ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The meetings experts at PGi (NYSE: PGI) today announced a new partnership agreement with CenturyLink, the country’s third largest telecommunications company.
Under terms of the agreement, CenturyLink is offering PGi’s GlobalMeet online meeting solution, private-labeled as CenturyLink Web Conferencing, to its customers. CenturyLink also uses GlobalMeet internally for hosting meetings.
“CenturyLink’s agreement with PGi underscores our continuing commitment to integrate best-in-class technologies to provide high-quality, value-added services to our customers,” said Cindy Humphrey, vice president, marketing and product management at CenturyLink. “CenturyLink Web Conferencing is a great complement to the other telecommunications and network services we provide to our customers today.”
“PGi is excited to partner with CenturyLink to offer a simple, affordable web and audio conferencing solution to their employees and customers,” said J. Scott Tapp, PGi’s executive vice president of sales and marketing. “We designed GlobalMeet to be easily private-labeled, to enable our partners to offer this high-value online meeting solution.”
GlobalMeet is a fully integrated web conferencing and audio conferencing solution, with a simple interface designed to provide the easiest online meeting experience possible. GlobalMeet requires no software downloads for meeting guests, and it has a convenient “connect me” feature that calls participants automatically, making dial-in numbers and passcodes obsolete.
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PGi has been a global leader in virtual meetings for 20 years. Our cloud-based solutions deliver multi-point, real-time virtual collaboration using video, voice and file sharing technologies. PGi solutions are available via desktops, tablets or mobile devices, helping businesses worldwide be more productive, mobile and green. PGi has a global presence in 25 countries and an established base of more than 35,000 enterprise customers, including 75% of the Fortune 100™. In the last five years, we have hosted more than 725 million people from 137 countries in over 165 million meetings. For more information, visit us at http://www.pgi.com.
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