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Maintel signs 3 year partnership agreement to provide Westcon Convergence UK with maintenance and professional services

Maintel, one of the leading independent telecoms services providers in the UK, today announces an agreement to provide its services to Distribution Partner Westcon Convergence UK. This strategic partnership will allow Westcon to resell Maintel's extensive portfolio of maintenance and professional services to its Reseller Partners with Maintel maintaining over 1500 current Westcon client sites.

The move accelerates Maintel's strategy of extending its Avaya capabilities and expertise as 8 Westcon technical services staff transfers to Maintel. Maintel currently offers nationwide coverage across a wide range of technologies with an engineering force now nearly 100-strong.

The move also supports Westcon's services strategy to extend its services capabilities across a broader range of products, providing its partners and their customers with a more complete service offering.

Through the partnership with Maintel, Westcon Reseller Partners will also benefit from Maintel's value-added support offering including dedicated account management, pricing tools, pre-sales bid support and online web support.

Maintel Sales and Marketing Director, Angus McCaffery stated, "Maintel's 20 years proven track record in supporting the channel, combined with a commitment to innovation and excellence, ensure this partnership will deliver increased value and new opportunities to Westcon's channel partners. And the addition of specialist engineering resource will allow us to ramp up our Avaya capabilities nationwide, overnight." 

Tim Brooks, GM Westcon Convergence UK commented, "We are very excited about this agreement with Maintel. In order to enhance the service we offer to our customers, it was important to find a well-established partner that could offer best-class maintenance and professional services across a wide range of products." Brooks continued; " it was also critical to find a channel-neutral partner who would respect and protect the relationships that our resellers have with their end users and reflected Westcon's approach to channel. Maintel fitted the bill perfectly."

For further information please contact:

Eddie Buxton, Chief Executive 020 7401 4601

Angus Mccaffery, Sales and Marketing Director 020 7401 4646

About Maintel

Maintel is one of the largest independent telecoms services providers in the UK, providing maintenance and professional services to major manufacturers, dealers and end-users nationwide. As premier partners with nearly all leading manufacturers including Avaya, Mitel and Siemens, Maintel offers an extensive portfolio of services covering systems maintenance, consultancy, equipments sales, pre-sales, project management, engineering and software upgrades. Maintel's Network Services division provides telephone line rental (WLR), outbound and inbound fixed line call traffic, data connectivity and VoIP services. For more information, visit www.maintel.co.uk.

About Westcon Group Westcon Group, Inc. is the leading specialty distributor in networking, security, mobility and convergence for leading technology vendors, including Cisco, Avaya and Polycom. Through its Comstor, Westcon Convergence, and Westcon Security business practices, Westcon Group sells products and services to resellers, systems integrators and service providers. Westcon Group has particular expertise in the convergence of voice, data and video applications and technologies, including voice-over Internet protocol, or VoIP, security for networking and communications systems, remote access, Internet and e-business, virtual private networks, videoconferencing and wireless connectivity. For more information, visit www.westcongroup.com.