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BellSouth and QC Data Sign Long-Term Agreement
ATLANTA, Jan. 18 - BellSouth (NYSE: BLS) and QC Data, Calgary,
Alberta, have signed a long-term agreement that extends and enhances their
relationship for outside plant records maintenance and work order posting
through 2006. The contract, originally signed in mid-1997, had been scheduled
to run through 2002.
Under the agreement, QC Data is providing on-site turnkey maintenance and
posting services for engineering records representing 23 million telephone
lines throughout BellSouth's operating territories.
QC Data currently provides some 200 employees who perform engineering
work order posting at six BellSouth Regional Maintenance Centers (RMC) in the
Southeastern United States. As part of the enhanced relationship, some 10 QC
Data employees will be added in BellSouth's Jacksonville, Fla., Regional
Landbase Administration Center.
Terry Peak, BellSouth's Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Solutions
director, said, "We are pleased with how QC Data has worked with us as a
valued partner in our RMC operations. Both companies have learned a great
deal during the first two years of this relationship. QC Data has
demonstrated its ability to perform BellSouth's engineering records
administration with a high degree of accuracy, timeliness and efficiency."
Since initiating the project, BellSouth has shifted to QC Data all
outside plant records maintenance activities such as posting of engineering
drawings, construction material lists, financial records and final updates to
corporate records for some 1,650 wire centers.
BellSouth's Supply Chain Management director, Roland Tunez, said, "This
effort has proven to be successful in large part as a result of establishing
long-term, value-based partnerships with key vendors such as QC Data."
BellSouth is a $25 billion international communications company,
headquartered in Atlanta, Ga., providing telecommunications, wireless
communications, cable and digital TV, directory advertising and publishing,
and Internet and data services to nearly 36 million customers in 19 countries
worldwide.
QC Data International Inc., (http://www.qcdata.com), with world
headquarters in Calgary, is an innovator in the field of information services
for oil and gas companies, utilities, telecommunications providers, health and
pharmaceutical organizations, and government agencies. The company's
Petroleum Data, Spatial Data and Health Informatics divisions employ nearly
900 information management specialists in Canada, Cyprus, Ireland, Russia, the
United Kingdom and the United States.
www.qcdata.com
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