ArchiTelco's vision is to explore opportunities for leveraging new and existing architectural models, frameworks and methodologies to improve the efficiency and overall performance of telecommunications service providers from an Enterprise Architecture perspective ArchiTelco stands naturally for “Telco Architecture”, it was created in January 2003 as an open association of Telecoms industry experts Today, ArchiTelco's activities are revolving around the research and promotion of best practices in enterprise architecture, by leveraging existing as well as new innovative architectural artefacts, frameworks and methods across the entire ICT industry value chain