jim Vinson Ronald Garrison Kurt Bass Brian Alexander David Parker

Provider role(s): Voice service provider
STIR/SHAKEN implementation: Role Implementation
Voice service provider Partial
Overall Partial
Exemption rules: ACSI is eligible for the continuing extension of the STIR SHAKEN implementation deadline as a small voice service provider (§64.6304 (a)(2) that has non-IP portions within its network §64.6304(d). ACSI provides local service to fewer than 100,000 voice subscriber lines and has customers served on the non-IP portions of ACSI’s network which relies on technology that cannot initiate, maintain, carry, process, and terminate SIP calls. ACSI’s non-IP network is connected to carriers that do not support IP connectivity; therefore, ACSI cannot upgrade the Non-IP connections to IP connectivity. To meet the non-IP network criteria for the continuing STIR SHAKEN extension (§ 64.6303 (a)(2)), Advantage Cellular Systems, Inc. is a member of NTCA. NTCA participates on the ATIS PTSC Non-IP Call Authentication Task Force working group which developed the (ATIS Solutions) non-IP call authentication solutions. NTCA is serving as Advantage Cellular Systems, Inc.’s third-party representative on the ATIS PTSC Non-IP Call Authentication Task Force working group.

Role	Implementation
Voice service provider	Partial
Overall	Partial

Date	Event	Detail / diff
2026-02-12	New	Initial certification filed and added to database.