Eclipse Internet was the star of the show last night at the Internet Service Provider's Association (ISPA) awards.

Eclipse were praised after winning the Best Consumer Broadband category partly due to it's 'zero-touch' automated order processing service and rapid delivery of services, the judges were "were impressed with Eclipse's... rapid delivery of its broadband services. Of particular note were Eclipse's efforts to provide uncapped broadband,"

Another ISP praised was Be, who only yesterday announced it's 500th exchange unbundled, "for pushing the limits of broadband capabilities in a consumer market by being bold and offering up to 24Mbps broadband."

The ever popular awards for the Heroes and Villains of the internet went to Vodafone's Annie Mullins "for her work with the Home Office Task Force on Protection of Children on the internet and the European Union's Safer Internet Programme." and the villain was  EU and European Commissioner Vivianne Reading, "for foisting the most arcane set of rules yet seen for prior registration of .eu domains,".

A full list of the winners and losers is at the ISPA website. More next year.....