ITSPA Reveals 2015 Best UK Internet VoIP Provider Award Winners

The Internet Telephony Services Providers Association (ITSPA), a trade body for the United Kingdom’s Voice-over-IP (VoIP) industry, has today announced the winners of their 7th annual 2015 ITSPA Awards. This year saw Orbtalk collect the gong for Best Consumer Provider, even though their website appears more business focused.

As usual the entrants for 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).

Separately, The ITSPA Members’ Pick award was a selected from a shortlist of suggestions from the body’s membership and the ITSPA Champion Award was chosen by the ITSPA Council for specific work of merit. Incidentally Philip Davies MP won the champion award for his “support in tackling anti-competitive blocking of VoIP services by certain mobile providers“.

Eli Katz, ITSPA Chairman, said:

“Congratulations to all the winners and to those companies highly commended. This has been another competitive set of awards reflective of a continuing growth and diversity of our industry. The market is maturing and developing at pace, with 2015 looking to be another promising year full of exciting new services.

There are a number of interesting developments coming up including the General Election, the final stages of the European Single Telecoms Package and an Ofcom review of the Digital Communications Market. We’ll monitor these developments closely and will continue to ensure our voice is heard in areas of importance to the industry.”

The ITSPA 2015 Awards Summary

Award Winners:

Best Consumer VoIP: Orbtalk

Best Business ITSP (Small Enterprise): Hello Telecom

Best Business ITSP (Medium Enterprise): Soho66

Best Business ITSP (Corporate): TalkTalk Business

Best VoIP CPE: BT Business HUB 5

Best VoIP Infrastructure: GENBAND Nuvia

Best VoIP Innovation: Antheus Milan Contact centre system

ITSPA Members’ Pick: The Latvian Presidency of the Council of the European Union

ITSPA Champion: Philip Davies MP for his support in tackling anti-competitive blocking of VoIP services by certain mobile providers and Jon Beardmore (BT) for leading ITSPA’s extensive Open Internet activity over the past three years, with positive outcomes for the industry

Highly Commended:

Best Consumer VoIP: Vonage

Best Business ITSP (Small Enterprise): Telappliant

Best Business ITSP (Medium Enterprise): Node4

Best VoIP Infrastructure: ipcortex – VoIPCortex

Best VoIP Innovation: Aeriandi – DTMF Payment Solution

It’s worth pointing out that last year’s winner of the Best Consumer VoIP award was Localphone.