ISPA Award nominees announced

The nominees for this year's Internet Service Providers' Association (ISPA) Awards have been announced.

Orange is up for three awards with O2 and Plusnet in the running for two.

ISPA Awards 2009: Nominees

The Best Consumer Fixed Broadband Award will be between Plusnet, O2, Virgin Media, Newnet and Eclipse.

The same ISPs, with the exception of Eclipse, will fight it out with Be Broadband for the Best Consumer Customer Service gong.

Orange, Virgin Media and Vodafone will vie for the Best Consumer Mobile Broadband prize and the Best Dial-Up Award is between Exa Networks, Firenet and Supanet.

Nominet, Orange, Sky, South West Internet CiC and UKFast.Net are all up for the Corporate Social Responsibility Award, given to the company whose policies have had the most positive effect on society.

As yet, the nominees for the Internet Hero and the Internet Villain have not been announced.

As with the 2008 ISPA Awards, Web User Editor Claire Woffenden will be among the judges.

The award ceremony will take place on 9 July 2009 at the Grosvenor Marriott Hotel in London.