24 Jun 2008 - Zimo is the FCS Fixed Service Provider of the Year

London 24 June 2008: The FCS has announced that the accolade of the Fixed Service Provider of the Year 2008 has been awarded to Zimo Communications Ltd.

 

The chairman of the judging panel Sam Dawkins of Club Communications on announcing the winner at the FCS AGM said: “The judges were impressed with the diversity of the entries submitted which indicates the creativity that exists in the competitive fixed telecoms sector. Innovation is one of the key criteria the judges were looking for and the entry from Zimo, which provides a completely new approach to automating charitable donations, demonstrated a level of innovative thinking that led the judges to a unanimous decision.

”We are also pleased to make a runner up award to TM Solutions Ltd whose WLR3 platform is delivering quality for the channel in this key area”

On receiving the award from Amy Chalfen from the award sponsor Openreach Kieron James, CEO of Zimo Communications Ltd said, “We were runners-up when the award was first introduced in 2006, so we’re absolutely delighted that two years of technical innovation and commitment to the highest levels of customer service have been recognised by the judges. We have attracted some incredibly talented individuals to Zimo over the last three years and this award is a tribute to their tremendous work in developing world-class products”

Amy Chalfen, Director of Equivalence, Regulatory and Public Affairs at Openreach said that Openreach was pleased to be associated with the FCS award which celebrates excellence within the service provider customer base of Openreach.

FCS Awards are presented annually in four categories: business radio, mobile equipment installer, fixed service provider and VoIP.

The judging panel for the 2008 award was:
Sam Dawkins - Club Communications- chairman
Ashleigh Potter - Consultant,
Julie Oakley - Redstone,
John Ledingham-Smith - Excel Telecom
Michael Eagle - FCS.

Zimo Communications is based in Cheadle Hulme – www.zimo.co.uk