About ACG.Our beginnings date back to the 1970's
Our vision and technology take us into the future! ACG is a boutique telephone company offering premium hosted digital VoIP phone service for business. We offer high quality phone service with concierge style personal service, amazing features and customized solutions, all at vastly lower cost than you'd pay elsewhere just for phone lines alone. ACG generally saves businesses considerable money on their telephone service. But ACG also prides itself in providing a multitude of innovative services and solutions from basic phone service to sophisticated, highly creative interactive call routing solutions. Among the many problems ACG has solved are inexpensive virtual office scenarios (employees working remotely or from home, but still part of the corporate phone network), providing local phone numbers and presence in any of 1,000 North American markets and 60 foreign countries, providing a professional phone presence for those working in SOHO settings, even the ability to protect privacy by making calls from a cell phone yet showing the business Caller ID, or simply providing second, third or multiple numbers for people who conduct business only by cell phone. As a "boutique" provider, Founder and President Larry Weiss gets deeply involved with each customer in creating just the right phone presence and solutions for ACG customers large and small. Indeed, it is likely Larry's broadcaster voice you'll hear when calling many of the area's local businesses – as well as many businesses worldwide. ACG has the ability and creativity to come up with amazing solutions and applications that can really help you run your business – solutions and applications you probably never thought possible (ask us to tell you stories). Talk to us before you make any telecom decisions. |
Larry Weiss - "Larry the Phone Guy"
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Founder, President and Chief Strategist
Larry's award winning career began in the '60s at Long Island radio stations WGBB and WGSM, then going on to a variety of broadcasting, advertising and technical accomplishments, both on and off the air. In the '70s Larry created the award winning advertising program for Crazy Eddie, writing and producing over 3,500 radio and television commercials that are universally recognized as advertising classics today. He also created some of the first high volume call centers - including the famous Crazy Eddie "Free Price Quote" line (645-1196), his entry into telecom technologies (not counting a stint in college working for New York Telephone, cutting up old telephone poles with a chainsaw. It's true!).
In the '80s, in addition to advertising work for names such as Raceway Park and Chuck E. Cheese's, Larry also continued expanding his telecom work as one of the early pioneers in the telecom technologies of voice mail and interactive content by phone. As a result, with the breakup of AT&T, his broadcasting and communications skills, and his newly developed telecom technologies, Larry's company became a content provider contractor with NYNEX and other regional "Baby Bells." If you ever dialed the weather (976-1212) or the time (976-1616) it was Larry's automated services you heard.
With the consolidation of what became Verizon, along with new developments in Internet and VoIP technologies, Larry formed Atlantic Computer Group, Inc. and developed ACG Telecom - a boutique telephone company offering small businesses, professional practices and small offices a personal, solutions-oriented alternative to behemoth phone service providers.
With Larry's unique broadcast, advertising and telecom background, ACG knows just how to help businesses optimize their phone presence - not just for communications efficiencies, but also to help their businesses grow; all for a fraction of the cost big phone companies charge for basic service alone. But the most important feature of ACG is Larry himself. Larry makes it a point to develop relationships with ACG customers, to understand their needs and quirks, and how their businesses run. That personal service, coupled with "out-of-the-box" thinking, creative solutions for unusual scenarios, suggestions, advice and even coaching "makes all the difference in the world", says Larry. "People often ask me the difference between ACG and other phone service providers. I always answer, 'the difference is - you get me!". ACG customers would agree and have appropriately dubbed him "Larry the Phone Guy."
In the '80s, in addition to advertising work for names such as Raceway Park and Chuck E. Cheese's, Larry also continued expanding his telecom work as one of the early pioneers in the telecom technologies of voice mail and interactive content by phone. As a result, with the breakup of AT&T, his broadcasting and communications skills, and his newly developed telecom technologies, Larry's company became a content provider contractor with NYNEX and other regional "Baby Bells." If you ever dialed the weather (976-1212) or the time (976-1616) it was Larry's automated services you heard.
With the consolidation of what became Verizon, along with new developments in Internet and VoIP technologies, Larry formed Atlantic Computer Group, Inc. and developed ACG Telecom - a boutique telephone company offering small businesses, professional practices and small offices a personal, solutions-oriented alternative to behemoth phone service providers.
With Larry's unique broadcast, advertising and telecom background, ACG knows just how to help businesses optimize their phone presence - not just for communications efficiencies, but also to help their businesses grow; all for a fraction of the cost big phone companies charge for basic service alone. But the most important feature of ACG is Larry himself. Larry makes it a point to develop relationships with ACG customers, to understand their needs and quirks, and how their businesses run. That personal service, coupled with "out-of-the-box" thinking, creative solutions for unusual scenarios, suggestions, advice and even coaching "makes all the difference in the world", says Larry. "People often ask me the difference between ACG and other phone service providers. I always answer, 'the difference is - you get me!". ACG customers would agree and have appropriately dubbed him "Larry the Phone Guy."
Jeremy DeStefano
Technical Services Manager
ACG's resident technical genius with over 20 years in the Information Technology arena, Jeremy comes to ACG with a vast array of IT, technical support and customer service experience - administering major networks, computer systems and communications, and providing technical and customer support for the likes of Cablevision, The New York Racing Association, 1-800-Flowers, Sterling Bank, Tower Fasteners and others. From that world, Jeremy made his way to ACG, where he finds our relaxed, relationship based, boutique, business style to be a welcome contrast to the politics and pressures of the corporate world. Jeremy enjoys working directly with ACG clients, often on site, employing his strong technical background as he creates solutions and provides expert service. Careful though - Jeremy's laugh is quite contagious.
Technology - 24/7ACG's technology runs on a of network over 50 servers, located in over a dozen North American cities (plus some in Europe and Australia), all operating in major, state of the art data centers, and all staffed 24/7 by experienced technologists. (Compare that to the facilities of our competitors.).
Couple that with our unmatched experience, and our relationship based, concierge style of personal service and you can feel secure knowing that your telephone service is in good hands. |