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Wireless broadband ISP Airband<\/a> has been named as the ‘Best Small Business<\/em>‘ for the Midlands region and they also scooped up the national ‘Best Entrepreneur of the Year<\/em>‘ accolade as part of this year’s National Family Business Awards 2018<\/a> (formerly the Red Ribbon Awards).<\/p>\n

The awards, which are organised and hosted by Family Business Place, assessed each nominee via a 15 minute Skype interview before selecting a short-list of potential finalists. After that the winners were chosen by a judging panel, although we couldn’t find much information to clarify who sits on the panel or precisely what they look for in each finalist.<\/p>\n

Otherwise the event itself took place on 14th July 2018 at Wembley Stadium in London. Airband<\/a> was the only UK ISP to win an award on the night.<\/p>\n

Red Peel, Airband<\/a> Director, said:<\/strong><\/p>\n

“We\u2019re delighted to have won these prestigious National Family Business Awards. In the post-Brexit world, tech-focused innovation is even more of a game-changer for British business. Broadband is regarded as the fourth utility service but large swathes of rural areas have poor or intermittent service.<\/p>\n

Robust rural broadband needs a blend of different technologies and we\u2019re proud to be playing our part in creating the best possible infrastructure for rural broadband, using the most innovative and effective solutions.<\/p>\n

Going forwards, I think the focus should be not just on rolling out faster services, but also about working out why people with faster options haven’t upgraded”.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The PR blurb notes that the company, which was founded in 2009 by husband and wife team Redmond and Miranda Peel, has over the past 3 years delivered “superfast broadband<\/em>” projects worth \u00a323m to at least 34,000 homes and businesses in rural areas across England and Wales (e.g. the Connecting Devon and Somerset contract). The win follows recent setbacks with a couple of mast deployments (here<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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