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Integra Telecom Trials National Agent Program

Posted on: Monday, 10 March 2008, 15:00 CDT

Integra Telecom Inc., a facilities-based, integrated communications carrier for business, partnered with the Intelisys/Digital Planet Strategic Alliance, to test its new National Agent Program. The new channel partner program streamlines pre-and post-sales administration; allowing national business communications agents to collaborate with all of Integra's markets. The National Agent Program is in a trial stage and will operate in addition to Integra's existing regional channel partner agreements. Through the program, partners have the option to operate on a single, national master agreement, rather than individual state contracts. Subject to the success of the trial, Integra plans to open the program to other qualifying agents later this year.

"Channel partners play a critical role in Integra's ability to offer industry leading telecommunication services to customers across all of the markets we serve," said Trent Anderson, vice president of marketing for Integra Telecom Inc. "Intelisys and Digital Planet have a proven track record of teamwork and meeting the needs of our customers. We look forward to working with them through the National Agent Program to broaden our sales partnerships to include national agents."

Digital Planet has operated as a regional Integra Telecom channel partner serving Minnesota and North Dakota for the past seven years. Through the National Agent Program, the Saint Paul, Minn., based company and its strategic partner Intelisys Communications Inc., located in Petaluma, Calif., will represent Integra's business telecommunication product set through independent sales channels.

"Integra Telecom can leverage the vast resources of the Intelisys/Digital Planet Strategic Alliance to develop and test a national program efficiently," said Shawn Schmidt, co-founder of Digital Planet. "Having been a top producing regional partner for many years, we are honored to be part of Integra Telecom's national trial."

About Integra Telecom

Integra Telecom Inc. provides voice, data and Internet communications to thousands of business and carrier customers in 11 Western states, including: Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, North Dakota, Oregon, Utah and Washington. The company owns and operates a best-in-class fiber-optic network comprised of metropolitan access networks, a nationally acclaimed tier one Internet and data network and a 4,700-mile high-speed long haul network. The company has earned some of the highest customer loyalty and customer satisfaction ratings in the telecommunications industry. Primary equity investors in the company include Warburg Pincus, Banc of America Capital Investors and Boston Ventures. Integra Telecom, Electric Lightwave, Eschelon Telecom, Unicom and OneEighty Communications are registered trademarks of Integra Telecom Inc. For more information, visit www.integratelecom.com.

About Intelisys

Founded in 1994 by industry veterans Rick Dellar and Rick Sheldon, Intelisys is the nation's leading Master Agency distributor of business communications services representing more than 30 top-performing telecommunications service providers. Intelisys provides these services through an elite network of the industry's most accomplished and professional independent telecom consultants and value-added resellers. Intelisys is the only telecom Master Agency focused exclusively on meeting the demands of the industry's top-producing independent sales organizations.

In 2006, Intelisys completed its merger with Resource Communications, an industry-leading telecommunications solutions provider founded by owner Dana Topping. Today, Intelisys is a full service solutions provider offering services ranging from enterprise-class hosted software solutions for telecom financial management to mobility services, infrastructure, and managed services. For more information, visit www.intelisyscorp.com.

About Digital Planet

Headquartered in Saint Paul, Minnesota, Digital Planet is a professional services firm specializing in the delivery of solutions that integrate telecom network services and phone equipment solutions. Digital Planet has relationships with more than 50 telecom carrier sources and offers equipment solutions from Toshiba, Avaya, and Samsung. Like its valued customers, Digital Planet has an industry proven reputation for quality and customer focus. For more information, visit www.dpcinc.com.

Source: Business Wire

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