Telstra scores double win at Frost & Sullivan awards Media Release

Telstra took home top honours for both Market Leadership Managed Telephony Services and Leadership Conferencing Services at the third annual Frost & Sullivan Australia IT industry awards held last week in Sydney.

Telstra Enterprise & Government, Group Managing Director, Mr David Thodey, said the awards were further recognition of Telstra’s leadership position as Australia’s pre-eminent voice solutions provider.

“The recognition of Frost & Sullivan is a tremendous endorsement of the products and services we offer Australian organisations and great recognition of Telstra’s focus and investment in this area and also the leadership of Product Management and Engineering teams led by Philip Jones and Grant Nicholson,” Mr Thodey said.

"We are committed to ongoing investment to provide our customers world-leading, innovative and simple to use communications solutions that improves their productivity.

“In fact, last week’s win came on the same day that we announced new alliances with Microsoft and Cisco to bring to market new unified communication solutions that deliver our customers advanced IP based telephony, collaboration and video conferencing integrated service offerings.”

The technology backbone that makes this possible is Telstra’s world-class assets such as the Telstra Next IP™ and Next G™ networks that form the largest, fully integrated national IP network in Australia.

The Frost & Sullivan Awards recognise outstanding performance by companies in the ICT industry in Australia. Benchmarked against leading companies in each category, the recipients of these awards represent the best-of-breed in their sector in the country.

Recipients of the market leadership awards were judged according to their market performance in 2007/2008 and benchmarked against leading companies in each category, the recipients of these awards represent the best of breed in Australia.