KPNQwest (Nasdaq: KQIP), the leading pan-European data communications and hosting company, has received the Unified Communications International Award in recognition for Best Data Centre facilities in Europe.

The award was presented to KPNQwest last night at the UCI Expo Europe, held in the Austria Centre, Vienna. The award, which was presented by the event sponsors, PBI Media, underscores KPNQwest's leadership position in having the most advanced, state-of-the-art facilities for supporting E-Business across Europe. A recent study by the Yankee Group identified KPNQwest as the clear market leader for content delivery, streaming, professional hosting services and geographical coverage.

Since the CyberCentres are built on top of the EuroRings(TM) network, they provide customers full network redundancies and unrivalled bandwidth to scale with their business requirements. Through these facilities customers enjoy services from co-location, basic and dedicated hosting to highly customised Application Infrastructure Provision (AIP) solutions, which include network services and distributed applications.

This award is a major endorsement of our ability to provide the best-in-class network-based hosting solution which combining the speed, power and redundancy of the EuroRings(TM) with the state-of-the-art CyberCentres," said Jack McMaster, President and CEO of KPNQwest. "This offer provides the most optimal environment for deploying a scalable range of hosted solutions to support our customers' business requirements."