Topic: Zen Internet

Zen Internet has revealed its plans to move to a new HQ building early in 2008, and with it the possibility of adding more staff to it's growing numbers.

The ISP had planned to move to larger premises in 2010, but due to rapid growth they have been forced to rethink the timetable as Zen staff are now spilt between three sites. The move will being all of  Zen's current 260 staff under one  roof, and provide an additional 150,000 sq ft of high quality office space.

It's demonstrating its commitment to remain in Rochdale, the town where it was founded, and is hopeful that a grant will be awarded to enable the move to Kingsway Business Park to go ahead.

Zen Internet gained a fourth PC Pro Award for Best Broadband ISP at the Science Museum in London last night.

The awards are compiled from readers of PC Pro magazine who voted on their broadband experiences from the UK's ISPs.

With all the talk of a general election, Zen Internet may have some inside information on the subject.

The ISP covered the Internet connectivity for some of the leading newspaper groups present at the recent political party conferences. For the second year running, Express Newspapers and Telegraph Media Group used Zen to set up broadband access tp remote offices for their political teams.

No not the ISP itself! but Zen Internet are supporting local Rochdale twins, Ruth and Lucy Walczak in their bid to be part of an Olympic rowing team.

The girls needed funds to buy a new boat for training, and following the sponsorship from the Rochdale based company they have decided to name the boat Zen.
The twins, who are based at Hollingworth Lake Rowing Club, are part of the under 23 GB squad and have won multiple gold medals from the World Junior Championship 2006 for Lucy and the European Championship for Ruth that same year.

It's nice to see ISPs giving a helping hand to Britain's hopefuls.

Zen Internet today have announced the launch of Zen Broadband Voice, a VoIP sevice for Zen broadband customers.

The package includes 1000 minutes of calls to UK landlines for £4.99 (inc VAT) per month, whilst calls to other Zen Broadband Voice users and calls to Zen Internet are free of charge.

To use the service, customers must have a Zen Broadband account and are advised to use a softphone or Zen’s recommended hardware. As an introductory offer a Speedtouch 780WL wireless router with integrated analogue telephone adaptor is available at a discounted rate.

Zen have launched IP VPN which offers a secure, reliable way for organisations looking to connect offices, remote workers and partners.

Customers can access a dedicated IP VPN using Zen’s services including ADSL broadband, SDSL or ZenDirect leased circuits. As these are private circuits they offer advanced protection from external threats as they cannot be directly reached from the public Internet. Internet access to the IP VPN can also be included and is secured by a Managed Fortigate UTM firewall.

Sometimes it can be hard for Mac users in a Windows based world, but all is not lost if you are looking for an ISP.

Zen Internet was announced as 'Best Mac-Friendly ISP' at the Macworld Awards, held at the Gibson Hall in London last night. The award was the result of nominations from Macworld readers and recognise the products and vendors which have made an impact in the Mac industry.

Zen has gained a first class position in the field of Mac Support with the implementation of a dedicated Apple Mac Support Team. Apple Macs users of Zen Internet-based services can find technical advisors, who have the necessary knowledge and are aware of the latest developments in the Mac world.

Zen Internet have been successful in the PC Advisor Reader Awards 2007 with a handful of awards.

The Rochdale ISP picked up the 'Most reliable ISP', 'Best small ISP' and gained the 'Customer service' awards of the 'Best Buy Broadband' survey, conducted by PC Advisor to find out what customers really think about their broadband service.

Zen Internet have been stressing their commitment to always "focus on reliability and excellent service levels."

This comes after Zen being commended by a The Sunday Times report into ISP satisfaction levels, which saw Zen come out top with 18/20 while TalkTalk trailed in with 9/20. This follows it's most award as being the PC Pro Award for Best Broadband ISP 2006, the third time in a row the company had been awarded this.

It's good to see providers getting praise for a positive attitude rather than being in the spotlight for poor customer service.

Zen Internet will be providing broadband connections for the Maplins UK Snooker Championship at the Barbican Centre in York which runs from the 4th December until the final on 17th December.

The two Office broadband connections provided by Zen are required for the purposes of offering a high speed internet connection to the media personnel situated in the media centre, allowing them to release their event coverage articles with the minimal delay and for the provision of a real-time livescores feed to the World Snooker website. In addition the connections offer the tournament staff a link to their head office for email and data connectivity.