May 6, 2026

Metricell is proud to announce that we have received a 2026 King’s Award for Enterprise in Innovation!
This marks our fourth Enterprise Award, following previous Queen’s Awards for Enterprise in 2012, 2016 and 2020, and our first King’s Award.
The recognition celebrates our Automated Network Investigator (ANI) technology, while also acknowledging the wider culture of problem-solving, collaboration and progress that drives us forward. Innovation has always been central to how we operate, and this award reinforces our commitment to developing technology that helps improve connectivity experiences around the world.
The King’s Awards for Enterprise are among the UK’s most prestigious business honours, recognising outstanding achievement across International Trade, Innovation, Sustainability and Promoting Opportunity. In 2026, 185 businesses across the UK were recognised, including 52 in the Innovation category.
This year is also a significant milestone for the Awards, which celebrate 60 years since the first honours were conferred in 1966. Since then, more than 8,000 UK businesses have been recognised.
We are delighted to share this achievement with our team, customers and partners, and look forward to continuing to deliver innovative solutions that support better connected experiences for all.
Media coverage:

July 31, 2026
Public frontier models have made powerful AI capabilities widely available. But this does not give an AI agent working knowledge of a telecoms network or the operator’s processes, nor does it teach the agent how individual operational teams make decisions.

July 22, 2026
The shift to AI-native operations begins by designing telecoms environments that agents can understand. When network data is centalised and contextualised, AI can begin delivering real value.

July 9, 2026
In many cases, operators already possess the information needed to improve decisions. The challenge is connecting it across the organisation so that its full value can be realised.