VoIP Providers were announced in Parliament today at the 2nd
annual ITSPA Awards. The ceremony was attended by over a hundred people
including parliamentarians, civil servants and industry representatives. It took place in
the Strangers Dining Room of the House of Commons and was hosted by Andrew
Miller MP. The awards were presented in 5 categories, representing different areas
of the VoIP and Unified Communications industry.
The Award Winners were:
Best Consumer VoIP – Vonage V-Plan 4i
Best Business ITSP (SMEs) – iNet Telecoms (Voipfone)
Best Business ITSP (Large Enterprise) – ntl:Telewest
Best VoIP Hardware – Polycom VVX (TM)1500 D
Most Innovative VoIP Product – BT IP Exchange
Those Highly Commended were:
Best Business ITSP category (SMEs) - Telappliant
Best Business ITSP (Large Enterprise) – Ipitomi Ltd & Voicenet Solutions
Best VoIP Hardware – Nortel: (CS 2000)
Most Innovative VoIP Product – Snom 870
This year, technical testing by Epitiro was introduced for two of the categories - Best
Consumer VoIP and Best Business ITSP (SME). Entrants for all categories also had
to complete written entry forms that were independently reviewed by the ITSPA
Awards judges.
Eli Katz, ITSPA Chairman, said, “I would like to congratulate the 2009 ITSPA Awards
winners and finalists. It has been excellent to follow on from the inaugural awards last
year with an equally competitive nomination process in 2009. Despite the tough
economic conditions, residential and business customers are increasingly becoming
more aware of the opportunities that VoIP can offer including cost, flexibility and new
multi-media services. The testing regime again showed that VoIP can rival the PSTN
for voice quality and reliability”.
Linus Surguy, Technical Director of Magrathea, said, “Magrathea is proud to again be
associated with the ITSPA Awards and would like to congratulate all the winners this
year. It has been encouraging to see such wide participation from so many
companies, indicating the competitive nature of the VoIP market. It is important that
we recognise the success stories of the industry and we hope this will continue”.
Iain Wood, Head of Marketing from Epitiro, said, “We welcomed the challenge of
testing some of the award categories and were impressed with the quality and
reliability of all the entrants. We look forward to developing this process further in the
future and testing more of the award categories next year.”
The 2009 ITSPA Awards were open to all those in the VoIP space, including those
who were not members of ITSPA.
The full press release is here
