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Nitel Signs With CarrierQuoteShop.com to Provide Quotes to its Channel Partners
Nitel becomes the first new carrier of 2011 to join CarrierQuoteShop - allowing it agents to price the entire suite of small business products for free and in real-time.

DRAPER UT - January 24, 2011 - CarrierQuoteShop.com, the web's first open quoting portal for independent commercial telecommunication agents, today announced the addition of Nitel to its list of clients. This new partnership will allow all Nitel agents to access - free of charge - data T1, bonded T1, data DS3, and ethernet pricing in real-time via the web.

"CarrierQuoteShop.com will be instrumental in facilitating the delivery of price quotes to our valued agents as well as raising Nitel's profile in the channel community," commented Rick Stern, CEO of Nitel. "This partnership, in addition to our new iPhone app, is another tangible expression of our ongoing commitment to providing competitively priced nationwide connectivity services to the channel. We realize that the more our pricing shows up in CarrierQuoteShop.com quote results, the more circuits we will sell through our agents. Likewise, CarrierQuoteShop.com will allow our agent support team to focus on higher level 'hand's on' sales opportunities by relieving them of the need to quote lower-end products to their agents. We see this benefitting our company, our employees, and our partners."

Agents who qualify for CarrierQuoteShop access to Nitel include those agents who are:

  • Directly contracted with Nitel
  • Indirectly contracted with Nitel through any Master Agent
CarrierQuoteShop.com version 1.0 launched with six carrier partners on March 1, 2010. Nitel is the latest addition to the growing lineup of carriers seeking to enable their agents to sell their services more efficiently while using less resources internally.

Signing up for free, real-time, Nitel quotes is simple and straight-forward:
  1. An independent agent signs up for a free account at www.CarrierQuoteShop.com
  2. The agent then applies for permission to run quotes with Nitel
  3. The request is sent directly to Nitel, who has the ability to "accept" or "reject" each request
  4. After approval is granted, Nitel's quote feed is instantly added to the agent's CarrierQuoteShop price quote tool.
For more information on CarrierQuoteShop.com, contact Justin Chugg, Partner Development Manager, at 877-346-3232 or via email at support@carrierquoteshop.com.

About CarrierQuoteShop

CarrierQuoteShop.com is the web's first open quoting portal for independent commercial telecommunication agents. The web site is a collaboration of many of the nation's top communication service providers, including AireSpring, Cavalier, MegaPath, Nitel, One Communications, TelePacific, Telnes Broadband, Windstream, and XO Communications. The quoting backbone of CarrierQuoteShop.com is GeoQuote, the patented real-time quoting software developed by master agent Telarus, Inc. Through the portal agents of the member-carriers have access to commercial broadband and voice pricing for products such as data T1, bonded T1, data DS3, integrated voice and data, PRI, local voice, and Metro Ethernet products (under 10MB).

About Nitel

Nitel is a nationally recognized provider of wholesale MPLS, Ethernet, private line and Internet. Clients improve profitability and create operational efficiency with Nitel's nationwide connectivity. Particularly in rural areas, Nitel delivers significant savings through its flat rates and uses proprietary tools to accelerate procurement, installation and maintenance using over 100 networks.