SecurityCoverage has signed a partnership agreement with Grande Communications® to provide market-leading security products, including a fully-managed, fully-supported desktop security service to broadband consumers. Texas-based Grande Communications® will offer Norton Antivirus 2007 and SecureIT Plus Service from SecurityCoverage to homes and businesses on its deep-fiber broadband network.
“We are excited to partner with Grande Communications to deliver Symantec’s flagship product, Norton Antivirus 2007, and our fully managed SecureIT Plus Services to Grande’s home, home office, and small business broadband users” said Robert O’Dell, President and CEO of SecurityCoverage.
O’Dell said Grande will become his company’s largest Texas partner, adding to the rapidly growing group of more than 240 Telco’s and Internet Service Providers in the United States already providing SecurityCoverage services to their customers.
“Excellent service for our customers come first,” said Grande CEO Roy Chestnutt. “Our partnership with SecurityCoverage allows us to offer our broadband subscribers peace of mind in desktop security. They will receive the same high level of vigilant support and attentive care large corporations give their employees.”
Chestnutt said offering SecurityCoverage services will help increase overall subscriber satisfaction with Grande’s broadband network, reduce customer support costs and help further differentiate their core offerings. Grande customers will benefit from the availability of the market-leading Norton Antivirus 2007 product and from the ease and simplicity of having a single provider in SecureIT Plus Service, a fully-managed, fully-supported, very secure high-speed Internet product. Grande customers will no longer have to purchase Internet security software from separate vendors and manage the products themselves.
The Grande Communications® agreement is another sign of escalating success for SecurityCoverage. Last quarter, the company was named “IT Service Provider of 2006” by the Technology Association of Iowa at the 2007 Prometheus Awards banquet and a Stevie Awards finalist for “Most Innovative Company” by the American Business Awards. SecurityCoverage also recently reported that revenue for the first quarter of 2007 grew 39 percent sequentially and 405 percent year over year.
About SecurityCoverage
SecurityCoverage provides fully-managed, fully-supported, corporate-style desktop computing security service to individual users through a partnership group of Internet Service Providers, Telecommunications and Cable companies across the nation. Based in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, the privately owned company offers SecureIT and SecureIT Plus services, which afford individual users with the same level of “hands-free” protection and convenience large corporations provide their employees. Product, pricing and company information is available at www.securitycoverage.com.
About Grande Communications®
Headquartered in San Marcos, Grande Communications® is building a deep-fiber broadband network to homes and businesses from the ground up. Grande delivers high-speed Internet, local and long-distance telephone and digital cable over its own advanced broadband network to communities in Texas. Grande's bundled service area includes portions of Austin, Corpus Christi, suburban northwest Dallas, Houston, Midland, Odessa, San Antonio, San Marcos and Waco. For more information, visit http://www.grandecom.com