Telarus' Wave of Awards Continues with Telecom Association Member's Choice Award for Top Master Agent

DRAPER UT, March 12, 2008 - Telarus, Inc., premier telecom master agent and creator of ShopforT1.com, ShopforEthernet.net, and VARNetwork.com, today announced that it has been voted the Top Master Agent for 2008 by members of the Telecom Association. The award is the Association's highest honor in the Master Agent category and is a direct result of votes cast by eligible members of TA, including agents, consultants, and VARs - who distribute telecom solutions to small and medium-sized business clients.

The TA Member's Choice Award comes on the heals of the Gold 5-Star designation that Telarus received in the 2008 VARBusiness Magazine Partner Program Guide, a guide that acknowledges the commitment and strength of a vendor's partner programs for its Channel resellers, IT integrators, and technology consultants.

"I feel like we've won the Super Bowl and World Series, all in the span of one week" commented Adam Edwards, president of Telarus. "Many people have asked the secret to our recent success; as though Telarus became successful overnight. The fact is, we've been executing on our unique business model for well over 4 years, quietly attracting new partners and finding new customers both online and offline. Likewise, our agents work extremely hard and they are extremely loyal. We work as a team, not individuals, and we reward our team with new technology that allows them to process more orders in less and less time. It's just that simple."

Telarus was nominated for the TA Members Choice Award for Top Master Agent for the first time in 2007 and was awarded the President's Award for "Program Innovation". After another year of double-digit growth, voting members of Telecom Association gave Telarus the nod for the Top Master Agent award.

"On behalf of the Telecom Association I'd like to congratulate Telarus and the other candidates for an outstanding vote" added Dan Baldwin, Founder of Telecom Association. "Telarus is somewhat unique among master agencies because they attract telecom business leads through Internet-enabled affiliates and then distribute the leads to their high-end telecom agents to close - a model that requires a great deal of technical innovation to work. Kudos to Telarus for investing the resources necessary to bring a successful new marketing model to the industry and for becoming the 2008 winner of Telecom Association's Master Agent category."

"Winning this award is a major coup for Telarus" said Lance Akins, VP of Sales. "It shows just how committed we are to our agent's livelihoods. We really do lose sleep over how to help them become more successful and they return the favor by leveraging our technology to increase their own productivity. We hope that this award will increase public awareness that there is a master agent who can write software, integrate with all of its carriers for real-time quotes, deliver internet leads to its agents, and wire accurate commissions on-time each and every month."

About Telarus

Telarus is a premier master agency whose goal is to make agents and VARs more successful than they can be on their own or with any other master agency. Telarus provides agent tools, automation, and superior support in an atmosphere of cooperation and ethical community. One example of the tools Telarus provides its agents is real-time voice and data price quoting through its patent-pending GeoQuote technology. GeoQuote makes it possible for business shoppers to access instant pricing and availability information for over 30 broadband data and voice service providers which include ACC Business, AireSpring, AT&T, Cavalier, Covad, Level3, MegaPath, Network Innovations, NewEdge Networks, Nuvox, PAETEC, One Communications, PowerNet Global, Qwest, TelePacific, Telnes, Time Warner Telecom, UCN, and XO Communications. If you are interested in making Telarus your Master Agent, please contact Adam Edwards, Telarus President, at (877) 346-3232 or click here further information.

About the Telecom Association

Originally founded in 1996, TA is a membership organization for telecom agents, channel partners, consultants and vendors that provide telecom and technology services to small and medium-sized businesses. Of TA's 2,500 members, about two-thirds are distributors and the rest are providers. TA collects, creates, publishes and distributes information and content to TA members that make their businesses more efficient and profitable. To learn more visit www.TelecomAssociation.com or contact TA Executive Director Kathleen Brown at 951-296-3870 or KB@TelecomAssociation.com.