They also offer products and services by
        
        
          well-known companies such as Kenwood,
        
        
          Icom and Vertex Standard.
        
        
          Another important partnership for Christie
        
        
          Walther is its long-standing relationship
        
        
          with Motorola. Not only are they are the
        
        
          largest independent authorized Motorola
        
        
          sales and service facility in Canada, but in
        
        
          2013 the company was named the Motor-
        
        
          ola Canadian Channel Partner of the Year.
        
        
          This February, they received the presti-
        
        
          gious Motorola Solutions Empower Circle
        
        
          Award for Customer Excellence, ranking
        
        
          Christie Walther in the top 50 of Motoro-
        
        
          la Solutions’ 7,500 global partners and, to
        
        
          date, the only Canadian dealer to receive
        
        
          the award, Hickey said.
        
        
          The award was a result of the work Chris-
        
        
          tie Walther had been doing since 2012 to
        
        
          introduce Motorola’s next generation digi-
        
        
          tal technology. PushPlus is a 29-site Digital
        
        
          Connect Plus network that covers Eastern
        
        
          Ontario and western Quebec, and is also
        
        
          the largest single operator-owned Con-
        
        
          nect Plus network in Canada. It comes
        
        
          with a digital suite of services, including
        
        
          private conversation, emergency alarm
        
        
          messaging, noise cancelling capabilities,
        
        
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