AT&T Wins Frost & Sullivan 2009 North American Company of the Year Award in Business Communication Services
AT&T Recognized for Its Impressive Growth Rate, Innovation and Customer Value
DALLAS, Feb. 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- AT&T* today announced that it has been honored with the Frost & Sullivan 2009 North American Company of the Year Award in Business Communication Services. AT&T Business Solutions (ABS) was selected to receive the award based on its success in growth strategy and implementation, innovation into business processes, and customer value, in the business and wholesale wireline voice, data and Internet services.
In 2008 and 2009, AT&T demonstrated an impressive growth rate, provided strong customer value and increased market penetration. According to Frost & Sullivan, AT&T consistently ranked as the market leader in a range of business services, including Private Line, SONET, ATM, Frame Relay, Wavelength Services, Ethernet, Multi Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) Virtual Private Network (VPN), and business Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP).
Additionally, with its Synaptic Hosting(SM) and Synaptic Storage offers, AT&T launched one of the most extensive portfolios of enterprise cloud offers in the industry. Leveraging its expertise in global networking, managed hosting and application performance management, AT&T developed seamless, end-to-end cloud services that meet the unique needs of enterprises for flexible, highly-secure, high-performance hosted computing. AT&T has acclaimed a leadership position in the rapidly growing, but fragmented enterprise cloud computing field, reported Frost & Sullivan.
"The Company of the Year Award is a prestigious recognition of AT&T's accomplishments in Business Communication Services," said Linda Stadtmueller, Senior Research Analyst, Frost & Sullivan. "Despite a challenging economy, AT&T has achieved market leadership and continued growth with best-in-class services and applications in the business and communications space."
"AT&T has done an excellent job in enabling the gradual migration of its customers from traditional services to next-generation services, while maintaining a commendable amount of dedication to innovation and R&D in the development of end-to-end business applications and solutions," added Stadtmueller.
ABS, which includes global enterprise solutions, small business & alternate channels, wholesale and GEM (Government, Education, and Medical), provides networking solutions to businesses of all sizes around the globe. AT&T serves millions of customers, including multinational companies on six continents and all of the Fortune 1000.
The recipient of this award was selected based on a customized Decision Support Matrix (DSM), an analytical tool used by Frost & Sullivan to compare companies' performance relative to each other with an integration of quantitative and qualitative metrics. The DSM allows Frost & Sullivan research and consulting teams to objectively analyze each company's performance on each criterion relative to its top competitors, and assign performance ratings on that basis.
*AT&T products and services are provided or offered by subsidiaries and affiliates of AT&T Inc. under the AT&T brand and not by AT&T Inc.
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About AT&T
AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) is a premier communications holding company. Its subsidiaries and affiliates – AT&T operating companies – are the providers of AT&T services in the United States and around the world. With a powerful array of network resources that includes the nation's fastest 3G network, AT&T is a leading provider of wireless, Wi-Fi, high speed Internet and voice services. AT&T offers the best wireless coverage worldwide, offering the most wireless phones that work in the most countries. It also offers advanced TV services under the AT&T U-verse(SM) and AT&T | DIRECTV(SM) brands. The company's suite of IP-based business communications services is one of the most advanced in the world. In domestic markets, AT&T's Yellow Pages and YELLOWPAGES.COM organizations are known for their leadership in directory publishing and advertising sales. In 2009, AT&T again ranked No. 1 in the telecommunications industry on FORTUNE® magazine's list of the World's Most Admired Companies.
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