GSM Association Awards 2006 – The Winners

T H E W I N N E R S

Mobile Innovation Forum
Mobile Innovation Awards
Winner: Spinvox - Voicemail-to-Text

Mobile Entertainment Awards
Best Made for Mobile Game
Winner: I-play - Skipping Stone

Best Made for Mobile Music Service
Winner: Hi3G Access AB – 3 Music

Best Made for Mobile Video Service
Winner: Tapuz people – BLOGTV
Highly Commended: CinemaElectric – Portable Hollywood ™ Streaming Video & Download Service

Best Made for Mobile Sports Infotainment
Winner: Alcatel – Live Sailing
Highly Commended: Manchester United Limited – MUmobile Portfolio

Mobile Application Awards
Best Mobile Enterprise Product or Service
Winner: iPass – iPass Corporate Access™

Best Mobile Messaging Service
Winner: Cognima – ShoZu

Handsets and Devices Awards
Best GSM Handset or Device
Winner: Nokia – Nokia 8800

Best 3GSM Handset or Device
Winner: Motorola – Motorola RAZR V3x
Highly Commended: Nokia – Nokia N70

Marketing and Promotion Award
Best Broadcast Commercial
Winner: Vodafone Ltd – Vodafone Stop the Clock Campaign

Mobile in the Community Award
Best Mobile Community Service or Initiative
Winner: MTN Nigeria Communications Limited – Rural Telephone Project – Phone Lady Initiative
Highly Commended: PageOne Communications – PageOne Connect – Timely advice for teenage mums-to-be

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

Best Network Quality Initiative
Winner: TMN with Tektronix – TMN’s Customer Centric Service Quality Management (CCSQM) project usingTektronix’Unified Assurance
Highly Commended: Ditech Communications– Quad Voice Processor (QVP) platform with Voice Quality Assurance™ (VQA™) Release 5 Software

Best Service Delivery Platform
Winner: Motricity – Fuel Mobile Content Delivery Platform 4.0

est Billing or Customer Care Solution
IDEAWinner: IDEACellular Limited – BILL FLASH – A USSD based Application
Highly Commended: T-Mobile (UK) Limited – U-Fix

Best Roaming Product or Service
VodafoneWinner: Vodafone Group – ‘Vodafone Passport’voice roaming pricing architecture (part of ‘The Vodafone TravelPromise’proposition)
Highly Commended: Lucent Technologies– Lucent VitalSuite® AAA and VPN Firewall Brick® Enabling Seamless

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.

orma Ollila receives 2006 GSM Association Chairman’s Award

Nokia’s Chairman and CEO earns top industry accolade

Jorma Ollila - Nokia CEO & ChairmanAt 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.