Winning Operators of the Inaugural UK Fibre Awards 2022 Named UPDATE
The inaugural UK Fibre Awards event was held last night, which saw various broadband ISPs and full fibre network builders across ten categories pick up awards for their achievements. Some of the winners included Giganet, which was named ‘Overall Fibre Provider of the Year‘, while G.Network scooped ‘Best Urban Fibre Provider‘.
The event is a new creation that is being backed by telecoms / ICT centric media and event organisation firm BPL Business Media, with CityFibre as the main 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.” Good.
However, much as we’ve previously mentioned, many of the award categories are similar to those that already exist under more established events, such as those from the ISPA and Connected Britain.
Winners of the UK Fibre Awards 2022
Best Rural Fibre Provider
Winner – Wessex Internet
Commended – GiganetBest Urban Fibre Provider
Winner – G.Network
Commended – MS3 NetworksBest Wholesale Fibre Provider
Winner – TalkTalk Wholesale Services
Commended – ITS Technology GroupBest Fibre Marketing Campaign
Winner – Pure Broadband
Commended – GiganetRollout Challenge Buster Award
Winner – Wessex Internet
Commended – HawthorndonBest Fibre Innovation Award
Winner – Mills
Commended – The Fibre Café
Commended – Trenches LawBest Fibre Rollout Supplier Award
Winner – Hawthorndon
Commended – Trenches LawFibre Provider investment award
Winner – CityFibre
Commended – GiganetOverall Fibre Provider of the Year
Winner – Giganet
Commended – GlideServices to Digital Britain Award
Winner – Greg Mesch, CityFibre
UPDATE 10:16am
Good news, the award’s website now appears to have added a page showing the judges.
Andrew Kernahan, Head of Public Affairs, ISPA
Simon Evans, Principal, Cartesian
Simon Meredith, Media Consultant, Channelstar
Will Garside, IT writer and commentator
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The fibre award “industry” is becoming more and more like the movie and gaming ones
Have no objective metrics, get to award products that are not the best blending them with legit ones and at the end there is no trust so people will instead refer to user reviews anyway
But even the movie and TV industries recognise ALL producers unlike these awards which are firmly in the ignore BT, KCOM and Virgin categories. Just fluff for marketing and ignoring the real drivers behind FTTP in the UK.
Not true, example “What is a Woman” is currently at 2500+ user reviews on rotten tomatoes (97% score) and is the most watched movie at home after Top Gun but only one single critic review because the company that produced it has took a stance to stand up against the Hollywood mafia
One look at the Oscars/emmies/british awards for the last few years will tell you that the elites are out of touch with reality
Sad not to see CommunityFibre picking up any awards.