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Who Can
Vote "Active
and independent" telecom agents, auditors, consultants, VARs
and or other individuals who distribute or
recommend telecom or data solutions directly to businesses and who have an informed opinion
about which solution providers do the best job can become free
registered voting members of TA and nominate and vote for those providers
qualified to be called
the “Members Choice”. The voting eligible status of all TA members
casting ballots will be verified by TA. "Active" is minimally defined as
having a publicly accessible business telephone number that answers in
the member's name. "Independent" is minimally defined as the capability
of representing more than one vendor. Who Can't
Vote Employees, customers,
or friends and family can not vote. Master Agents can not vote for
themselves. Agent managers can not vote for their own company. "Internet
only" agents that do not communicate directly with customers can not
vote. |
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About
TA’s annual “Members Choice"
awards recognize telecom vendors that excel in multiple categories.
Click here to see who won the 2008 Members Choice
awards
Click here to see who won the 2007 Members Choice
awards
Click here to see who won the 2006 Members Choice awards.
Founded in 1995,
Telecom
Association (TA) is a membership organization of 3,500
telecom agents, auditors, distributors, consultants, VARs and providers of telecom, data
and IT products and solutions for businesses. |
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Questions?
Kathleen Brown,
Administrator
951-296-3870 Tel
951-848-9062 Fax
KB@TelecomAssociation.com
Email
www.TelecomAssociation.com
URL
TelecomAssociation, Inc.
40000 Pasadena Drive
Temecula, CA 92591
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Eligibility
to Display TA “Members Choice” Award Logos
While any winning vendor may state in
written publications that they won a
specific TA Members Choice award category,
only current paid TA vendor members may
display the copyrighted image of any of
the TA Members Choice award logos or
badges.
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Other Rules
Winners will only be authorized to
distribute "we won" announcements that display the TA
Members Choice award logos during the calendar year they won. |
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Nominations and Voting |
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Nominating
began 11/11/8 and closed 2/20/9.

Voting began 1/6/9 and closed 2/20/9.

Winners were announced 2/25/9.
Questions? Contact Kathleen Brown, Executive Director
kb@telecomassociation.com or 951-296-3870.
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About the Categories
Categories are not mutually
exclusive. Vendors may be nominated into and win in multiple
categories. Until 2/20/9, TA may add additional categories or sub-divide
categories as it makes sense for our members. The top vendor in each
category will win the "Members Choice" award for that category.
Runners-up will win a designation as "Top 5", "Top 10" or "Honor Roll".
Honor Roll winners will be announce 3/31/9. |
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Who Can Win
Any vendor receiving a significant number of nominations
by TA members can receive votes and win
in any Members Choice category. Vendors need not be a current paid
TA vendor to be
nominated and win. Only paid TA vendor members may
display TA Members Choice award artwork or logos. |
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Awards Notification
TA will announce the winners of the 2009
Members Choice awards not later than 3/1/8. Honor Roll winners will be
announce 3/31/9. |
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Other "Fine Print"
1. TA members can nominate vendors into existing or new
categories until 2/20/9. To nominate any vendor for any category, TA
members need only to submit a nomination form where the identity of the vendor is
clear. TA may communicate with the member and/or nominated vendor to
confirm appropriate category nominations. Vendors receiving an
insignificant number of nominations will not be placed on the final
ballot.
2. For every ballot cast, TA will attempt to
confirm the member voting is indeed "active and independent" by calling
the member's phone number and/or reviewing the member's business
website. If TA can not confirm a voting member's status as "active and
independent" the vote will not be counted.
3. To maintain the continued credibility of TA's annual
Members Choice awards, TA reserves for itself the final decision on any
and all nominations, categories, votes and what criteria constitutes
"active and independent". |
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