ITSPA Names Finalists for the 2017 Best UK Internet VoIP Providers

The Internet Telephony Services Providers Association, which represents the United Kingdom’s Voice-over-Internet-Protocol (VoIP) industry, has announced their short-list of potential winners for this year’s ITSPA Awards event. Antheus, VoiceHost and Vonage are all up for the best consumer provider.

Last year saw Telappliant collect the award for Best Consumer VoIP Provider, although this was actually awarded on behalf of the company’s consumer focused VoIPtalk brand. By comparison the finalists for this category in 2017 are Antheus, VoiceHost and Vonage.

The event also covers various other categories (see below) and the winners are all due to be announced during a ceremony on 9th May 2017 at the Tower of London. Over the next few years we expect awards like this to become even more important, particularly with traditional telephone solutions making way for a much more broadband and VoIP orientated future.

Eli Katz, Chair of ITSPA Council, said:

“The strength of this year’s finalists not only reflects the quality of the entries received, but also the rapid development of the next generations communications industry. The ITSPA Awards continues to go from strength to strength and I look forward to meeting the finalists on the 9th May.”

We note that several of the categories – Best Consumer VoIP, Best Business ITSP (Small Enterprise) and Best Business (Medium Enterprise) – require two months’ worth of specialist technical testing by Netaxis Solutions, with support from Ziron.

The Finalists:

Best Consumer VoIP

Antheus

VoiceHost

Vonage

Best ITSP (Small Enterprise)

Hello Telecom

Soho66

SureVoIP

Telappliant

Voipfone

VoIPstudio

Best ITSP (Medium Enterprise)

Hello Telecom

Orbtalk

RingCentral

VoIPstudio

VTSL

Best ITSP (Corporate)

NFON

Pragma Distribution

SureVoIP

TalkTalk Business

Best VoIP CPE

Panasonic – Multi Cell SIP DECT KX-UDS124/UDT1x1 System

Polycom ® VVX® 500, 501 Business Media Phones

Snom Technology AG – D715 Desk Telephone

VTech Communications – VCS754A with Orbitlink Wireless Technology

Best VoIP Infrastructure

aql

Ciptex – CAL – The Communications Cloud

Gamma – SIP Trunking

GENBAND Kandy CPaaS

IPCortex Service Provider Platform

Metaswitch – Clearwater IMS

Best VoIP Innovation

Edgewater Networks – Network Edge Orchestration

Epsilon Telecommunications – SIP Trunk Federation

Gradwell Communications – Cloud Storage

Vonage – Nexmo Voice API Platform

Voipfone Virtual PA

Best ITSP Reseller

Arrow Business Communications

Sprint Convergence – Horizon

Express Telephony – Express CloudPBX

Fidelity Group – Hosted Telephony

Members’ Pick Award

Sharon White, Chief Executive of Ofcom – For her leadership surrounding the reform of Openreach

NICC – For their extensive work to produce a guidance document on the use and implementation of SIP ALG

Homer SIP Capture  – For providing a 100% Open-Source RTC Capture, Analysis and Monitoring tool