ISPA Reveal WINNERS of the 2025 UK ISP Internet Industry Awards
The UK Internet Service Providers Association (ISPA) has tonight revealed the winners of their 27th annual 2025 internet industry and broadband awards. The night’s biggest winners included CommunityFibre, Lightning Fibre, and Wightfibre, each of which took home multiple awards. The former CEO of CityFibre, Greg Mesch, was also named ‘Internet Hero‘.
The award categories were once again revised for this year’s event, not least through the introduction of five new categories, such as the award for ‘Best Wholesale Platform’, ‘Best Network Integration’, ‘Best Technology Partnership’, ‘Engineer of the Year’, and ‘Best Customer Loyalty’. The event also came during ISPA UK’s 30th anniversary year.
Steve Leighton, ISPA Chair, said: “The ISPA Awards remains a brilliant occasion to celebrate the achievements of our industry and the people shaping the UK’s telecommunications landscape. As ISPA UK marks its 30th anniversary this year, it’s especially inspiring to reflect on how far our sector has come, and the role our members continue to play in building a world-class digital future for the UK. This year’s winners exemplify the innovation, resilience, and dedication that define our sector. As we continue to tackle challenges and embrace opportunities, from moving towards fibre rollout completion to enhancing digital inclusion, these organisations and individuals are laying the foundations for a more connected, inclusive, and sustainable future.”
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The winners were all crowned at a gala ceremony in London (City Central at the HAC). The results reflect the outcome of some limited technical testing by Thinkbroadband across several categories, as well as the use of a judging panel of 13 industry figures to help determine the ultimate winners across 18 categories.
ISPA Award Winners 2025
Best Fibre Infrastructure: WightFibre
Best Wholesale Platform: PXC
Most Innovative Fibre Deployment: 4Fibre
Best Network Integration: AllPoints Fibre
Best Community Engagement: Community Fibre
Best Customer Loyalty: Wessex Internet (Highly commended: Truespeed)
Best Customer Experience: Lightning Fibre
Engineer of the Year: Ogi
Sustainability Champion: Community Fibre (Highly commended: Openreach)
Best Technology Partnership: Strategic Imperatives/Fibre Cafe
Best Voice Provider: Voipfone
Best Customer, Network and Data Security: TalkStraight
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Champion: Openreach
Digital Inclusion Champion – Industry: Quickline
Digital Inclusion Champion – Charities: Frome Medical Practice Somerset
Best Consumer ISP (over 100k customers): Community Fibre (Highly commended: EE)
Best Consumer ISP (under 100k customers): Lightning Fibre
Best Rural ISP: WightFibre
Best Business ISP: Community Fibre
Internet Hero: Greg Mesch, CityFibre
Mark is a professional technology writer, IT consultant and computer engineer from Dorset (England), he also founded ISPreview in 1999 and enjoys analysing the latest telecoms and broadband developments. Find me on X (Twitter), Mastodon, Facebook, BlueSky, Threads.net and Linkedin.
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Oprah Winfrey would be very proud of this
“Best Network Integration: AllPoints Fibre”. Are they having laugh? 5 months since they announced the completion of the integration of their networks & you still can’t order retail packages via Cuckoo & Brillband where they are the only network & they are still showing Openreach GPON speeds for my address rather than the XGS-PON speeds of their network.
What is being celebrated here is the laudable ability to spin investment failure as an engineering victory. After the sale of the customer base to Daisy, APFN’s retail subscriber count is near zero after £hundreds of m of investor money has been dumped in fibre culverts. As there is nothing left to provision, so too nothing much to integrate, other than a few meagre API. If this is worth a prize, then the UK altNETs must be in dire trouble. Oh, wait…..
Surely Donald Trump should have won the Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Champion award.