Jay J. Morris Joins Spectrotel as Director of Business Development

NEPTUNE, NJ (August 9, 2013) – Spectrotel, Inc., a New Jersey-based Competitive Local Exchange Company (CLEC) serving customers throughout the United States, is pleased to announce the addition of Jay Morris the Company’s new Director of Business Development. He is a 28-year veteran of the telecommunications industry and a subject matter expert in local voice services (POTS) for multi-location enterprise accounts.

In 1985, Mr. Morris began selling local dial-tone to customers in New York through Liberty Cable and Telephone followed by becoming a co-founder of CampusLink Communications in 1993. Morris has since held various senior roles with CLECs helping to build and design best practices for servicing multi-location businesses and the channel partners who manage the accounts.

Mr. Morris will be responsible for driving the sales and marketing efforts of Spectrotel’s entire CLEC product portfolio targeted at national accounts, the Company’s fastest growing market segment. He will also assist in forging strategic alliances with carrier partners that add value to delivering first-in-class service to Spectrotel’s existing and future national account customers.

”I am thoroughly honored to be part of Spectrotel team. I have been in telecom a long time and until now, never in my career have I found a company in this space with the depth of talent, experience, systems and processes that make billing and care consolidation for large enterprises so compelling and seamless,” said Morris. “The company is led by strong and very engaged leadership that empowers every associate to always place customers first.”

“Jay brings a tremendous amount of sales and operational experience to Spectrotel. He has a track record of success and we are all truly excited that he decided to join us. We share the same vision of putting the customer first and cultivating strong relationships with our business partners. He is a great addition to our team and we look forward to his contributions.” said Ross Artale, Chief Operating Officer at Spectrotel.

About Spectrotel
Spectrotel, headquartered in Neptune, NJ, was founded in 1996 with a mission to bring quality, affordable, and personalized telecommunications services to customers of all sizes nationwide. From traditional voice and data services to leading edge IP-based solutions, Spectrotel’s “Simply Better Service” is geared to bring the best available underlying infrastructure with unparalleled solutions, service, and savings to its customers. For more information, visit www.spectrotel.com.

Contact:
Ellie Mondini
VP Marketing & Corporate Development
Spectrotel, Inc.
emondini@spectrotel.com
+1.732.345.7877

Ethernet Over Fiber A Forerunner In Spectrotel’s Growing Services

Spectrotel’s Ethernet Over Fiber product is one of the fastest growing Internet access technologies. According to a research report by Point Topic, hybrid-fiber increased by 27.5% in 2012 while true fiber optic grew by 20.3%. The surge in these new FTTx services are partially due to operators maximizing the lifetime of their existing assets.

Thank you for your vote!

Several members of the Spectrotel team attended the Channel Partners conference in Las Vegas last week and as many of you may recall, Ross Artale, COO, was nominated for the 2013 Channel Executive of the Year Award. First of all, Spectrotel would like to thank everyone who nominated Ross. Although he did not win the award, he is honored to be one of only 11 finalists. We look forward to Ross or any member of the Spectrotel team being a finalist and winner on next year’s ballot! Stay tuned for the upcoming article in Channel Partners Magazine about the nominees and the award event!

Channel Partners: Special Promotion on Spectrotel’s Web Conferencing Service

Spectrotel is offering a great promotion for its Web Conferencing service. We have 4 incentive prizes for web conferencing seats sold. Contact your channel manager for details about this limited-time promotion. If you are a business interested in Spectrotel’s Web Conferencing service, call 856-375-8414. Voice only conferencing is also available.

Ross Artale has made the list of 11 finalists for Channel Partners Magazine 2013 Channel Executive of the Year!

Ross Artale has made the list of 11 finalists for Channel Partners Magazine 2013 Channel Executive of the Year! The winner will be announced on Feb. 27 at the Spring 2013 Channel Partners Conference & Expo. We would like to thank everyone that voted for Ross. http://www.channelpartnersonline.com/news/2013/02/channel-partners-readers-choose-2013-s-channel-ex.aspx

Remember To Cast Your Vote for Channel Executive of The Year Award!

The Channel Partners voting for Channel Executive of the Year will end tomorrow (January 22nd) at 9 a.m. Mountain Time. Ross Artale has been nominated for the 2013 Channel Executive of the Year Award which will be determined by the number of votes received. As you know, Ross is a dedicated leader who works very hard with our Partners to help make all parties as successful as they can possibly be.

If you haven’t already voted, we ask that you take a few moments to support Ross by clicking on the following link before 9 am tomorrow and cast your vote: http://www.vpico.com/survey/TakeSurvey.asp?SurveyID=80M9ol12lpl5G.

If you already nominated Ross, we appreciate your support! For more updates on Spectrotel and the industry, follow us on Twitter and like us on Facebook. Feel free to forward the link to your colleagues.

Ross Artale has been nominated for the 2013 Channel Executive of the Year Award

Spectrotel is excited to announce that Ross Artale has been nominated for the 2013 Channel Executive of the Year Award through Channel Partners magazine. The recipient of the award will be determined by the number of votes received. Ross is a dedicated leader who views Spectrotel’s agent partner program as one of the most a critical parts of Spectrotel’s business. He has created an environment that ensures Spectrotel’s partners have the necessary tools and resources to close deals and be highly successful.

We ask that you take a few moments to support Ross by clicking on the following link before January 22nd and casting your vote: http://www.vpico.com/survey/TakeSurvey.asp?SurveyID=80M9ol12lpl5G. For more updates on Spectrotel and the industry, follow us on Twitter and like us on Facebook.

