ITSPA announces VoIP award finalists

The Internet Telephony Services Providers’ Association (ITSPA) has announced the finalists for the 2008 ITSPA Awards.

The awards, which recognise excellence in the UK VoIP and Unified Communications sector, will be held at the House of Commons on 11 December 2008.

After assessing the UK’s top VoIP products and services, on the basis of reliability, user-friendliness, design, innovation, price and value for money, the following finalists were selected.

Best Consumer VoIP Award Finalists:
BT – BT Broadband Talk
Telappliant – VoIPtalk
Tesco – Tesco Internet Phone
Truphone – Truphone Anywhere
Vonage – V-Plan
(This category was sponsored by Digitalk)

Best Business ITSP Award Finalists:
BT
Entanet International Ltd
Gradwell Dotcom
Hipcom
Inclarity
Inet Telecoms Ltd (Voipfone)
Viatel
(Category sponsored By Magrathea)

Best Unified Solution Finalists:
Ciptex Solutions
ShoreTel
Telappliant
Timico
Voicenet Solutions
(Category sponsored by BT)

Best VoIP Hardware Finalists:
BT – BT Home Hub
Cisco – Cisco Voice System
Drogon Systems – DSX 10
Gigaset Communications UK Limited (previously Siemens home & office communications)– Gigaset S685IP
IPcortex – VoIPCortex IP PBX
Vegastream – Vegastream VOIP Gateways
(Category sponsored by Timico)

Best Innovation Finalists:
Go Hello
Nortel – AS5200/Advanced Application Engine
Aql – aql SMS relay
Voipex Telecoms Technology Ltd – ViBE
Voxbone SA – Inbound Services
Voxhub – Voxhub Emergency Services
(Category sponsored by XConnect)

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