The 19th ISPA Awards is only two months away now and the fifteen categories had their shortlists announced on Friday 5th May and we are a bit slow is getting the list up onto our news due to the small matter of a launching a new version of the thinkbroadband site.
“The companies shortlisted at this year’s ISPA Awards play a vital role in ensuring the UK remains a world leading digital economy. The 19th ISPAs once again demonstrates the innovation and diversity of our industry and I look forward to finding out the winners at the gala awards ceremony on July 13th.”
ISPA Secretary General Nick Lansman
The venue for the awards ceremony has changed for 2017 and is the Café de Paris with the process behind the awards commencing last December as companies entered, followed by technical testing that we carried for the four broadband categories and hosting, thus ensuring that for example in the superfast broadband category the service is not just a slow old service hiding behind a fancy name.
| The 2017 ISPAs shortlist | |
|---|---|
| Best Superfast Broadband | Best Business Broadband |
| ASK4 | Bridge Fibre |
| Entanet International | BT Business |
| Exa Networks | Hyperoptic |
| Hyperoptic | Luminet |
| Venus Business Communications | M247 |
| RM Education | |
| Venus Business Communications | |
| Best Rural Broadband | Best Wireless |
| Airband Community Internet | ASK4 |
| Gigaclear plc | Luminet |
| Quickline Communications | M12 Solutions (Wessex Internet) |
| South West Internet | M24Seven |
| Wessex Internet from M12 Solutions | South West Internet |
| Best Host | Best Wholesale |
| catalyst2 | Entanet International |
| Exa Networks | TalkTalk Business |
| Heart Internet | Venus Business Communications |
| Memset | Zen Internet |
| Storm Internet | |
| Best Hardware | Best Tech Law Firm |
| Linksys Velop | Browne Jacobson LLP |
| RADWIN JET PRO | Kemp Little LLP |
| Sky Broadband | LawBite |
| Preiskel & Co LLP | |
| Best Marketing | Best VoIP |
|
Bowan Arrow – ShoreTel Partner Demand Program |
Gradwell Communications |
|
Entanet International Ltd – Target Partner Programme |
iNet Telecoms |
|
LivingCom – The Rental Requirements of Millennial Movers white paper |
Soho66 |
| Plusnet | Telappliant |
|
StudentCom – Generation Z |
VIA |
|
Talk Straight Ltd (Schools Broadband) – Discovery Kids |
VoIPstudio |
| Executive of the Year | Best Cloud |
| Dana Tobak, Managing Director & Co-Founder, Hyperoptic | catalyst2 |
| Furqan Alamgir, Founder & CEO, Connexin | Exa Networks |
| Lee Perkins, CEO, M24Seven | Memset |
| Matthew Hare, Chief Executive and Founder, Gigaclear | Storm Internet |
| Steve Hodges, Managing Director, Astro Communications | Talk Straight |
| Suzie Hargreaves OBE, Chief Executive, Internet Watch Foundation | VIA |
| Best Consumer Customer Service | Best Business Customer Service |
| CableCom Networking | catalyst2 |
| Hyperoptic | Entanet International |
| MacAce | Luminet |
| Plusnet | Storm Internet |
| Sky | Talk Straight |
| Wessex Internet from M12 Solutions | Telappliant |
| Wifinity Limited | |
| Best Security | |
| Exa Networks | |
| MacAce | |
| Memset | |
| Sky | |
| Storm Internet | |
| Talk Straight | |
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Another year and another bizarre list of ISPA awards.
Every year I see new names on the Best Superfast Broadband category list. I’ve usually never heard of them, most have zero consumer broadband provision and some are strictly business/leased circuit.
Remember the shortlist is based on testing results (implying these are the fastest/best of those that entered the awards) before the judges get to review their entries and choose a winner.
The Best Superfast Broadband is neutral with regards to consumer or business.
I just find it a strange set of ISPs that pop up each time.
You have Exa Networks which sells FTTC priced at £3,650 per year (ex VAT) for the “up to 76Mbps” package. One of the ISPA judging criteria is ‘Price and value for money’ which surely must question why Exa Networks is a finalist.
And the list of business providers don’t include many of the main business ISPs so equally bizarre that way…
Erm, doesn’t (but there is no edit post feature in this new shiny website skin…) 😉
Shortlists by their nature are short, and have been shortened from much longer lists in the case of the broadband categories by the testing.
Sky, BT & TalkTalk
says all I need to know about these awards
@brucie245 So this raises an interesting point should some providers be barred from entering into any category?
Is B4RN excluded for some reason?
Any ISPA member can enter, registration into the various categories opened on January 4th
https://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/7602-ispa-awards-2017-registration-is-open with initial registration closing on 27th Jan to give time for the two months of testing in various categories.