Connected Britain Awards 2025

Winners and Shortlist 2025

Congratulations to all our finalists and winners!

Winners highlighted in bold below.

The Industrial Innovation Award

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

Elevate
F&W Networks
NETS International Group

Digital Council of the Year

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

The Barrier Removal Award

Ayrshire 5GIR Project
Glasgow City Council - Highly Commended
Mova – On behalf of EE, Three, VMO2 & Vodafone (Shared Rural Network programme)
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

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

The Smart Places Award

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

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

The Sustainability Award

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

CityFibre - Highly Commended
Fibrus
NETS International Group
Openreach

The Wireless Innovation Award

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

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

Broadband Provider of the Year

Fibrus Broadband
Highland Broadband
Lightning Fibre

Enterprise Solution of the Year

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

The Rising Star Award

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
Will Plant – Cambridgeshire County Council
Zak Thomson – Emtelle

Startup Award

HalleyX
Net AI
NodeQ
Qualoo
Sitehop
UTS - Highly Commended

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