ITSPA Announces UK 2014 Best Internet VoIP Award Winners

The Internet Telephony Services Providers’ Association (ITSPA), which acts as a trade body for the United Kingdom’s VoIP industry, has today unveiled the winners of their 6th annual 2014 ITSPA Awards. Once again Localphone picked up the gong for Best Consumer VoIP provider.

This year the ceremony took place at the Altitude events space within the Millbank Tower, central London and was hosted by Dr Julian Huppert MP, Vice Chair of the Parliamentary Internet Communications and Technology Forum.

One other particularly notable winner on the night was the free WebRTC service, which scooped the ITSPA Members’ Pick award for their open project that enables web browsers with Real-Time Communications (RTC) capabilities via simple JavaScript APIs and HTML5.

Eli Katz, ITSPA Chairman, said:

“Congratulations to all the winners and to those companies highly commended. The success of the awards is a reflection of the efforts of ITSPA and its work continues at pace! We have a number of live initiatives around various issues including net neutrality, nuisance calls, provisioning and VoIP security. All our work is geared to promoting our industry and ensuring our members are fully kept up to speed on both threats, opportunities and new developments.

This industry is certainly maturing and we welcome all VoIP companies to join ITSPA, help add their expertise and enjoy the benefits from being part of the industry association.”

ITSPA 2014 Award Winners

Award Winners:

• Best Consumer VoIP: Localphone

• Best Business ITSP (Small Enterprise): Gradwell Communications

• Best Business ITSP (Medium Enterprise): Telappliant

• Best Business ITSP (Corporate): Node4

• Best VoIP CPE: Polycom – VVX 600 Business Media Phone with VVX Camera and VVX Expansion Module

• Best VoIP Infrastructure: GENBAND – QUANTiX QFlex

• Best VoIP Innovation: Voipfone – GeoDivert® Smartphone App

• ITSPA Members’ Pick: Web RTC

Highly Commended:

• Best Business ITSP (Small Enterprise): Soho66

• Best Business ITSP (Medium Enterprise): Orbtalk

• Best VoIP CPE: snom – 7xx Series

• Best VoIP Infrastructure: Babelisk – Bdeye billing software

• Most Innovative VoIP Product/Service: Soho66 – Quvu

It’s understood that the entrants to all categories had to complete a written self-assessment, which were then independently reviewed by the ITSPA Awards judges. On top of that Malden Electronics also conducted two months’ worth of technical testing for three of the award categories: Best Consumer VoIP; Best Business ITSP (Small Enterprise); and Best Business (Medium Enterprise).