HELLO & WELCOME

[WelshPaul]

The winners of the 9th annual ITSPA Awards, have just been announced. The Awards, which celebrate innovation and best practice across the next generations industry, were held at the Tower of London. The awards were presented across nine categories, reflecting the range and scope of the VoIP and Unified Communications industry, and for the first time a Best ITSP Reseller Award was included. The winners, highly commended entrants and finalists are listed below.

Award Winners:

• Best Business ITSP (Small Enterprise): Hello Telecom
• Best Business ITSP (Medium Enterprise): VTSL
• Best Business ITSP (Corporate): NFON
• Best VoIP CPE: Panasonic Multi Cell SIP DECT KX-UDS124/UDT1x1 System
• Best VoIP Infrastructure: Gamma SIP Trunking Service
• Best VoIP Innovation: Edgewater Networks Network Edge Orchestration
• Best ITSP Reseller: Arrow Business Communications
• ITSPA Members' Pick: …
• ITSPA Champion: Peter Cox

Highly Commended:

• Best Business ITSP (Small Enterprise): Voipfone
• Best Business ITSP (Medium Enterprise): Orbtalk
• Best VoIP CPE: Snom D715 Desk Telephone
• Best VoIP Infrastructure: aql
• Best VoIP Innovation: Vonage Nexmo Voice API Platform
• Best ITSP Reseller: Sprint Convergence - Horizon

Eli Katz, the Chair of ITSPA, said “A special congratulations must go to all the winners and to those companies who were highly commended at this year’s Awards. This year’s Awards were particularly competitive, emphasising the continued growth and diversity of the entire next generations communications sector. The market is continuing to mature and develop at pace and, with the General Election just a month away, the Brexit negotiations commencing and the reform of Openreach being implemented – 2017 is proving to be a year of fundamental importance to our industry in many ways. We have also set up dedicated task forces on the issues of business switching and cyber crime and will continue to liaise with policymakers to ensure our members’ views are heard and listened to. As ever, we are keen for companies across the next generations communications industry to join ITSPA and get involved in our numerous work streams.”

Read the full announcement here: https://www.itspa.org.uk/press/2017-its ... announced/

[bernyclarke]

Interesting that Hello Telecom has won the Best Business ITSP (Small Enterprise) award. I can't find any reviews for them online and there appears to be no way of signing up for their "Hosted Business Telephony" service on their website.

[CJT-80]

hello there bernyclarke

They does seem strange, I guess they may be a very small (Business) enterprise....

Regarding signing up, should you want to, it appears to be by phone or e-mail.... equally odd..