(Norwalk, CT – April 23, 2007.) Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC (News - Alert)) today announced that the Association Health Insurance channel, sponsored by Ideacom, has been launched as the 105th addition to the TMCnet channel program.

 

The Association Health Insurance channel promotes group health insurance plans for telecommunications companies, and includes an overview of Ideacom’s services. In addition, visitors can find valuable resources such as news alerts, feature articles, and industry news.

 

The channel can be found at:

http://www.tmcnet.com/channels/association-health-insurance.

 

TMCnet’s channels are micro-targeted information portals where readers can find topic-specific news, articles, feature stories and product reviews. TMCnet has created over 100 channels covering important topics in the IP Communications, VoIP, IP Telephony, CRM, Call Center and Information Technology industries. 

 

“Ideacom is pleased to join forces with TMC, the leader of communications and technology media,” commented Bill Gillam, Executive Director at Ideacom. “Taking advantage of TMCnet’s credibility and expertise in driving traffic will reinforce our branding and distinguish Ideacom as a market leader in health insurance for telecoms.”

 

Ideacom was founded in 1986 by a group of dedicated telecom business leaders with individual companies, who realized the benefit of working together in an increasingly competitive marketplace. Today, in addition to providing telecoms with significant discounts on equipment and services, and offering training on topics such as VoIP, Ideacom leverages its buying power to give member companies access to healthcare services at association health insurance rates.

 

Most telecommunications solution providers are experiencing spiraling employee healthcare costs. The IDEACOM Group Health Insurance Plan is designed to help to control health premiums over the long term.

 

“TMCnet welcomes Ideacom’s Association Health Insurance channel into our program,” stated Rich Tehrani, TMC President. “Ideacom is a well-respected telecom association that now provides employee health insurance to its members. Ideacom shares our vision in the advancement of new technologies. Our channel program is a community-building vehicle assisting our partners in building their brand, while contributing to the vast array of valuable content which drives traffic to TMCnet, the most-visited communications and technology Web site in the world.”

 

TMCnet is ranked among the top 0.003 percent of the most visited Web sites in the world by alexa.com, an amazon.com company that monitors Web traffic. TMCnet is viewed by more than one million unique visitors every month representing 18 million page views, according to WebTrends, and saw nearly two million visitors in January 2007.

For information on TMCnet’s channels program, please contact John Sorel at (203) 852-6800, ext. 229 or e-mail: [email protected].

About TMC

Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) publishes four print publications: Customer Interaction Solutions, INTERNET TELEPHONY, SIP Magazine and IMS Magazine. TMCnet, TMC's Web site, is the leading source of news and articles for the communications and technology industries. Ranked in the top 0.003 percent of all sites in the world by alexa.com*, TMCnet serves more than one million unique visitors each month, according to WebTrends. TMC is also the first publisher to test new products in its own on-site laboratories, TMC Labs. In addition, TMC produces INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO, The Communications Developer Conference, IMS Expo and Call Center 2.0 Conference. TMCnet.com publishes more than 15 topical online newsletters. For more information about TMC, visit www.tmcnet.com. (*alexa.com is an amazon.com company that ranks Web sites by their traffic levels. Neither alexa.com nor amazon.com is affiliated with TMCnet.)

 

Ideacom was founded in 1986 by a group of dedicated telecom business leaders with individual companies, who realized the benefit of working together in an increasingly competitive marketplace. By uniting their purchasing power, these successful entrepreneurs created an organization whose members enjoy the benefits of being part of a more than $200 million, national organization, while retaining complete control over their own business and its identity.

TMCnet
Tel: 203-852-6800
Fax: 203-853-2845
[email protected]

www.tmcnet.com

Bill Gillam, Executive Director

Tel: 1-866-IDEACOM (433-2266 )

Fax: 803-781-7666

Email: [email protected]

Website: www.ideacom.org