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Verizon Business IDE Access Price ReductionFebruary 8th, 2010
New, competitive rates are now available for VzB Internet Dedicated Ethernet Access service. The new price points are available for 155 CLLIs that Verizon has identified as key markets.

This price reduction could provide customers with a 9% to 5...

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Telesales and Premise - remote AgentView VSPP users - update on Status ReportJanuary 25th, 2010
You can now access the Status Report in your AgentView – VSPP funnels. Previously, the report was only available in your Telesales AgentView funnel.

The URL to access AgentView VSPP is http://173.15.171.178:8090/index.php

You would ac...

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Telesales -- PZ4 AMEX orders must be in One-Source no later than 1/15/2010January 12th, 2010
All orders where the customer has been told (or promised) an AMEX for PZ4, must be completed in ONE-SOURCE by the close of Business on 1/15/10.

Please make sure you do not offer the AMEX, if the order cannot be provisioned in time, causing cust...

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Telesales -- New Centrex/CustoPak Gift Card Promotion January 11th, 2010
New Centrex/CustoPak Gift Card Promotion details are below. These promotions are good for all segmentation.

****Please note differences in effective dates by states and differences in offer details by states****

Product: Centrex ...

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Verizon 1st Quarter Gift Card PromotionsJanuary 11th, 2010
Verizon Gift Card promotion details are below. Unless specified, all offers are available through the 1st Quarter of 2010 and apply to New/Upgrade/Renewal units. Offer and effective dates are subject to change.

Product: Centrex
Offer Detail...

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Verizon Business 1st Quarter Gift Card PromotionsJanuary 11th, 2010
Verizon Business Gift Card promotion details are below. Unless specified, all offers are available through the 1st Quarter of 2010 and apply to New/Upgrade/Renewal units. Offer and effective dates are subject to change.

Product: IDA/IDE Plus
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Telesales -- Dupt request reason codeDecember 21st, 2009
Effective immediately the SST will no longer be rejecting cases using the category "Dupt Request Submitted". Going forward, the SST will cancel the One Source case, and will place all pertinent details as to the reasons why in the notes section, ex, o...

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Telesales -- Xpak Orders Follow upNovember 24th, 2009
It has been brought to our attention that many One Source cases that were submitted for Xpak Bundles in the last month, are not submitted in full.

This means the system generated summary order of the Xpak, which is found in the Account Worksheet,...

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Telesales -- XPAK Bundle - No Promos (PZ4) -- Incorrectly placing ordersNovember 24th, 2009
Please read the notice below….we have noticed that we are not all correctly placing our Expansion Pak orders. In order for a customer to received their quoted Bottom of the Bill credits, all of the cases that are generated in the Account Worksheet must b...

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Telesales ----- Expansion Pak clarificationNovember 16th, 2009
Below clarifies the requirements needed to qualify a customer for Verizon’s Multi-Line Triple or Double Play offers. Please see below:

To qualify for the PZ4 discounted pricing, the bundle (xpak or single line bizpak) has to be new. In which an ...

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Telesales ----- OneSource order entry screen - VMU15 field reminder - VERY IMPORTANTNovember 13th, 2009
This is a reminder for everyone to utilize the VMU15 field in OneSource if you have multiple people in your center that enter your OneSource cases. This only needs to be done if the multiple users are all submitting order under the SAME OneSource login. ...

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Telesales ----- HSI Flow-thru OrdersNovember 4th, 2009
Telesales Vendors:

Please share this info with appropriate personnel within your organization.

Trouble tickets have been opened that pertain to mising Due Date information on flow-thru HSI orders. It is currently being investigated ...

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Telesales ---- Verizon Rebate CenterOctober 27th, 2009
We have received several inquiries from customer’s regarding missing rebates on FiOS and DSL. We need to allow the rebate center 6 weeks from activation for rebate completion. In the event we have exceed the 6 weeks, please have the customer contact the...

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Premise ----- Managed Network Service (MNS) with VoIP Interface SupportOctober 12th, 2009
Earlier this year, VzB announced that MNS with VoIP Interface Support is available as a standard offer. Specifically, MNS (managed WAN) is available with the following VoIP products:

1) Private IP Access
2) Hosted IP Centrex or IP Trunking ...

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Premise ----- Verizon FIOS Top Honors in PC Magazine SurveyOctober 12th, 2009
For the third year in a row, Verizon FiOS Internet is the top rated Internet Service Provider (ISP) for Service and Reliability according to PC Magazine. Aside from receiving the top overall rating, FiOS Internet was first in nearly every category of the ...

