**Exhibit
      31.1**


CERTIFICATION
      PURSUANT TO


18
      U.S.C.
      SECTION 1350, AS ADOPTED PERSUANT TO SECTION 302


OF
      THE
      SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002





I,
      Arthur
      L. Smith, certify that:





|1. | I
              have reviewed this Quarterly Report on Form 10-QSB of ATSI Communications,
              Inc., a Nevada Corporation;
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|2. | Based
              on my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue statement
              of a
              material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the
              statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements
              were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this
              report;
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|3. | Based
              on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information
              included in this report, fairly present in all material respects the
              financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the small
              business issuer as of, and for, the periods presented in this
              report;
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|4. | The
              small business issuer’s other certifying officer and I are responsible for
              establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as
              defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) for the small
              business issuer and have:
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|a) | Designed
              such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure
              controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure
              that material information relating to the small business issuer, including
              its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within
              those
              entities, particularly during the period in which this report is being
              prepared;
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|b) | Evaluated
              the effectiveness of the small business issuer’s disclosure controls and
              procedures and presented in this report our conclusions about the
              effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures, as of the
              end of
              the period covered by this report based on such evaluation; and
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|c) | Disclosed
              in this report any change in the small business issuer’s internal control
              over financial reporting that occurred during the small business issuer’s
              most recent fiscal quarter (the small business issuer’s fourth fiscal
              quarter in the case of an annual report) that has materially affected,
              or
              is reasonably likely to materially affect, the small business issuer’s
              internal control over financial reporting;
              and
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|5. | The
              small business issuer’s other certifying officer and I have disclosed,
              based on our most recent evaluation of internal control over financial
              reporting, to the small business issuer’s auditors and the audit committee
              of small business issuer’s board of directors (or persons performing the
              equivalent functions):
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|(a) | All
              significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or
              operation of internal control over financial reporting which are
              reasonably likely to adversely affect the small business issuer’s ability
              to record, process, summarize and report financial information;
              and
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|(b) | Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves
            management or other employees who have a significant role in the small
            business issuer’s internal control over financial
            reporting.
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By
      /s/
      Arthur L. Smith


Arthur
      L.
      Smith


President
      and Chief Executive Officer


December
      14, 2006