Allstream wins Cisco Collaboration Partner Award for Canada

Stock Symbol:  MBT

TORONTO, May 24, 2012 /CNW/ - Allstream, Canada's all-business communications provider, announced today that it is the recipient of a Cisco Partner Summit theater award for Collaboration Partner of the year, Canada. Cisco unveiled the winners April 17 at its annual channel partner conference in San Diego, California.

"Cisco is proud to partner with so many well-respected and industry-leading organizations, and it is an honour to recognize Allstream as a Cisco Partner Summit theater award winner," said Mike Ansley, Vice President, Canada Partner Organization at Cisco.  "The Collaboration Award presented to Allstream recognizes its performance and expertise as a Cisco channel partner in Canada in 2011."

"We are very pleased to be recognized as Cisco's Canadian Collaboration Partner of the Year," said Dean Prevost, President, Allstream.  "We believe strongly in the value of collaboration applications within Unified Communications and are committed to delivering advanced engineering, deployment and support capabilities to our customers. This award validates this work as we focus on further accelerating our success in the collaboration space across Canada."

Cisco Partner Summit awards are presented at three levels: global, geo, and theater.  Cisco Partner Summit U.S. and Canada theater awards reflect a partner's performance in a given geographic region of the United States or Canada.

About Allstream

Allstream is a Canadian leader in IP communications and the only national communications provider that works exclusively with business customers of all sizes. With nearly 600,000 customer connections, Allstream's momentum is fuelled by the knowledge, skills and entrepreneurial spirit of its 2,500 employees across the country who collaborate with customers to determine their unique communications solutions needs. Supported by its more than 30,000-kilometre nationwide high-performance fibre-optic network, Allstream's broad portfolio of business solutions are built from an array of advanced communications technologies and services including a wide range of innovative, highly-scalable IP-based solutions to help organizations communicate more efficiently and profitably. Allstream takes pride in its commitment to delivering an exceptional customer experience, and has long been recognized by its technology partners for the contributions made to their businesses. Allstream is wholly-owned by Manitoba Telecom Services Inc., which is listed on the TSX (trading symbol: MBT). For information on Allstream's products and solutions, please visit www.allstream.com.

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