Who Can Vote

"Active and independent" telecom agents, auditors, consultants, VARs and or other "1099" business owning 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 or business. "Independent" is minimally defined as the capability of representing more than one vendor.

Who Can't Vote

W-2 employees, customers, 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.

About 

TA’s fifth annual “Members Choice" awards recognize telecom vendors that excel in multiple categories.

Click here to see who won the 2009 Members Choice awards

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 over 3,500 telecom agents, auditors, distributors, consultants, VARs and managed service providers of telecom, data and IT products and solutions for businesses.

Questions?

Dan Baldwin, Executive Director

951-251-5155 Tel
Dan@TelecomAssociation.com Email
www.TelecomAssociation.com URL

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31500 Grape Street #3-307
Lake Elsinore, CA 92532

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.

Beginning in 2010, only paid TA vendor members can be nominated to win a Members Choice award. 

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.

Nominations and Voting

Nominations close 9/30/10.

Email voting conducted 10/4/10 through 10/29/10.

Winners are announced 11/1/10.

Register to vote

Nominate a vendor

Help Approve Nominees

Questions? Contact Dan Baldwin, Executive Director Dan@TelecomAssociation.com or 951-251-5155. 

Categories as of 12/14/9

TA Members Choice award categories for 2010 include

Master Agency:
Carrier:
CLEC:
Compensation:
Conferencing:
Data/Internet:
Disaster Recovery:
Energy: new
Enhanced Services:
Ethnic Markets:
Fixed Wireless:
Hosted VoIP:
Integrated Access:
IP-PBX:
Managed Services:
Merchant Services: new
Mobile Wireless:
Multi-Location:
Reseller:
SIP Trunks:
Telecom Expense Management:
Wholesale:
Other:

Click here to nominate a vendor onto the ballot

Categories are not mutually exclusive. Vendors may be nominated into and win in multiple categories. Until 10/29/10, 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".

Who Can Win

Any paid TA vendor member receiving a significant number of nominations by TA members can receive votes and win in any Members Choice category. Vendors need to 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.

Awards Notification

TA will announce the winners of the 2010 Members Choice awards on 11/1/10.

Other "Fine Print"

1. TA members can nominate vendors into existing or new categories until 10/29/10. 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. Each TA member's online membership record will have an official ballot section that will be accessible from 10/4/10 through 10/29/10. Winners and runners up will be announced on 11/1/10.

3.  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.

4. 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".