TDS® achieves prestigious Polycom® Choice Partner—Platinum Status for the fourth year in a row
TDS Telecommunications Corp. (TDS®), an industry leader in providing VoIP services for businesses, announced it has been named a Platinum Level Choice Partner by Polycom, Inc. (Nasdaq: PLCM), the global leader in open, standards-based unified communications and collaboration. For the fourth year in a row, TDS joins this select group of Polycom hosted Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) service providers in achieving Platinum Status. The status, which less than five percent of service providers achieve, is based on level of expertise, experience and performance.
The most prestigious in the Polycom Choice Partner program, the platinum status, is only awarded to those partners who demonstrate the ability to deploy Polycom solutions at the highest standards. Partners must demonstrate best-of-class service and solutions to qualify. As a Polycom Choice Partner, customers can be confident that, in alliance with Polycom, TDS has the expertise to handle all their project needs, from concept to installation through ongoing support and management.
“We celebrate this achievement with our customers, because it attests to the partnership we’ve established with them,” said Tom Canfield, vice president of Commercial Marketing at TDS. “Our employees work closely with each and every customer to gain a clear understanding of their industry so we can help them maximize the power of hosted VoIP technology.”
TDS, the seventh largest local exchange telephone company in the U.S., has nearly 1 million customer connections in service and 2,500 employees. TDS offers businesses the latest communication solutions, including: VoIP (managedIP Hosted), dedicated high-speed Internet, and hosted-managed services.
“TDS has achieved a track record of success. TDS’ consultative approach and significant investments to extend and enhance their technical expertise is impressive and increasingly required to meet rapidly evolving market demand,” said Shawn Puddester, VP NA Sales, Global Cloud & Service Provider Solutions.
Polycom’s Choice Partner Program is the winner of CRN Magazine’s 5-Star Partner Program Award. The program emphasizes skills development and specialization. It provides the tools for partners to demonstrate excellence in delivering communication solutions and an outstanding customer experience. Polycom’s Choice Partner Program is part of the Polycom Partner Network, an extensive ecosystem representing nearly 7,000 channel and alliance partners that embrace and extend Polycom’s open standards-based video collaboration solutions. Together, Polycom and its partners deliver the most complete video collaboration solutions available to more than 415,000 Polycom customers.
Get more details about TDS and its Hosted VoIP solution, including what customers are saying about it, at tdsvoip.com.
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