Feel free to forward the link to your colleagues and we look forward to a prosperous 2013!

Spectrotel Receives Positive Feedback From Agent Partner

Spectrotel recently held a webinar for its agent partners to introduce and review the Company’s newest service, Ethernet over Fiber (EOF) Internet Access. EoF provides high quality, high bandwidth Internet access over standard Ethernet interfaces which recent research indicates is in high demand. As businesses migrate to cloud services, IT departments are ensuring there are no internal or external complaints aboout quality and integrity of these hosted applications. EoF is a critical building block for customer migrations into IP service environments including SIP trunking and Hosted PBX solutions.

At the conclusion of the webinar, Spectrotel received a very positive comment from one of its subagents. We would like to share his comment:

“I liked the EOF webinar very much. The presentation was cogent and informative, while explaining everything on a level that I could understand. I was able to ask an important question at the end of the webinar and was even told that it was a good question. I immediately contacted Spectrotel with a set of bills to get pricing on this EOF offering. I have found Spectrotel to be very professional and helpful. Other telecom companies could learn a lesson from you guys.” — Jeff Goldberg, Spectrotel Subagent

Hunterdon Care Center Praises Spectrotel for Outstanding Support During Hurricane Sandy

It is not often that companies receive emails and letters of praise from their customers for a job well done. It is part of human nature to vent  frustrations and complain when there is a problem with service without the recognition of any extraordinary efforts put into solving a customer issue.  During hurricane Sandy, there were service outages by just about every electric, phone, utility, and other critical services throughout the U.S. east coast. These companies were working around the clock to restore communications and other critical services to their customers.  One of Spectrotel’s customers, Hunterdon Care Center, recognized the hard work, effort and support that it took to ensure the Care Center had its communications restored as quickly as possible.  We would like to share the customer’s letter which Spectrotel received:
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Good-Afternoon Gentlemen,

It is hard to believe that as quick as Hurricane Sandy blew in it has blown out to sea but not forgotten for the path of destruction it left in her wake.

One of my favorite quotes by Roy Rogers is “even if you are on the right track and you stand still you will get run over”. I must commend both Ron Mitchell and James Byers who I feel will never get run over because they are on the right track always moving forward in the right direction!

During the storm Hunterdon Care Center lost phone and fax service which as you can imagine is detrimental to a high acuity healthcare facility operations as well as dangerous. Both Ron and James worked tirelessly to ensure that our communication systems were restored which was no easy feat. We lost communication several times over two weeks, both Ron and James were always responsive ,understanding and brought a positive spin to a bad situation. Their expertise was greatly appreciated and suggestions of forwarding our main number to an alternate cell phone saved the day. We were in constant communication both Ron and James called me from their homes after long and exhausting days to keep me posted which I greatly appreciated. Ron and James are both experts at customer service and wonderful Spectrotel ambassadors.

I would like to thank you for the insight to hire two outstanding associates and I would like to nominate them for any type of employee recognition program you may have or recognize them as outstanding employees of 2012.

Sincerely Yours
Robert j. Kovacs L.N.H.A.
Administrator
Hunterdon Care Center

Spectrotel Announces Alliance with PGi®

PGi’s state-of-the-art collaboration solutions now offered through Spectrotel

NEPTUNE, NJ (November 7, 2012) – Spectrotel, Inc., a New Jersey-based Competitive Local Exchange Company (CLEC) serving customers throughout the United States, today announced that it has signed an alliance agreement with PGi, a global leader in virtual meetings, to provide Spectrotel with private-branded conferencing solutions as an addition to its current product mix.

Under terms of the agreement, Spectrotel is now offering PGi’s automated audio conferencing which is sold under the brand name Spectrotel Voice Conferencing.  In addition, Spectrotel is offering PGi’s GlobalMeet® web conferencing service and is sold under the brand name Spectrotel Web Conferencing. The new Spectrotel Web Conferencing service is an easy-to-use audio and web conferencing solution for up to 125 participants.  It is designed with a simple user interface to provide businesses of all sizes with the most reliable online meeting experience possible. The service requires no software downloads for meeting guests and has a convenient “connect me” feature that calls participants automatically, making dial-in numbers and passcodes obsolete.

“By utilizing PGi’s platform, Spectrotel now has best-in-class conferencing solutions that integrate seamlessly with our extensive line of high-value, high-quality telecommunications services,” said Ellie Mondini, vice president, marketing and corporate development at Spectrotel. “Spectrotel began testing PGi services several months ago and was very impressed with its email platform integration and overall ease of use.  We are excited to provide this important product line extension to our customers and channel partners.”

“With its large enterprise customer base, growing sales channel and world class customer care, Spectrotel is a great fit as a PGi private-branded reseller,” said Ralph Hawkins, Senior Vice President and General Manager of the PGi Partners Channel.

About Spectrotel

Spectrotel, headquartered in Neptune, NJ, was founded in 1996 with a mission to bring quality, affordable, and personalized telecommunications services to customers of all sizes nationwide. From traditional voice and data services to leading edge IP-based solutions, Spectrotel’s “Simply Better Service” is geared to bring the best available underlying infrastructure with unparalleled solutions, service, and savings to its customers. For more information, visit http://www.spectrotel.com/.

Contact:

Ellie Mondini VP Marketing & Corporate Development Spectrotel, Inc. emondini@spectrotel.com

+1.732.3voi45.7877