J.D. Power and Associates, recently gave Verizon Business a leading ranking for customer satisfaction among large-enterprise data service customers, has now ranked Verizon Business highest in overall customer satisfaction among large-enterprise voice services providers.

Respondents to J.D. Power and Associates' 2009 Major Provider Business Telecommunications Study -- Voice Services determined that Verizon Business sets the benchmark for five of the six factors used to measure customer satisfaction: performance and reliability, sales representatives/account executives, billing, cost of service, and offerings and promotions. Verizon Business' overall score of 684 on a scale of 1,000 was 22 points higher than the large-enterprise segment average score, and the company ranked particularly high in both the offerings and promotions and billing factors.

J.D. Power and Associates' 2009 Major Provider Business Telecommunications Services Study -- Voice Services surveyed U.S. home-based, small- to midsized- and large-enterprise business customers to measure customer satisfaction with providers of telecommunications voice services such as VoIP, call center technologies, toll-free services, voice mail/voice messaging, Centrex services, call forwarding, and local and long-distance services. The surveys were conducted in January and April 2009.