


Telarus president Adam Edwards receives the ACC Platinum Cup from
Sandy Butler Buchanon, National Sales Director for ACC Business,
and Celine Azizkhan, Vice President of Indirect Sales Channels at AT&T .
Telarus agents (pictured below) have worked hard to make Telarus
the number one master agent in the country. |
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For the Fourth Consecutive Year, Telarus Wins the ACC Business Platinum Cup by Writing Over $200,000 in New MRC in 2007.
DRAPER UT, March 12, 2008 - Telarus, Inc., premier telecom master agent and creator of ShopforT1.com, ShopforEthernet.net, and VARNetwork.com, today announced that it was named Platinum Agent by ACC Business, a division of AT&T, for 2007. "This award demonstrates that Telarus is consistently a top performer for ACC Business" commented Sandy Butler Buchanon, National Sales Director for ACC Business.
"ACC Business is one of the most popular carriers in the agent world. Receiving this honor for the fourth 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 2007 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 fourth 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."
Sandy Butler Buchanon, national sales director for ACC Business, and Celine Azizkhan, Vice President of Indirect Sales Channels at AT&T, presented the award to Adam Edwards, President of Telarus, at the at ACC Business Awards Luncheon held in Las Vegas at the 2008 Channel Partners Conference & Expo.
According to Patrick Oborn, VP of Marketing 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, Ethernet, MPLS, 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."
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.