tw telecom Wins ATLANTIC-ACM Wholesale Service Provider Excellence Award

LAS VEGAS, March 19, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- tw telecom inc. (NASDAQ: TWTC), a leading national provider of managed services, including Business Ethernet, converged and IP VPN solutions for enterprises and carriers throughout the U.S. and to their global locations, received the Wholesale Service Provider Excellence award for outstanding sales representatives from strategy and research consultancy ATLANTIC-ACM.  The 2014 U.S. Long Haul Wholesale Service Provider Excellence Awards were presented at COMPTEL, a major industry event held in Las Vegas.

"This award recognizes the excellent sales representatives we have throughout the country that serve our customers anywhere, anytime," said Tom Marx, president of Wholesale Services for tw telecom.   "It is extremely gratifying that this award is given by customers, and validates our ability to deliver innovative solutions and an industry-leading customer experience.   Our long standing focus on listening and collaborating with customers enables us to deliver the right solutions at the right time to help move their businesses forward."

tw telecom is the top ranked competitive provider of Business Ethernet in the U.S. and one of the top three leading providers of Ethernet overall, according to leading industry analysts.  E-Access is tw telecom's "One to Many" national Ethernet service that provides a ready-made infrastructure for carriers to quickly and easily reach their end-user locations across a secure, scalable and predictable network.

tw telecom continues to innovate around its Business Ethernet service platform that is the foundation for its Intelligent Network, with its industry-first Alerts Driven Dynamic Capacity ®, an automatic, dynamic bandwidth-on-demand capability, and its future Constellation Platform^sm  that will connect enterprises seamlessly to its elastic Business Ethernet network for enterprise, network and cloud solutions.   

About tw telecom
tw telecom, headquartered in Littleton, Colo., is a leading national provider of managed services, including Business Ethernet, converged and IP VPN solutions for enterprises throughout the U.S. and globally. tw telecom also delivers secure, scalable private connections for transport data networking, Internet access, voice, VPN, VoIP and security to large organizations and communications services companies. Employing a resilient fiber network infrastructure, robust product portfolio and its own Intelligent Network capabilities, tw telecom delivers customers overall economic value, an industry-leading quality service experience, and improved business productivity. Please visit www.twtelecom.com for more information.

About ATLANTIC-ACM
Boston-based ATLANTIC-ACM is a leading provider of strategic research and consulting services to the communications and information industries. In addition to producing the industry's principal benchmarking, sizing and opportunity studies, the company assists clients in evaluating business development opportunities for successful investment, market entry and long-term planning. ATLANTIC-ACM's U.S. Long Haul Provider Report Card is an industry-wide, survey-based study that provides long-haul wholesale service providers with insight into their operations and competitive performance through ratings by their customers. Wholesalers gain deep understandings of their market positions in areas such as sales representatives, billing, provisioning, network performance and customer service, as well as product quality, pricing and perceived value. Launched in 1995, this annual study is the telecom industry's principal study of long-haul wholesale provider performance. For more information, visit ATLANTIC-ACM's website at http://www.atlantic-acm.com.

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