"The successful integration of GeoQuote with Qwest's internal quoting system will allow our agents to quote Qwest data products in real-time, eliminating any delays or hoops to jump through," stated Adam Edwards, president of Telarus, Inc. "As a result of this major step forward, Telarus agents can now generate Qwest quotes and proposals for their clients in seconds, just like they do for most of our other carriers. This ease-of-doing-business will help us become the 'Qwest shop' that we have always aspired to become."

As of today, Telarus agents have real-time access to:

• Qwest data product availability with 100% certainty
• Qwest data product standard pricing
• Qwest data product promotional discount pricing that does not require manager approval
• Qwest data product residual commission amounts in exact dollars and cents
• Qwest data product spiff amounts (if applicable - 100% passed through to the agent)

Telarus has been a Qwest Business Partner since February 2007. Since then Telarus agents used a manual process to get pricing for all of Qwest's products and promotional pricing. This recent integration between GeoQuote and Qwest's Q.Pricer system has eliminated the need for manual research and greatly improved the ease of doing business with Qwest through the Telarus system.

"Telarus agents have been spoiled with real-time technology for years," commented Lance Akins, VP of Sales for Telarus. "They are used to instant quotes from over 20 providers each time they click on the "Data T1 Quote" button in their Telarus back office. Whenever a carrier requires additional time and effort to quote accurately, our agents tend to tune them out and gravitate towards those carriers that made their lives easy. Today, Qwest proves to be one of those carriers who make it easy for our agents to do business."

Telarus and Qwest will continue the real-time integration of their two systems for the products that still require manual research, namely: OneFlex Integrated T1, Ethernet, and MPLS. As a side note, Qwest has also signed on to sponsor Telarus' Annual Agent Conference in Las Vegas on February 28, 2009.

"Kudos to our IT Department and our Qwest Channel Manager, Michael Hallet, for getting this project to the finish line," added Patrick Oborn, co-founder of Telarus, Inc. and company VP of Marketing. "We hope that this achievement, along with our long list of successful vendor pricing integrations - will convince agents that they should give Telarus a try. We really do have real-time quotes and fiber look-up tools, we really do deliver warm leads to our performing agents, we really do generate equipment leads for the VAR partners of our agent base, it's all just too much for an elevator story. All we ask for is a chance to earn their business by making their telecom sales agency more streamlined with our technology and profitable through our lead programs."

About Qwest Communications

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About Telarus

Telarus is the number one master agency in 2008 as voted by the members of the Telecom Association and VAR Business Magazine. It is our goal is to make agents and VARs more successful than they can be on their own or with any other master agent. Telarus provides agents warm and cold leads, 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 Accel Networks, ACC Business, AireSpring, AT&T, Broadweave, Cavalier, Covad, Level3, MegaPath, Network Innovations, NewEdge Networks, Nuvox, PAETEC, One Communications, PowerNet Global, Qwest, Smoothstone, TelePacific, Telnes, TW Telecom, UCN, and XO Communications. If you are interested in giving Telarus a try please contact Justin Chugg, Telarus Partner Development Manager, at (877) 346-3232 or click here further information.