Sprint Was Named the Overall Winner of the Business Class Communication Services

August 18, 2004 - (HostReview.com) - Sprint (www.sprint.com) today announced that the Sprint Partner Program has been acclaimed by the 2004 VARBusiness Annual Report Card (ARC) award program for the outstanding satisfaction levels it provides to Authorized Sales Agents.

"The VARBusiness Annual Report Card is the industry-defining research on vendor/partner relationships," says Editorial Director Robert C. DeMarzo. "It is a significant benchmark because the winners are selected by their own customers."

At an awards ceremony held on Aug. 17 at the XChange 2004 Conference in Chicago, Sprint was named the overall winner of the Business Class Communication Services category and was also the subcategory winner for best Product Innovation, Support and Partnership.

Now in its 19th year, the VARBusiness ARC Awards recognize outstanding partner programs in 18 product and service categories including desktops, servers, storage management, Internet application server software and networking hardware. Winners were selected based on the survey results of more than 5,000 systems integrators, IT consulting organizations, value-added resellers (VARs), solution providers and software developers.

"Sprint is committed to providing a best-in-class partner program and is very pleased to be recognized by its agents in this year's 2004 VARBusiness Annual Report Card Awards," said Dana Chase, vice president - Indirect Sales, Sprint Business Solutions.

Sprint recently announced a major enhancement to the Sprint Partner Program that allows Authorized Agents to sell Sprint's portfolio of wireline and wireless products and services through one contract and one contact. Through the Sprint Partner Program, Sprint offers a full suite of communications products and services including local, long-distance, wireless and data, and provides Authorized Sales Agents with comprehensive support resources and a complete set of sales, marketing and business building tools to simplify and enhance the sales process.