The Connected Britain Awards recognise the most significant and innovative organisations, solutions, and programmes that are shaping Britain’s digital future. Below you will find the shortlisted entrants for this year’s Awards.
This year’s awards promise to be the best yet with fourteen categories, four of which are new for 2022 – including for the first time a Startup Award open to the disruptive organisations displaying their innovative solutions in the Connected Britain Startup Village.
To further enhance this year’s awards, we have strengthened the judging panel and now have twenty-five recognisable and expert faces assessing the entries, including the likes of Lorne Mitchell (Objective Designers), Karen Egan of EndersAnalysis, and Point Topics Oli Johnson.
The awards are open to organisations from across the connectivity landscape, including operators and altnets, local government, third sector and suppliers to the industry. In 2021 winners included CityFibre, Sunderland City Council, 5G Rural Dorset and ITS Technology Group – you can see the full list of winners here.
B2B Service Provider of the Year Award
BT Enterprise Managed Service
Comtec
Giganet
Glide Group
Netgem – Netgem TV managed service for ISPs
Pangea Connected
Broadband Provider of the Year Award
Broadband for the Rural North (B4RN)
Community Fibre Ltd
Giganet
Hyperoptic
Ogi
Zzoomm Full Fibre broadband
Digital Skills Award
BT Skills for Tomorrow
CityFibre
Good Things Foundation
Good Things Foundation – Nobody in the Dark
The Lloyds Banking Group Digital Helpline – in partnership with We Are Digital
Three Discovery
West Mercia Rural 5G project team
Enterprise Solution of the Year
Axiros GmbH
DexGreen Ltd – Virtual Buddy Artificial Intelligence Fault-Finder
FarrPoint. Mobile Coverage Mapping Solution
Fibrus Networks Ltd
Nokia, Vodafone UK & Kinected Solutions – Banshee Mobile Radio
Openreach, The University of Suffolk and Nokia Corporation
PSI Mobile – Implementation of multichannel automation processes
RouteThis Resolve
Vitruvi™ Software
Project Rollout Award
CityFibre
Mid Sussex District Council / Brighton and Hove City Council and West Sussex County Council – Digital Mid Sussex Connected Region
Netomnia Ltd
Ogi
Wessex Internet
The Access Innovation Award
5G RuralDorset
Infinera, XR Optics
Pangea Connected – Connecting 4,500 critical street furniture endpoints in urban notspots
Trench Networks Limited – Outpost Hybrid Mobile
WeLink Communications (UK) Ltd – Wireless Gigabit Broadband
West Mercia Rural 5G
WHP Telecoms
The Barrier Removal Award
BDUK, National Parks, Openreach & Trenches Law – National Parks Accord
Powys County Council
Trenches Law
Wessex Internet
West Mercia Rural 5G and Airband
The Community Improvement Award
4th Utility
Broadband for the Rural North (B4RN)
Community Fibre Ltd
Gigaclear
Westminster City Council and Community Fibre – Community Fibre Digital Ambassadors in Westminster
WHP Telecoms
The Full Fibre ISP Innovation Award
Giganet
Hyperoptic
Wessex Internet
The Industrial Innovation Award
5G RuralDorset
Keltech IoT
Pangea Connected – Migrating 4,500 critical street furniture endpoints before the PSTN switch-off
South Gloucestershire Council & Toshiba Europe Ltd, Bristol Research and Innovation Lab
The Smart Places Award
Dorset Council
Greater Manchester Combined Authority – Digital Exclusion Risk Index
Nottinghamshire County Council, Pioneering 5G in Sherwood Forest
South London Partnership InnOvaTe project – with DORIS care
Sunderland City Council and BAI Communications: Smarter Together
The Sustainability Award
BT’s ECO Programme
CityFibre
Glide Group
Keltech IoT the product name Dual Distributed Network
LightSpeed Broadband Ltd
Startup of the Year Award
The shortlisted finalists in this category will pitch their business live to the judges on the Startup Stage at Connected Britain!
ANGOKA
Curvalux
Entrust Smart Home Microgrid
Grayscale AI
Neuron Innovations
PLINX
PRAEFERRE
Spark Tools
Streetwave
Teragence