Under the agreement, Verio will be the preferred provider of shared Web-hosting services to Qwest customers and will also supply e-commerce solutions based on Verio’s industry-leading hosting platform.
Qwest joins Japanese telecommunications giant NTT Communications and Italian telecommunications firm Infostrada as the latest members of the Powered by Verio program, which enables companies to quickly and cost-effectively offer Verio’s shared-server Web-hosting and e-commerce services to their own customers on a co-branded basis. Targeted at small and mid-sized businesses, the services include a broad range of hosting solutions from a simple Web presence, up to advanced commerce-enabled Web sites. The Verio shared-server hosting environment, in which multiple sites reside on a single Web server, provides a high-quality, reliable platform for tens of thousands of companies competing in the new world of e-business.
Qwest is committed to providing customers with the highest-quality broadband Internet communications services available, said Lewis O. Wilks, president of Qwest Internet and Multimedia Markets. Qwest chose to partner with Verio because of its proven ability to provide affordable, scalable and highly robust hosting solutions for small and medium-sized businesses.
This agreement with Qwest serves as the latest confirmation of Verio’s Web-hosting platform as the solution-of-choice for industry leaders, said Doug Schneider, president of Verio Web Services. We look forward to helping Qwest provide businesses with more of the high-quality and economical Internet services its customers have come to expect. We are also pleased to further expand our Powered by Verio program with one of the top telecommunications companies in the world.
