24/7 Customer receives IT- People Award for Excellence
in Information Technology

Bangalore, India - January 20, 2006

24/7 Customer, the leading global provider of business process outsourcing services and the world's first offshore-based, integrated Customer Lifecycle Management services provider to Global 1000 companies, today announced that it has received the IT-People Awards for Excellence in Information Technology. The awards were aimed at recognizing organizations and individuals who had contributed value to business strategically and made a difference. 24/7 Customer was the only BPO company to be a recipient of this award.

24/7 Customer has received this award in recognition of its operational excellence, consistence in outperforming clients' expectations, exponential growth year on year and entrepreneurial skills of its leaders. The awardees were selected after a rigorous evaluation by a six-member jury, which comprised of eminent individuals across industries such as IT, Banking etc.

The awards were presented in association with NDTV and DNA, at an esteemed event held in Mumbai.

24/7 Customer

24/7 Customer is a leading global provider of business process outsourcing services and the world's first offshore-based, integrated Customer Lifecycle Management services provider. 24/7 Customer enables customers to enhance customer-impacting business processes through its experience, size, scalability, flexibility, business understanding and operational excellence. Founded in April 2000, 24/7 Customer employs over 5700 professionals across seven delivery in the US, Canada, UK, Philippines and India. The facilities supports over 4600 seats and are equipped with state-of-the-art physical, telecom and network infrastructure to ensure smooth handling of over 8 million transactions per month. In June 2003, Sequoia, one of the top three venture capital firms in the world, led the founding of USD 22 million in 24/7 Customer. The backing of Sequoia, coupled with an experienced management team and board of directors, propels 24/7 Customer's commitment to constantly exceed customer expectations. Earlier this year 24/7 Customer was featured in Tom Friedman's "World is Flat", was rated amongst the Top 5 best contact centres in a survey by neoIT and CMP Media and was also voted as the Best young company in the services category by TiE, USA.

For more information on the company, please visit www.247customer.com.

For more information on the company, please contact

Rekha
24/7 Customer
Mobile: +91 9945561944
Phone no: +91 80 51131672
Email: rekha.r@247customer.com

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