DRAPER, Utah - March 4, 2007 - For the third consecutive year, Telarus, Inc. was named Platinum
Agent by ACC Business, a division of AT&T, for 2006. "This award demonstrates that Telarus is
consistently a top performer for ACC Business" commented Ben Ho, Executive VP of ACC.
"ACC Business is one of the most popular carriers in the agent world. Receiving this honor for
the third year in a row reflects on our agents' consistency and work ethic," said
Telarus President Adam Edwards. "ACC Business has also done a terrific job of working closely with
Telarus. It is truly a mutual effort."
The 2006 Platinum Cup Award winners include agents in the top 1 percent of all sales agents in
the ACC Business program, including InfoLink Communications, Intelisys Corp., MicroCorp, Simplify Corp.,
Technology Brokerage Group, and US Telebrokers in addition to Telarus, Inc.
"For the third year in a row, Telarus is expanding its reach by developing relationships with integrators and value
added resellers, which gives ACC Business greater reach and creates impressive sales productivity,"
said John Baker, President and CEO - ACC Business. "We were proud to recognize their top performance
and celebrate our mutual success."
Ben Ho, national sales director - ACC Business, presented the award to Adam Edwards, President and
CEO of Telarus, at the at ACC Business Awards Luncheon held in Las Vegas
at the 2007 Channel Partners Conference & Expo.
According to Patrick Oborn, Technical Marketing Director of Telarus, Inc., ACC Business has the most robust
footprint of all of the 30 carriers loaded into GeoQuote. The broad geographic coverage area allows
opportunities for ACC Business to compete for more T1, DS3, and Bonded T1 lines than any other carrier.
"ACC Business has the unique advantage of riding the AT&T network." commented Oborn. "This advantage
really comes into play in areas of the country that are underserved by the other national dedicated
service providers. ACC Business takes this advantage and combines it with excellent provisioning and
customer service. Almost all of our customers who sign with ACC Business report on-time installation,
correct and easy-to-understand bills, and show a willingness to renew their contracts at the end of
their terms."
"Our agents continue to guide this company in the direction it needs to go" added Edwards. "By doing
right by them and by focusing on continued IT development we have found a winning formula. What you
see now is just the begriming of this very fun, very ambitious climb to the top of the telecom space."
If you are interested in adding ACC Business to your product portfolio, please contact Thomas
Hernandez, Telarus Channel Manager, at 888-806-5459.
About ACC Business
ACC Business is a specialized brand from AT&T that offers a suite of essential data and voice
services backed by the superior quality of the AT&T Global Network – one of the most highly
acclaimed networks in the world. ACC Business’ products include Managed Internet Service, Frame Relay,
Private Line, Local and Long Distance services. ACC Business products are offered exclusively through
its authorized agents. For more information visit: www.accbusiness.com.
About Telarus
Telarus is a premier master agency who's goal is to make agents more successful than they
can be on their own or with any other master agency. Telarus provides is agents tools, automation,
superior support, all in an atmosphere of cooperation and ethical community.
Telarus drives warm leads to its agents and VARs through its web marketing portals which include:
ShopforT1.com,
ShopforEthernet.com,
VARNetwork.com, and
VARPartner.com.
Telarus provides its agents a back office outfitted with full CRM capabilities and
real-time T1, DS3, and Ethernet broadband price quoting through it's patent-pending
GeoQuote technology. GeoQuote makes it possible for business shoppers and agents to access
instant pricing and availability information for over 30 broadband data and voice service
providers which include
ACC Business,
Accel Networks,
AireSpring,
American Fiber Systems,
AT&T,
Cavalier,
Covad,
Level3,
MegaPath,
Network Innovations,
NewEdge Networks,
Nuvox,
PAETEC,
One Communications,
PowerNet Global,
Qwest,
TelePacific,
Telnes,
Time Warner Telecom,
UCN, and
XO Communications.
Interested agents should call Dan Watson at (877) 346-3232 for further information.
All press inquiries should be directed to Patrick Oborn at (801) 938-3701.