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Telesales ----- Verizon Compliance ReviewOctober 8th, 2009
This is a review of Verizon Compliance requirements. If you have any questions, please give Mary Trainor a call at 570.824.6800, ext 12 or mary@sova.com.


Selling
Sales reps must adhere to the following mandatory compliance statements wh...

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Telesales ----- Corporation fail work around-VERY IMPORTANTOctober 7th, 2009
Please review the information below. We are seeing a high rate of credit failures. With this, the system is asking for additional un-necessary information. The information below is the temporary work around until the OneSource fix is in place.

A...

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Telesales ---- Disconnect at PortOctober 7th, 2009
It has been confirmed with the Quality Trainer for our SST's that they can issue partial winbacks in the following manner:

1) Sales needs to confirm with the customer the total # of lines they have with CLEC and identify all telephone numbers on...

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Telesales ----- Dry Loop DSL - Truck RollsOctober 7th, 2009
If you have receive any pushback from the Verizon SSTs advising that trunk roll is mandatory on Dry Loop, please copy and paste the below information into your OneSource cases.
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Telesales Te...

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Telesales ----- Expansion Pak orders - please select Expansion Pak in the Product Catalogue - No further Information Requests acceptedOctober 7th, 2009
OneSource IT has corrected the problem with Expansion Pak orders. A scrolling message appeared in OneSource starting yesterday advising that OneSource is not longer accepting Information Requests for Expansion Pak orders. Per OneSource IT, they will accep...

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Telesales -- X-PAK Order Entry October 7th, 2009
During the period that the Expansion Pak Bundle like was not working, we were advised to submit our Expansion Pak orders as Information Requests. Several people have indicated that the SST centers are rejecting our Information Requests and asking us to r...

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Telesales ----- FiOS BreakageOctober 7th, 2009
The What’s Next site has been updated with enhancements.

Important Reminder: The URL http://www.verizon.net/whatsnext/ must be provided to ALL customers who subscribe to FiOS Internet and/or FiOS TV Service.

The What’s Next site brings...

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Telesales -- Cancelled Orders -- SOVA currently is not manually updating these orders in AgentViewOctober 6th, 2009
SOVA receives a series of daily OneSource reports regarding our orders. The reports are orders that have moved to following statuses:

Pending
Rejected
Submitted
Complete
Cancelled
Final

Currently SOVA has stopped man...

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Telesales -- FIOS Credit October 6th, 2009
Deposit Screenings

Existing Phone and/or Data Accounts
If you have an existing acct with Phone and/or Data and you are issuing a change order to add TV – the deposit requirement is based on the customer’s payment history with Verizon. If you...

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VOBS and VISS Update October 1st, 2009
Effective September 20, 2009, Verizon Online Backup and Sharing (VOBS) & Verizon Internet Security Suite (VISS) has been expanded to support Macintosh® (MAC)® OS X 10.5 users. This now allows you to offer these great products to almost every customer with...

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Email Support Box Now Available! September 9th, 2009
Great news! If you have a quick question regarding a Verizon product or service, you can now get a quick response by emailing support@sova.com. This email box is monitored by SOVA's Pre-Sales Supervisor, Lisa Hoskins, and her Pre-Sales Support Team. (Gene...

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Verizon ILEC PRI Promotion June 15th, 2009
Most Aggressive Pricing EVER!
Verizon is offering their most aggressive ILEC PRI Promotion ever. This promotion gives 20% off the PRI Plus (East) and T&V Flat (West) in all states but NY. In NY, the promotion gives a 30% discount. This promotion is v...

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IntraLATA Toll Rate Change June 15th, 2009
PENNSYLVANIA Customers
Important information for Pennsylvania customers. Verizon is filing tariff changes with the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission ("PUC") proposing to increase Business Intra LATA Toll rates to become effective for Verizon Nor...

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Freedom for Business June 15th, 2009
Now 25 Lines Per Location
Verizon is now allowing Freedom for Business to be sold to customers with up to 25 lines per LOCATION. Previously it had been 25 lines per STATE. Customers will also be able to have 10 lines with Freedom plans per location, ...

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Dynamic Bandwidth Available on Verizon Business MPLS/PIP June 15th, 2009
Dynamic Bandwidth and Automated Monitoring is now available on Verizon Business MPLS/PIP. This allows customers to change bandwidth on demand, based on their needs. It also enables customizable reports that let them view bandwidth usage.


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