2005 Awards

AT&T Virtual Private Network Services Receive Three Telemark Gold Awards for Customer Satisfaction. Company Ranks "Best in Class" in Seven Categories; Awarded More Gold Than Any Other Carrier.

Internet Protocol Virtual Private Network (IP VPN) services "seem to be hitting new heights," according to the most recent Telemark Services customer satisfaction survey. AT&T Inc. has received more Telemark Gold Awards than any other global carrier in the most recent global IP customer satisfaction survey results issued by the marketing services firm. (December 2005)

AT&T received the Frost & Sullivan Product Differentiation Innovations Award in the Toll-Free Services Market that recognizes our “most advanced and broad toll-free product portfolio that is backed by one of the most reliable networks in the industry.”

(November 2005)

Executive Alliance Honors the Achievements of Dr. Edward Amoroso, Chief Information Security Officer of AT&T, with the Information Security Luminary Leadership Award

This Award is presented at the Information Security Executive (ISE) National Award Gala to showcase and honor Ed Amoroso as an outstanding information security luminary and leader for his distinguished service, stewardship, and exceptional contributions to the advancement of the security industry. (November 2005)

AT&T's Networking Exchange Wins 2005 Marketing Excellence Award From ITSMA

The Information Technology Services Marketing Association, (ITSMA), presented AT&T with the Gold Award for Networking Exchange in the “Improving the Customer Experience” category. Designed to enhance customer communication and improve satisfaction, Networking Exchange allows users to customize their web experience by displaying their selected areas of interest and receiving monthly emails with new content updates. (November 2005)

AT&T Customer Portal Awarded Back-To-Back Honors From TMC Labs

AT&T BusinessDirect®, AT&T’s customer support, service and management Web portal, has been awarded its second, consecutive TMC Labs Innovation Award from Customer Interaction Solutions magazine. AT&T eBill, the portal’s electronic billing tool, was specifically recognized for its ability to give users greater visibility and control over their billing process. (October 2005)

AT&T Receives Computerworld's Business Intelligence Perspectives "Best Practices In Business Intelligence" Award

The award honors organizations that have applied exemplary business intelligence solutions to provide strategic advantage to their enterprise. AT&T was recognized by Computerworld for its strategic deployment of business intelligence technologies for Aurora, which is the technology that’s used to assure and enhance the security and reliability of the entire AT&T network. (September 2005)

AT&T Recognized by National Television Academy for Technology and Engineering Excellence

AT&T is being honored with a Technology Emmy for its leadership role in launching Telstar – the first intercontinental satellite transmission -- and in many ways for demonstrating the potential of satellite communications and enabling global broadcasting to scale. “Telstar marked a significant innovation that forever changed not only how programming was shared between continents, but demonstrated the viability of satellite as a distribution vehicle for live television programming,” said David Belanger. “We are proud to have led this effort.” (September 2005)

AT&T received the Frost & Sullivan Award for Ethernet Market Leadership

“AT&T has retained its market leadership position consistently in the Ethernet services market,” Frost & Sullivan noted in its research service. “The company has received this award based on a number of achievements, including its success in meeting the diverse needs of large enterprises and wholesale carriers that it partners with.” (September 2005)

AT&T Ranks #63 on the 2004 InformationWeek 500 Award for Business Achievement

Information Week 500, providing unrivaled insight into the business-technology practices of the nation's most innovative IT users, recently announces its list of top innovators, which reveals that AT&T placed #63 out of a total of 500 companies. The awards program identifies a variety of top innovators across all industries and ranks billion-dollar-size companies on the basis of innovative use of IT. (September 2005)

AT&T received the Frost & Sullivan Award for Product Line Strategy within the Managed Telecom Services Markets

"AT&T offers one of the most comprehensive suites of managed services to enterprise customers." "AT&T continues to strengthen its managed security services portfolio which revolves around its "Defense in Depth" philosophy.…[AT&T] views that having a single layer of defense such as a CPE-based firewall is not sufficient to protect enterprise networks from today's security attacks.” Frost & Sullivan (August 2005)

AT&T Honored With Coors' Gold Supplier Award

“As a global networking company, AT&T is focused on delivering the services that businesses need to effectively compete and succeed in today’s marketplace,” said Terri Tochihara-Dirks, AT&T’s Sales Center Vice President in Denver. “This award is a testament to our unwavering focus and underscores the commitment of our sales and technical support teams in assuring the best possible experience for our business customers, worldwide.” (July 2005)

AT&T Honored With Network Computing's Editor's Choice Award

AT&T is recognized with an Editor’s Choice Award for its multiprotocol label switching offering, and integrated/advanced services including multicasting, voice over Internet protocol, IP video bridging, broadband Internet access, traffic encryption, good remote-access options, and a business portal offering visibility into the MPLS network and self-service. (July 2005)

AT&T wins the Metro Ethernet Forum U.S. Carrier Ethernet Service Provider of the Year - Best in Business Award [Doc, 80k]

