Connected Britain Reveals 2022 Broadband Award Winners

The annual Connected Britain Awards 2022 (Total Telecom) event took place last night, which among other things saw B4RN (Broadband for the Rural North) scoop the coveted “Broadband Provider of the Year” award and CityFibre – for the second year running – take home the “Project Rollout Award“.

All of the organisations that entered – spanning across various different categories – were assessed by a large panel of 28 judges, which included key figures from Total Telecom, the UK Government, analyst firms, consultants, universities and various other companies or organisations with industry links.

The winners for 2022 were then finally unveiled at their annual event in London last night, and we’ve summarised the outcome below. Sadly, the winners list doesn’t currently include a useful description of why each winner was chosen, although our regular readers should be able to guess most of them. For example, B4RN is very well known for its community focused rural FTTP builds and Trenches Law has done a lot of work to automate complex wayleaves (legal land access agreements).

Winners of the Connected Britain Awards 2022

B2B Service Provider of the Year Award
WINNER: Pangea Connected
Highly Commended: Giganet

Broadband Provider of the Year Award
WINNER: Broadband for the Rural North (B4RN)

Digital Skills Award
WINNER: BT Skills for Tomorrow
Highly Commended: Good Things Foundation (With JP Morgan)

Enterprise Solution of the Year
WINNER: Nokia, Vodafone UK & Kinected Solutions – Banshee Mobile Radio

Project Rollout Award
WINNER: CityFibre

The Access Innovation Award
WINNER: 5G RuralDorset

The Barrier Removal Award
WINNER: Trenches Law

The Community Improvement Award
WINNER: Broadband for the Rural North (B4RN)

The Full Fibre ISP Innovation Award
WINNER: Wessex Internet

The Industrial Innovation Award
WINNER: South Gloucestershire Council & Toshiba Europe Ltd, Bristol Research and Innovation Lab

The Smart Places Award
WINNER: South London Partnership InnOvaTe project – with DORIS care

The Sustainability Award
WINNER: BT’s ECO Programme

Startup of the Year Award
WINNER: Curvalux