TELECOM Association honors Smoothstone with four industry excellence awards

LOUISVILLE, Ky; Las Vegas, NV (March 13, 2008) — Telecom Association (TA), a national membership organization comprised of 3,500 telecom channel and distributors, honored Smoothstone IP Communications with four awards recognizing industry excellence at the annual Las Vegas industry trade show.

“Once a year, the members of Telecom Association recognize the vendors doing the best job providing service to end-users through telecom channel partners,” stated Nancy Baldwin, President of Telecom Association. “Winning in four different categories evidences that Smoothstone is delivering on their value proposition,” Baldwin continued. “Our members are very careful with their votes and they only honor those industry vendors that have satisfied our members´ customers.”

The awards Smoothstone won include “Top 5” in the “SIP Trunks” category and “Top 10” in the categories of “Hosted VoIP”, ”IP-PBX” and “Managed Services”. TA members have the option of voting for any vendor in the industry in each of eleven categories, Baldwin concluded. “It“´s quite a testament to Smoothstone´s ability to professionally provision IT services that our members repeatedly voted for Smoothstone in such a competitive marketplace.”

“Smoothstone has always been dedicated to serving the needs of clients, and we´re humbled to be recognized in so many categories for our efforts”, said Christopher Assif, Executive Vice President of Smoothstone. “Receiving awards in multiple categories highlights the diversity and breadth of our offerings as well as the service level we deliver.”


About Smoothstone IP Communications:

Smoothstone IP Communications is a nationwide provider of unified IP communications services to mid-sized enterprises. Smoothstone delivers Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), IP trunking, unified threat management, MPLS networking, contact center solutions, messaging and advanced collaboration tools as a unified suite of managed services and cloud based applications. Smoothstone´s scalable, on–demand applications & services can be integratedwith a customer´s existing network and telecommunications infrastructure, operational processes and employee activities, enabling a customer to migrate to unified IP communications as their business requirements dictate. For more information, visit www.smoothstone.com or call (800) 773.3037.