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AWS renews corporate contract with carpet company

REDMOND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. reported that carpeting manufacturer Shaw Industries Inc. renewed its contract designating AWS as its primary wireless service provider. The contract calls for Shaw to add “significant numbers of voice users” and evaluate the carrier’s EDGE wireless data service for a potential salesforce automation solution deployment.

“Our relationship with AT&T Wireless gives us several advantages, such as cost efficiencies and access to the worldwide standard for wireless technology GSM,” said Carl Beard, director of information technology for Shaw, which is a Berkshire Hathaway company.

Terms of the contract were not released.

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