PlusNet wins the Best Consumer ISP Award

The ISPA Awards 2008 were announced on last Friday. The Internet Service Providers Association, in association with Epitro, selects the top five out of the several nominees and the winners in each category are honoured for the their contribution to the growth of relevant area.

Here is the list of winners of ISPA Awards 2008:

Category Winner

Best Consumer Broadband :  NewNet

Best Consumer ISP  :PlusNet

Best Business Broadband : Datanet

Best Business ISP : Eclipse Internet

Best Dial Up : Waitrose

Best Wireless ISP : Vodafone

Best Consumer Email : Entanet

Best Business Email : Eclipse Internet

Best Streaming : Astream

Best Portal : Bt.yahoo.com

Best Dedicated Hosting : UKFast

Best Shared Hosting :  Namesco

Best Internet Telephony : Entanet

ISPA has given away the following special awards to the winners and the list is as follows:

Internet Hero Award was won by Peter Robbins OBE QPM, Chief Executive, IWF for playing an important role in the enforcement of actions against illegal downloading from websites.

Richard Swetenham – Head of the eContent and Safer Internet Unit at the European Commission won this year’s Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) Award for his outstanding role in drafting first Communication on illegal and harmful Internet content.

The Internet Villain Award was won by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) for failing to take the protection of people’s personal data seriously and highlighting bad practice in protecting data by losing computer disks containing confidential details of 25 million child benefit recipients.

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