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Earlier this month it was announced that TelePacific Communications (News - Alert) signed a distribution agreement with Aligned Communications. The companies have worked together in the past, as last year Aligned was acting as a subagent when it began to sell TelePacific’s services to small and medium businesses (SMBs).

It appears that this was a good working relationship for both companies. In less than 12 months of working together, Aligned became one of TelePacific’s Top 10 Partners. Aligned is a full-service telecommunications consulting firm, brokerage and master agency that has been around since 2008.

TelePacific is a provider of managed services that include telecommunications and Internet connectivity. It offers voice services, hosted PBX (News - Alert), private networking, data colocation, voice over IP (VoIP) applications, fixed wireless services and cloud computing, just to name a few, for small, medium and enterprise businesses.

“TelePacific’s solutions include the perfect blend of services for the small and medium business customers that the vast majority of our subagents serve,” said Dave Wallace (News - Alert), president of Aligned Communications. “They offer voice and data plus hosted PBX and email, etc. — all on a single bill. Having these products and being in the state of Texas — where 80 percent of our agents have customers—made TelePacific a good fit for us.”

According to Wallace, in an effort to ensure faster and cleaner installations, leading to successful post-sales escalation support, the two companies have been working closely with each other. In true Texas form Wallace said, “When we choose a carrier to do business with, let’s just say we like to ride the horses that we have in our stable. TelePacific‘s dedication to making us successful for our agents and our customers means that they’re getting the lion’s share of our business in the SMB customer segment right now.”

These are sentiments that TelePacific’s senior vice president of strategic opportunities, Ken Bisnoff agreed with when he stated that “We’ve worked hard to earn the trust of the Texas partner community, giving our full attention, resources and focus on winning their confidence. We feel delighted and fortunate to add Aligned Communications to our select roster of Master Agents and learn from them as they join our Advisory Board members because we both share the same bedrock customer-focused values. Together, we can provide Texas business customers the quality managed services solutions they need to grow, backed by the same industry-leading commitment to the customer experience lifecycle that has powered TelePacific’s growth in California and Nevada over the past 18 years.”

The collaboration between these two companies will deliver TelePacific’s connectivity, cloud and continuity solutions to small, medium and enterprise businesses (SMEs) through Aligned’s network of more than 300 subagents.