BUENOS AIRES, Argentina,
Feb. 13, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Frost
& Sullivan awarded Level 3 Communications, Inc. (NYSE: LVLT)
with its prestigious 2016 Best Practices Award for Latin American
Enterprise Services Provider Company of the Year.
The award is based on Frost & Sullivan's research findings
on best practices across multiple business performance
categories.
Key Facts:
- The criteria used to gauge Level 3's performance against
competitors in the Company of the Year Award include two
overarching categories: visionary innovation and performance, and
customer impact (each with five benchmarking criteria).
- Level 3's value-added services (VAS), reinforced by its
innovative solutions, have positioned the company as a
best-in-class leader in the Latin
America region.
- Offering a range of services including content delivery network
(CDN), WAN optimization, network management and additional VAS, all
backed by a superior network infrastructure, allowed Level 3 to
satisfy unmet market needs in the region.
About the Award:
- Frost & Sullivan is an international consulting company
dedicated to helping clients accelerate growth and achieve
best-in-class positions in innovation and leadership.
- Frost & Sullivan's Best Practices Award recognizes
companies in a variety of regional and global markets for
demonstrating outstanding achievement and superior performance in
areas such as leadership, technological innovation, customer
service and strategic product development.
- Frost & Sullivan industry analysts compare market
participants and measure performance through in-depth interviews,
analysis and extensive secondary research to identify best
practices.
Key Quotes:
Carina Gonçalves, Industry Analyst - Latin America, Information & Communication
Technologies for Frost & Sullivan
"After extensive
research in this field, Frost & Sullivan firmly believes Level
3's outstanding infrastructure and service portfolio successfully
addresses enterprises' unmet needs. Unparalleled expertise in the
convergent telecom-IT services arena demonstrated by Level 3 has
earned the company an undisputed place as a full enterprise service
provider. Level 3—like no other player—has raised the standard to
the next level for a range of value-added services including load
balancing, WAN optimization, traffic shaping, network management,
CDN and Vyvx Linear Channel Distribution (LCD) services."
Leonardo Barbero, Product and
Marketing Senior Vice President, Level 3 Latin
America
"Enterprises are facing an ever-changing technology
landscape with high-capacity demands, security concerns and the
need to migrate to new platforms. This recognition by Frost &
Sullivan reinforces Level 3's ongoing leadership in delivering a
wide range of services that meet these needs."
For more information on Level 3's advanced network and service
offerings, visit www.level3.com.
About Frost & Sullivan
Frost & Sullivan, the
Growth Partnership Company, enables clients to accelerate growth
and achieve best-in-class positions in growth, innovation, and
leadership. The company's Growth Partnership Service provides the
CEO and the CEO's Growth Team with disciplined research and
best-practice models to drive the generation, evaluation, and
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About Level 3 Communications
Level 3 Communications,
Inc. (NYSE: LVLT) is a Fortune 500 company that provides local,
national and global communications services to enterprise,
government and carrier customers. Level 3's comprehensive portfolio
of secure, managed solutions includes fiber and infrastructure
solutions; IP-based voice and data communications; wide-area
Ethernet services; video and content distribution; data center and
cloud-based solutions. Level 3 serves customers in more than 500
markets in over 60 countries across a global services platform
anchored by owned fiber networks on three continents and connected
by extensive undersea facilities. For more information, please
visit www.level3.com or get to know us on Twitter, Facebook and
LinkedIn.
© Level 3 Communications, LLC. All Rights Reserved. Level 3,
Level 3 Communications, Level (3) and the Level 3 Logo are either
registered service marks or service marks of Level 3
Communications, LLC and/or one of its Affiliates in the United States and elsewhere. Any other
service names, product names, company names or logos included
herein are the trademarks or service marks of their respective
owners. Level 3 services are provided by subsidiaries of Level 3
Communications, Inc.
The information contained under the title "About Frost &
Sullivan" is provided by Frost & Sullivan, being the company
solely responsible for its content.
Forward-Looking Statement
Some statements
made in this press release are forward-looking in nature and are
based on management's current expectations or beliefs. These
forward-looking statements are not a guarantee of performance and
are subject to a number of uncertainties and other factors, many of
which are outside Level 3's control, which could cause actual
events to differ materially from those expressed or implied by the
statements. Important factors that could prevent Level 3 from
achieving its stated goals include, but are not limited to, the
company's ability to: increase revenue from its services to realize
its targets for financial and operating performance; develop and
maintain effective business support systems; manage system and
network failures or disruptions; avert the breach of its network
and computer system security measures; develop new services that
meet customer demands and generate acceptable margins; manage the
future expansion or adaptation of its network to remain
competitive; defend intellectual property and proprietary rights;
manage risks associated with continued uncertainty in the global
economy; manage continued or accelerated decreases in market
pricing for communications services; obtain capacity for its
network from other providers and interconnect its network with
other networks on favorable terms; successfully integrate future
acquisitions; effectively manage political, legal, regulatory,
foreign currency and other risks it is exposed to due to its
substantial international operations; mitigate its exposure to
contingent liabilities; and meet all of the terms and conditions of
its debt obligations. Additional information concerning these and
other important factors can be found within Level 3's filings with
the Securities and Exchange Commission. Statements in this press
release should be evaluated in light of these important factors.
Level 3 is under no obligation to, and expressly disclaims any such
obligation to, update or alter its forward-looking statements,
whether as a result of new information, future events, or
otherwise.
Contact
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Investors:
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Nikki
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Mark
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720-888-0560
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720-888-2518
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nikki.wheeler@level3.com
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mark.stoutenberg@level3.com
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Paula Vivo
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paula.vivo@level3.com
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SOURCE Level 3 Communications, Inc.