The fourth annual UK Fibre Awards event was held yesterday in London, which saw a number of broadband ISPs and full fibre network builders across several categories pick up awards for their achievements. Some of this year’s winners included Gigaclear for ‘Best Rural Fibre Provider’ and MS3 for ‘Best Overall Fibre Provider’ (they scooped several wins).
The event, which appears to be quite similar to many existing industry award ceremonies (e.g. the annual ISPA and Connected Britain awards), is currently being backed by telecoms / ICT centric media and event organisation firm BPL Business Media.
The winners for each category were chosen by a judging panel of seven industry and IT experts (here), including various senior managers, analysts and so forth. But as with previous years, there’s not much to reflect the consumer perspective in this group, and no technical testing was performed.
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Winners of the UK Fibre Awards 2025
Best Rural Fibre Provider
Best Urban Fibre Provider
Best Wholesale Fibre Provider
MS3
Best ISP Partnership Award
MS3
Rollout Challenge Buster Award
4 Fibre Limited
Take-Up Champion Award
Lightning Fibre
Fibre Sector Innovation (Deployment) Award
Deepomatic
Fibre Sector Innovation (Support Service) Award
Totalmobile Ltd
Best Vendor/Supplier Award
4 Fibre Limited
Best Business Services to the Fibre Community
NETS International Group
M&A/ Investment Award
Best Sustainability Programme
BT Wholesale
Digital Inclusivity Award
Community Champion Award
Best Company to Work for
Vorboss
Best Training Development & Recruitment Programme
The Institute of Telecommunications Professionals (ITP)
Marketing Team of the Year Award
KCOM
Sales/Commercial Team of the Year Award
Lightning Fibre
Service Delivery Team of the Year
NETS International Group
Executive Leadership Team of the Year Award
Overall Fibre Provider of the Year
MS3
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They have more award ceremonies than Tinsel Town.
What about an award for sharing of infrastructure?
What about an award for adhering to best practise, sharing of infrastructure or going underground?
What about an award for overbuild of infrastructure in urban areas ?
What about a booby award for the most fines received for breaches in health and safety of works putting pedestrians, traffic and workers at risk ?
I’m certainly sure there are many of the new network infrastructure builders that would come last in the first two awards and would be front runners or winners of the last two categories
I guess Mark didn’t pay enough to get the “Best independent ISP review site” award.
And the award from Most Premises Passed goes to… Openr… Oops, sorry, that wasn’t the point of the awards was it?
“Digital Inclusivity Award”?
What fresh hell is this?