Verizon Business: 2006 Awards and Recognition

Heavy Reading’s 2006 Ethernet Provider of the Year Award for Market Leadership (October 2006)

2006 Technology Managers Forum Best Practices Award in IT Compliance for the company's Sarbanes-Oxley compliance program (October 2006)

Placed in the leaders quadrant of Gartner Inc.'s "Magic Quadrant for Pan-European Network Service Providers, 2006" (October 2006)

Placed in the leaders quadrant of Gartner Inc.'s "Magic Quadrant for U.S. Managed and Professional Network Service Providers, 1H06" (July 2006)

2006 INTERNET TELEPHONY TMC Labs Innovation Award for the Verizon Business IP Web Center service, a complete hosted contact-center solution (July 2006)

Top major provider ranking for large business customer satisfaction, according to a 2006 J.D. Power and Associates study (June 2006)

Metro Ethernet Forum's (MEF) U.S. Ethernet Service Provider of the Year – Best in Business (June 2006)

Placed in the leaders quadrant of Gartner Inc.'s "1H06 U.S. Network Service Providers (NSP) Magic Quadrant." (May 2006)

First major carrier to achieve the IP Telephony Remote Network Operations (RNO) Advanced Technology Provider (ATP) status from Cisco Systems (May 2006)

Cisco 2005 Global Service Provider Partner of the Year (April 2006)

Invoice Insight's top ranking, among major telecom vendors, for electronic billing excellence (March 2006)

Placed in the leaders quadrant of Gartner Inc.'s "Magic Quadrant for North American Help Desk Outsourcing Services, 2005" (February 2006)