Shortlist for the Inaugural UK Fibre Awards 2022 Event Published
The inaugural UK Fibre Awards event has recently announced its first shortlist of potential winners for 2022, which lists various broadband ISPs and network builders across ten categories (e.g. Best Rural Fibre Provider, Best Urban Fibre Provider etc.). Some providers, such as Giganet, managed to be shortlisted across multiple categories.
If you’re only just hearing about the ‘UK Fibre Awards’ then you’re not alone, since it only recently appears to have popped into existence and is being backed by media and event organisation firm BPL Business Media, seemingly with CityFibre as the headline sponsor.
According to the website, the event is a “truly unique awards process which will recognise the stand-out organisations, projects, technology and investments at the heart of the UK’s booming fibre, alternative network and carrier sector growth.” But it’s unclear what makes it so “unique“, particularly since some categories are similar to those mentioned alongside other industry award events (ISPA and Connected Britain etc.).
Advertisement
The awards site itself provides little information on how the winners will be judged, whether there will be any technical testing, if independent judges will be used or even whether it will factor in feedback from consumers. Suffice to say, there’s a very ‘by the industry, for the industry’ style vibe to it, but hopefully we’ll learn more when the winners are unveiled on 9th June 2022 at the Marriott Hotel Grosvenor Square, London.
The price of attendance is £275 +vat for a single person or £2,500 for a table of ten. For that you’ll be able to enjoy a drinks reception, three-course meal, half a bottle of wine per person (only half 🙂 ?), celebrity awards presentation, entertainment & post-awards party and water and coffee (note: oxygen is not listed as a feature like water, but we assume it to be included). It probably would have been cheaper to book a meal event at the local Harvester, but what do I know.
Shortlist for the UK Fibre Awards 2022
Best Rural Fibre Provider
Giganet
Ogi
Truespeed
Wessex InternetBest Urban Fibre Provider
4th Utility
CommunityFibre
G.Network
MS3Best Wholesale Fibre Provider
Full Fibre Limited
ITS
MS3
TalkTalk Wholesale ServicesBest Fibre Marketing Campaign
Brsk
Full Fibre Limited
Gigabit Networks
Giganet
Pure Broadband
Wessex InternetRollout Challenge Buster Award
Full Fibre
Giganet
Hawthorndon
Wessex InternetBest Fibre Innovation Award
CityFibre
Giganet
Mills
Swish Fibre
The Fibre Café
Trenches LawBest Fibre Rollout Supplier Award
Adtran
Gardiner & Theobald
Hawthorndon
Trenches LawFibre Provider investment award
CityFibre
GiganetOverall Fibre Provider of the Year
Giganet
Glide
G.Network
KCOM
Ogi
Swish
TruespeedServices to Digital Britain Award
[To Be Announced at Event]
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.
« Zen Internet UK Scraps Lifetime Price Guarantee for New Contracts
FullFibre Ltd Extend FTTP Broadband Build to 22 New UK Towns »
Sponsored by Cityfibre and no Openreach or Virgin anywhere on the shortlists….
or Hyperoptic and the many others in the field…
lol. fibre consortium gives prizes and accolades to …. other members of the fibre consortium.
I think I need to start a foundation and give myself prizes.
Or my favorites B4N and B4RN