The meetings experts at PGi
(NYSE: PGI) today announced a new partnership agreement with CenturyLink,
the country’s third largest telecommunications company.
Under terms of the agreement, CenturyLink is offering PGi’s GlobalMeet
online meeting solution, private-labeled as CenturyLink Web
Conferencing, to its customers. CenturyLink also uses GlobalMeet
internally for hosting meetings.
"CenturyLink’s agreement with PGi underscores our continuing commitment
to integrate best-in-class technologies to provide high-quality,
value-added services to our customers,” said Cindy Humphrey, vice
president, marketing and product management at CenturyLink. "CenturyLink
Web Conferencing is a great complement to the other telecommunications
and network services we provide to our customers today.”
"PGi is excited to partner with CenturyLink to offer a simple,
affordable web and audio conferencing solution to their employees and
customers,” said J. Scott Tapp, PGi’s executive vice president of sales
and marketing. "We designed GlobalMeet to be easily private-labeled, to
enable our partners to offer this high-value online meeting solution.”
GlobalMeet is a fully integrated web conferencing and audio conferencing
solution, with a simple interface designed to provide the easiest online
meeting experience possible. GlobalMeet requires no software downloads
for meeting guests, and it has a convenient "connect me” feature that
calls participants automatically, making dial-in numbers and passcodes
obsolete.
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About Premiere Global Services, Inc. ¦ PGi
PGi has been a global leader in virtual meetings for 20 years. Our
cloud-based solutions deliver multi-point, real-time virtual
collaboration using video, voice and file sharing technologies. PGi
solutions are available via desktops, tablets or mobile devices, helping
businesses worldwide be more productive, mobile and green. PGi has a
global presence in 25 countries and an established base of more than
35,000 enterprise customers, including 75% of the Fortune 100™.
In the last five years, we have hosted more than 725 million people from
137 countries in over 165 million meetings. For more information, visit
us at http://www.pgi.com.
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to various risks and uncertainties. Such forward-looking statements are
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Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and are made based on management’s current
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currently available to, management. A variety of factors could cause
actual results to differ materially from those anticipated in Premiere
Global Services, Inc.’s forward-looking statements, including, but not
limited to, the following factors: competitive pressures, including
pricing pressures; technological changes and the development of
alternatives to our services; market acceptance of new services,
including our iMeet® and GlobalMeet® services;
our ability to attract new customers and to retain and further penetrate
our existing customer base; risks associated with challenging global
economic conditions; costs or difficulties related to the integration of
any new technologies; service interruptions and network downtime; price
increases from our telecommunications service providers; technological
obsolescence and our ability to upgrade our equipment or increase our
network capacity; concerns regarding the security of transactions; our
level of indebtedness; future write-downs of goodwill or other
intangible assets; assessment of income, state sales and other taxes;
restructuring and cost reduction initiatives and the market reaction
thereto; risks associated with acquisitions and market expansion; the
impact of the sale of our PGiSend business; our ability to protect our
intellectual property rights, including possible adverse results of
litigation or infringement claims; regulatory or legislative changes,
including further government regulations applicable to traditional
telecommunications service providers; risks associated with
international operations, including political instability and
fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; and other factors
described from time to time in our press releases, reports and other
filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including but not
limited to the "Risk Factors” section of our Annual Report on Form 10-K
for the year ended December 31, 2010. All forward-looking statements
attributable to us or a person acting on our behalf are expressly
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