GSM Association Press Releases 2006
GSM Association Awards 2006 - The Winners |
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Stars converge at the National Palace as Barcelona hosts highlight of the GSM year
14th February 2006 - Barcelona - The winners of the 2006 GSM Association Awards were announced tonight at a star-studded Gala Evening at Barcelona's National Palace.
This is eleventh year of the Awards, and the first Gala presentation evening to be held in the Spanish city, new home to the 3GSM World Congress. Co-hosted by Ryan Devlin from MTV's Entertainment Tonight show, and Robert Coren of TelecomTV, the evening set the seal on the arrival of Hollywood at the heart of the mobile world. Guest appearances by screen stars Wesley Snipes and Juliette Lewis, and supermodel Caprice, were followed by R & B sensation Craig David playing an exclusive set for the 850 guests.
"This year's Awards reflect the diversity, the vitality and the changing dynamics of our industry as the content and communications worlds converge. We are at the beginning of a new era of multimedia, entertainment, music, gaming and TV, in which GSM plays a starring role. Our congratulations to the winners and our thanks to everyone who participated." said Rob Conway, CEO of the GSM Association.
The 2006 Awards winners were chosen after a tough two-phase judging process conducted by an international panel of independent industry and subject matter experts, drawn from the academic, analyst, media and entertainment communities.
Intel is once again the Platinum Sponsor for the 2006 Awards, with Nokia as sponsor of the Mobile Entertainment category and Qualcomm sponsor of the Handsets and Devices category. Platinum Media Partners include CNBC Europe, Variety Magazine, Fortune and the Wall Street Journal Europe.
T H E  W I N N E R S
Mobile Innovation Forum
Mobile Innovation Awards
 Winner: Spinvox - Voicemail-to-Text
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Mobile Entertainment Awards
Best Made for Mobile Game
 Winner: I-play - Skipping Stone
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Best Made for Mobile Music Service
 Winner: Hi3G Access AB – 3 Music
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Best Made for Mobile Video Service
 Winner: Tapuz people – BLOGTV
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Highly Commended: CinemaElectric – Portable Hollywood ™ Streaming Video & Download Service
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Best Made for Mobile Sports Infotainment
 Winner: Alcatel – Live Sailing
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Highly Commended: Manchester United Limited – MUmobile Portfolio
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Mobile Application Awards
Best Mobile Enterprise Product or Service
 Winner: iPass – iPass Corporate Access™
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Best Mobile Messaging Service
 Winner: Cognima – ShoZu
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Handsets and Devices Awards
Best GSM Handset or Device
 Winner: Nokia – Nokia 8800
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Best 3GSM Handset or Device
 Winner: Motorola – Motorola RAZR V3x
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Highly Commended: Nokia – Nokia N70
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Marketing and Promotion Award
Best Broadcast Commercial
 Winner: Vodafone Ltd – Vodafone Stop the Clock Campaign
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Mobile in the Community Award
Best Mobile Community Service or Initiative
 Winner: MTN Nigeria Communications Limited – Rural Telephone Project – Phone Lady Initiative
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Highly Commended: PageOne Communications – PageOne Connect – Timely advice for teenage mums-to-be
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Network Products and Solutions Awards
Best Radio Access Product or Service
 Winner: MBO Wireless Inc – AdaptaCell SuperCapacity base station (BTS) using Adaptive Array (AA) software
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Best Network Quality Initiative
 Winner: TMN with Tektronix – TMN’s Customer Centric Service Quality Management (CCSQM) project usingTektronix’Unified Assurance
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Highly Commended: Ditech Communications– Quad Voice Processor (QVP) platform with Voice Quality Assurance™ (VQA™) Release 5 Software
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Best Service Delivery Platform
 Winner: Motricity – Fuel Mobile Content Delivery Platform 4.0
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Best Billing or Customer Care Solution
 Winner: IDEACellular Limited – BILL FLASH – A USSD based Application
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Highly Commended: T-Mobile (UK) Limited – U-Fix
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Best Roaming Product or Service
Winner: Vodafone Group – ‘Vodafone Passport’voice roaming pricing architecture (part of ‘The Vodafone TravelPromise’proposition)
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Highly Commended: Lucent Technologies– Lucent VitalSuite® AAA and VPN Firewall Brick® Enabling Seamless
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Government Leadership Award
 Winner: Islamic Republic of Pakistan
In recognition of Pakistan reaching the fantastic milestone of over 20 million people now connected to mobile communications services, growing rapdily from under 1% mobile penetration in beginning of 2000 to over 13% by the end of 2005. This award was presented during the GSM Association’s Leadership Summit on Monday 13 February.
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Jorma Ollila receives 2006 GSM Association Chairman’s Award
Nokia’s Chairman and CEO earns top industry accolade
 At the eleventh annual Awards event, The GSM Association was delighted to present the 2006 GSM Association Chairman’s Award to Jorma Ollila, Chairman and CEO of Nokia.
Mr Ollila has led Nokia’s transformation into a company that sets the benchmark for GSM mobile communications. He joined Nokia in 1985 and held a variety of key management positions before taking the helm in 1992. Since then he has restructured the former industrial conglomerate and, along with his team, accelerated its growth into the world’s most successful mobile phone company and a leading network infrastructure vendor.
GSM Association Chairman Craig Ehrlich said: “Jorma Ollila has been instrumental in seizing the opportunity of the GSM revolution, and Nokia’s resulting success story is remarkable. Jorma can rightly be regarded as one of the most successful businessmen of his time, an achievement we are delighted to recognize.”
The GSM Association Chairman’s Award was established eleven years ago as a public acknowledgement of outstanding contributions to the development of the GSM standard worldwide. Previous recipients of the GSMA’s prestigious award include Sir Christopher Gent (former CEO of the Vodafone Group),Zhang LiGui (former President of China Mobile), and NTT DoCoMo of Japan.
About the GSM Association
For further information contact:
David Pringle
GSM Association
Tel: +44 795 755 6069
Email:press@3gsmworldcongress.com
Mark Smith
GSM Association
Tel: +44 7850 229724
Email:press@3gsmworldcongress.com
Beth Sharples
Companycare Communications
Tel: +44 7766 333277
Email: beth@companycare.com
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