AWARD WINNERS 2025

Congratulations to all our 2025 finalists and winners!

The Industrial Innovation Award

WINNER: Ayrshire 5GIR Project with Anderson Stewart Castings
AWTG - England’s Connected Heartland (ECH) Project
Brady - BradyVoice
INNO Instrument - M9+ Fusion Splicer with View Pro Manager
Mills Ltd - Mills PSP Pole Tensioner
SkillsBase and Openreach - Cable Location Tool

B2B Service Provider of the Year

WINNER: NETS International Group
Elevate
F&W Networks

Digital Council of the Year

WINNER: Coventry City Council
Highly Commended : Fylde Council
Glasgow City Council
North Ayrshire Council
Worcestershire County Council (NetworkonWheels)

The Barrier Removal Award

WINNER: Mova – On behalf of EE, Three, VMO2 & Vodafone (Shared Rural Network programme)
Highly Commended : Glasgow City Council
Ayrshire 5GIR Project
Openreach PIA Product
SCONDA Consortium (AWTG, Accenture, Freshwave, Mavenir, PI Works, Scotland 5G Centre, Three, University of Glasgow, University of Surrey)
WM5G – Simplifi: Unlocking Barriers to Accelerated Connectivity Deployment

Digital Skills Award

WINNER: Three UK - Three Discovery - Empowering in Education
Highly commended : Liverpool City Region Combined Authority - Digital Inclusion Initiative
marXact: UNI-Complete
NetoAI Solutions Ltd - TSLAM, T-VEC, NetBench
Norfolk County Council - Tech Skills for Life
TMT First - Digital Device Repair Technician Apprenticeship

The Smart Places Award

WINNER: Cambridgeshire CORE HDD Consortium (Cambridgeshire County Council, AWTG, Benetel, Ontix, Gooii, Wolfram, University of Surrey & University of Cambridge)
Coventry City Council
North Ayrshire Council

The Access Innovation Award

WINNER: Openreach - Baltasound, Isle of Unst, Shetland
Highly Commended : Dorset Council: Connected Steam Train
Calix Intelligent Access
Tarana Wireless - Gigabit 1 (G1) Platform
The Borderlands 5GIR Programme

The Sustainability Award

WINNER: BT Group – Networks Data Centre Optimisation Programme
Comex 2000 (UK) Ltd
F&W Networks
SCONDA Consortium (AWTG, Accenture, Freshwave, Mavenir, PI Works, Scotland 5G Centre, Three, University of Glasgow, University of Surrey)
STL – Eco-labelled Optical Fibre Cables
TXO – i-TRAC Network Asset Management Platform

Project Rollout Award

WINNER: Fibrus
Highly Commended : CityFibre
NETS International Group
Openreach

The Wireless Innovation Award

WINNER: Airband Community Internet
Alpha Wireless – Fusion Streetworks Platform AW4032
Elevate – Point-to-point Rooftop Wireless Dedicated Business Internet
VMO2 + Mavenir – Mobile oRAN for High Demand Density
Weblib – Ucopia
Wireless Coverage – WISDM SaaS Product

Community Improvement Award

WINNER: Three UK – Free Skills Training
Coventry City Council – #CovConnects Programme
Digital Poverty Alliance & Currys – Tech4Families
Liverpool City Region – Digital Inclusion Initiative
Quickline – Cones & Rural Broadband Book
Space East
Wigan Council – Tech Time: On Tour
WM5G + Wolverhampton, Coventry, Birmingham Councils

Broadband Provider of the Year

WINNER: Lightning Fibre
Fibrus Broadband
Highland Broadband

Enterprise Solution of the Year

WINNER: Freshwave – Omni Network on the ANDREW RP5000
Deepomatic
IQGeo – Network Manager Telecom
Lifemote – SelfCare
Sonalake – SwitchedOn Fibre
TRANSATEL – Ubigi for Business

The Rising Star Award

WINNER: Will Plant – Cambridgeshire County Council
Franck Courbon – Ethicronics
Haseeb Ahmed – NETS International
Hayley O'Brien – CJ Founds Associates
Julia O'Toole – MyCena Security Solutions
Laura Jenkins – Swansea Council
Matthew Izatt-Lowry – FarrPoint
Natalie Jubb – Digital Poverty Alliance
Shuja Ansari – University of Glasgow - Retrofit Futures
Zak Thomson – Emtelle

Startup Award

WINNER: NodeQ
HalleyX
Net AI
Qualoo
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