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Granite Telecommunications Recognized as Emerging Partner of the Year at Cradlepoint Connect 2019 Partner Summit Awards

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Granite
Telecommunications
, a $1.4 billion
annual revenue provider of communications services to multilocation
businesses and government agencies, announced today that Cradlepoint,
the global leader in cloud-delivered LTE and 5G wireless network edge
solutions, has awarded Granite with the Emerging Partner of The Year
Award. The award was presented at the annual Cradlepoint Connect
2019 Partner Summit held in San Diego, Calif., on April 2, 2019.

Cradlepoint’s Partner Awards recognize excellent performance and
significant achievements of its partners. To earn the award, Granite
demonstrated exceptional year-over-year growth and a continued
commitment in Cradlepoint solutions.

“Granite is committed to providing our customers and partners with
best-of-breed solutions for their wireless WAN and is one of the only
truly end-to-end scale managed services providers in the space,” said
Granite CEO Rob Hale Jr. “Together with our broadband and SD-WAN
solutions, Granite’s managed wireless product line with Cradlepoint
achieves that goal. We’re truly pleased to have been named one of their
fastest growing, top partners globally, and we will continue to win with
Cradlepoint.”

“Cradlepoint is excited to be leading the rise of the software-defined
WANs that harness the full potential of Gigabit-Class LTE and 5G,” said
Eric Purcell, senior vice president of global partner sales and
alliances. “Our diverse set of resellers, service providers,
distributors and technology partners understand the potential of
wireless to change the world — across all industries. We celebrate their
work to help organizations large and small connect their people, places,
and things around the globe.”

About Granite Telecommunications

Granite delivers one-stop communications solutions to multilocation
businesses and government agencies throughout the United States and
Canada. The $1.4 billion company serves more than two-thirds of the
Fortune 100 companies in the United States, and has 1.75 million voice
and data lines under management. Granite launched in 2002 and grew
quickly by helping businesses to simplify sourcing and management of
local and long distance phone services with one point of contact and one
invoice for all their office locations nationwide. Today, Granite is the
leader in aggregating Plain Old Telephone Services (POTS), and has
extended its unique value proposition – “one company, one contact, one
bill” – to include a range of advance business communications services,
including Internet access, SD-WAN, wireless WAN, hosted PBX, SIP
trunking, mobile voice and data, mobile device management, managed
security, network integration and much more. Granite employs more than
2,100 people at its headquarters in Quincy, Mass., and nine regional
offices nationwide. For more information, visit www.granitenet.com.

About Cradlepoint

Cradlepoint is the global leader in cloud-delivered wireless edge
solutions for branch, mobile, and IoT networks. The Cradlepoint NetCloud
service, based on the Elastic Edge™ vision, delivers agile, pervasive,
and software-driven wireless WANs built on LTE and 5G services to
connect people, places and things everywhere with resiliency, security,
and control. More than 27,000 enterprise and government organizations
around the world, including 75 percent of the world’s top retailers, 50
percent of the Fortune 100, and first responder agencies in 10 of the
largest U.S. cities, rely on Cradlepoint to keep critical branches,
points of commerce, field forces, vehicles, and IoT devices always
connected and protected. Major service providers use Cradlepoint
wireless solutions as the foundation for innovative managed network
services. Founded in 2006, Cradlepoint is a privately held company
headquartered in Boise, Idaho, with a development center in Silicon
Valley and international offices in the UK and Australia.