Be won the ‘Best Sumo Consumer Broadband’ ISP at last nights ISPA Awards – the internet event of the year. Staged at the Marriot Hotel in London, Be picked up the award for the ISP which provides the best over 2MB broadband service to consumers.
“We are delighted to receive this award in our launch year and it certainly makes the hard work worthwhile,” said Boris Ivanovic, Be Co-founder and Director. “We still have a lot to do and are busy with our national expansion plans. Manchester and Birmingham will be the first cities outside of London to benefit from Be’s award-winning service.”
Since launching last summer, Be has continually raised the bar for the UK broadband market by offering the latest technology, which allows the fastest broadband speeds currently available, at highly competitive prices. Starting from just £14 per month and every member receiving a free ‘Be Box’ wireless router, Be have the most competitive broadband products in the UK.
“The judges felt that Be Unlimited were pushing the broadband boundaries by offering consumers an innovative service through ADSL 2+ technology which aims to reach speeds of up to 24MB,” said an ISPA spokesperson. “Be Unlimited delivers great higher speeds to its users and was felt to be an interesting challenger to the big boys.”
The ISPA Awards are renowned for their independence and research partner Epitiro spent three months testing all of the entrant’s services. Epitiro's ISP-I ("eyespy") system compares ISP performance from a variety of sites across the UK, external to each providers network. ISP-I constantly monitors performance by continually connecting to each ISP, every 15-30 minutes, and capturing performance metrics such as time to connect, connection speed, upload, download speed, ping time, DNS look-up time and e-mail.
