The ISPA Council will select an individual or
organisation in recognition of their achievements for the
Internet and the Internet industry.
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The finalists for the Internet Hero category
are:-
"For respecting peoples’ browsing privacy by retracting the Beacon service, a system which automatically records user’s online spending habits, by making it an opt-in not opt-out service.”
“For keeping a keen eye on the promotional websites of financial services and warning that they are not fair or clear enough. A quarter of 77 sites reviewed "failed to present information in a fair, clear and not misleading way", the FSA said.”
"For leading the push to increase Internet access speeds, paving the way for services such as high-definition Internet TV."
"For his continued leadership of the IWF and approach to fostering extensive partnerships with the Internet industry, the government and law enforcement agencies to tackle illegal online
content."
"For a decade of support promoting the Internet in the UK Parliament as chairman of the All Party Parliamentary Internet Group since 1997."
The winner is:-
Peter Robbins OBE
QPM, Chief Executive, IWF
About UKFast
As the ISPA’s Best Hosting Provider for three years
running, UKFast
- a dedicated hosting provider keeps many of the UK’s most successful businesses on the
Internet 24/7, 365 days a year. As a specialist
business-to-business ISP delivering high-end dedicated hosting
we are able to boast well-known clients such as Sainsbury’s,
Dollond & Aitchison and Printing.com.
We pride ourselves on always going the extra mile. Our support
team operates as an extension of each client's IT department,
carrying out managed services and maintaining their online
presence. While our focus is on hosting, we also offer clients
complementary services like ADSL, domain registration and DNS
management. In this way we can offer a complete Internet
solution.
Our ongoing technical goal, to create a self-healing network,
has taken huge steps in the last year. In-house developed
load-balancing hardware and sophisticated monitoring systems
allow us to guarantee optimum reliability in a mission
critical environment, vital for most of our clients, who make
money by the second on the Internet.
In addition, all our hosting servers are built by our
engineers from the highest quality components. This means that
clients not only get maximum performance, but the ultimate in
responsive customer care when they speak direct to the
technicians who built their solutions. We’re very proud to
continue working without automated response messages and
achieving our 3 rings and you’re in policy, a rarity within
our industry.
We also offer various value-added services. In line with
market trends we make our podcasting studio available to
clients and offer customised blogging software to extend the
reach of a client’s brand.
Encouraged by our growth we continue to invest in all areas of
the company including million pound upgrades to our already
diverse Network, meaning optimum performance for all clients.
We are proud to affiliate ourselves through partnerships with
industry names, such as Microsoft, Red Hat Linux, Symantec and
the Manchester Chamber of Commerce.
In February 2007, an ISPA spokesperson said, “The judges
agreed that UKFast can cater for the hosting requirements of
any business. It was felt that UKFast can provide good
security and tech support with a solid awareness of the
applications necessary to run a successful business.”
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