This award is for the service provider who, in the opinion of the judges, has done the most overall to move forward the Metro/Carrier Ethernet market in North America. The judging panel, made up of leading industry analysts, singled out AT&T for the Best in Business award on the strength of its portfolio of Carrier Ethernet services, broad geographic coverage, strong value proposition for the enterprise, and Ethernet business growth. AT&T continues to make significant strides in providing Metro Ethernet services by partnering with Ethernet suppliers and using their access to AT&T's WAN networks to further expand AT&T's footprint both in the U.S. and around the world. (June 2005)

AT&T Wins “Stevie Award” for Internet Protect product at The American Business Awards as Best New Product in Telecommunications

AT&T wins Best New Product Award for Internet Protect product at the 2005 American Business Awards. The Stevie Awards were created to honor and generate public recognition of the efforts, accomplishments, and positive contributions of companies and business people worldwide. "AT&T Internet Protect gives companies the assurance to electronically interact with their customers, suppliers and partners without the risk of cyber security attacks or the integrity of their information being compromised," says Kathleen Flaherty, chief marketing officer. (June 2005)

AT&T Receives Stratecast Partners Award For Managed Security Services

AT&T receives the “2005 Best-in-Class NSP Managed Security Services Award” for being "best positioned to serve the broadest and largest number of customers and create strategic differentiation for the company (either as AT&T or the merged AT&T and SBC) in the evolving communications industry.” (June 2005)

AT&T's Continuing Dominance over U.S. Audio Conferencing Services Market Garner it the Market Leadership Award

Based on AT&T's leading market share position, Frost & Sullivan's recent analysis titled U.S. Audio Conferencing Services Market selected it as the recipient of the 2005 Market Leadership Award. Despite competition becoming intense, AT&T has sustained its market leadership position, growing in both revenues and minutes within the U.S. audio conferencing services market. It is the fourth year in a row AT&T has maintained its market leadership position. (May 2005)

AT&T Achieves Regional Advanced Technology And U.S. Federal Service Provider Partner Awards From Cisco Systems, Inc.

“We are happy to present AT&T with Cisco's U.S. Managed Services Partner of the Year award,” said Nigel Williams, vice president of Service Provider Channels, Cisco Systems. “AT&T has a wide ranging set of Cisco-based managed services that cover the security, VPN, hosting, optical and voice networking needs of our mutual customers. These services deliver significant value to the customer, which is driving the adoption rate of these technologies. We are committed to customer and partner success and look forward to working with AT&T to continue to develop and deliver these Cisco-based solutions into the marketplace.” (May 2005)

AT&T received the '2005 Global Wholesale Carrier Excellence Award' for outstanding global sales representativeswhen responses weighted based on customer spending. (May, 2005)

The awards are based on the results of two (Global and U.S.) Atlantic-ACM annual Wholesale Carrier Report Cards which evaluate the performance of wholesale carriers from ratings by their resale customers (www.atlantic-acm.com).

"Frost & Sullivan Market Leadership Award" - U.S. Audio Conferencing Services Markets. (April 2005)

AT&T Executive Ranks on InfoWorld 25 Most Influential CTOs list

AT&T’s Hossein Eslambolchi is selected by InfoWorld as one of the Most Influential CTOs for his vision Concept of 1/Concept of 0. InfoWorld honors IT executives who have demonstrated leadership within their companies and the IT community. “We are going to revolutionize the industry around security that is not reactive but predictive and preventative. This is the technical vision of the 21st century,” Eslambolchi noted. (April 2005)

AT&T Named One Of Nation's Top Corporations For Multicultural Businesses

“AT&T’s commitment to diversity is clearly recognized and valued throughout the nation’s multicultural business community,” noted Kenton Clarke, president & CEO of DiversityBusiness.com. “The Div50 award is formal recognition of the respect you hold among business enterprises in this growing economic sector.” (March 2005)

AT&T CallVantage Service Wins PC Magazine "Editors' Choice" Award

AT&T CallVantage® Service is the “best overall choice” according to PC Magazine. “Its installation options, rich features and easy-to-use interface are the chief reasons this service earns our Editors’ Choice,” said Oliver Kaven, Lead Analyst, New Product Testing at PC Magazine. “AT&T CallVantage Service is a solid choice from a well-established company. Its impressive, well-rounded service is recommended for consumers looking to adopt VoIP.” (February 2005)

"AT&T rated excellent in network reliability, network availability and secure data transfer globally. AT&T particularly excels in the area of networking installation." Telemark Technology Marketing, Telemark Services Ltd. (February 2005)

AT&T received Telemark Gold Award for MNS Voice of the Customer: Benchmarking Customer Satisfaction, Issue 18, (February 2005)

AT&T recognized as finalist for the SC Magazine Global Awards in the Technology Leadership; Security Leadership category for recognition of AT&T Internet Protect. (February 2005)

AT&T Accepts "Practicing What They Preach" Award from The Telework Coalition Hall of Fame

AT&T is inducted in to The Telework Coalition Hall of Fame and Joseph Roitz, Telework Director, is honored for enduring support and practice of enabling employees to work remotely from company locations and “Practicing What They Preach.” (January 2005)