Global Telecoms Business has announced the winners of its 2008 Innovation Awards.
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In a glittering ceremony at the Sheraton Park Lane hotel in London, the editor, Alan Burkitt-Gray, presented awards to some of the most innovative projects in the industry.
"Congratulations to all the award winners," said Burkitt-Gray. "The industry is seeing a wave of innovation which is making a huge difference — to the companies working in the industry and to all of us in business and as consumers. They are making such a difference to the world. We want to celebrate what they are doing."
Nominations for the awards came from readers of Global Telecoms Business magazine, which is published for senior executives in the industry worldwide. "These awards are for the most innovative projects," said Burkitt-Gray.
In addition one individual and one organisation were presented with Editor's Awards.
Paul Reynolds, former CEO of BT Wholesale and now CEO of Telecom New Zealand, was praised as someone who "has played a huge role in one of the most daring transformations in the telecoms industry in the past few years — and now he's moved to New Zealand to do it all again".
The first winner of Global Telecoms Business's Telecommunications in the World award was Télécoms san Frontières, a charitable organisation which flies telecommunications equipment and skilled staff into disaster areas. The award was accepted on behalf of TSF by Monique Lanne-Petit, the co-founder.
The award winners in full, with the names of the people who picked up each award, AND WITH LINKS TO PICTURES, are:
1: Fixed infrastructure and operations
International network infrastructure transformation
Winner: Tata Communications for Intra-Asia and Eurasia Cables
Robert Irvin, Tata Communications
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International business network transformation
Winner: France Telecom Orange for Orange Business Services' network transformation
Andrew McFadzen, Orange Business Services
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International network IT transformation
Winners: Level 3 and Telcordia for Inventory automation for optical network
James Heard of Level 3
Mark Greenquist of Telcordia
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National network service transformation
Winners: Netherlands Joint Cable Consortium and XConnect for SIP Exchange in The Netherlands
Sikko De Graaf, JCC
Eli Katz, XConnect
Ben Van Lelieveld, VDVL
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Local network infrastructure transformation
Winners: Openreach and Huawei for Ebbsfleet Pilot FTTP Project
Steve Robertson, Openreach
Samuel Sun, Huawei
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Fixed network IT transformation
Winners: KPN and Oracle for Billing and CRM system transformation
Jan Muchez, KPN
Piero Di Giuseppe, Oracle
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International wholesale network transformation
Winner: Tata Communications for Global IP voice network
Gene Pradas, Tata Communications
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Managed services innovation
Winners: Nuetel Bahrain and BT Global Telecom Markets for Nuetel's IP transformation
Will Bruce, on behalf of Nuetel
Andrew Dodsworth, BT GTM
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2: Wireless infrastructure and operations
Mobile broadband infrastructure innovation
Winner: Telstra and Ericsson for NextG network
Simon Vye, Telstra
Jacquie Hey, Ericsson
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Emerging markets service innovation
Winners: Zain, Ericsson, Nokia Siemens Networks and Pyro Networks for Zain One Network
George Held, Zain
Edvard Gavefalk, Ericsson; Shahzad Abid, NSN; Paritosh Reddy, Pyro
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International mobile service innovation
Winners: Vodafone Group and Syniverse for Roaming anti-fraud protection
Sean Mills, Vodafone [Sean Mills was unable to be at the ceremony]
Pradeep Bhardwaj, Syniverse
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Wifi network innovation
Winners: BT and Fon Wireless for BT Fon network implementation
Pete Smyth, BT
Tom Uhart, Fon
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WiMax network innovation
Winner: Comstar UTS for Mobile WiMax implementation
Alexander Gorbunov, Comstar UTS
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Mobile commerce innovation
Winner: Valista for US Cellular operator payments service
Daniel Bradford, Valista
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Managed services innovation
Winners: Reliance Communications and Alcatel-Lucent for managed services joint venture
Bipendra Sinha, Reliance
Susan Friedman, Alcatel-Lucent
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OSS/BSS innovation
Winners: T-Mobile and Nokia Siemens Networks for Common network database solution
Guido Menzel, T-Mobile
Frank Buchholz, NSN
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3: Business fixed and mobile service innovations
Media services innovation
Winner: BT Global Services and Juniper Networks for Digital terrestrial TV distribution network
Garry White, BT
Paul Gainham, Juniper
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Machine-to-machine services innovation
Winners: O2 Communications Ireland and Wyless Group for ABB Robotics monitoring system
Mark Finlay, O2
Paul Smith, Wyless
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Service security innovation
Winners: Mobilkom Austria and Ikarus for A1 internet security
Reinhard Zuba, Mobilkom
Joe Pichlmayr, Ikarus
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Business mobile substitution innovation
Winner: GoHello for GoHello office PBX substitution
Gordon Buckland, GoHello
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Business services innovation
Winner: BT for Total ICT Orchestration
John Wittgreffe, BT
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Business email innovation
Winner: Vodafone Italy and Visto for Easy email set-up
Marzia Di Sisto, Vodafone
Fabrizio Minei, Visto
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Business service IT innovation
Winner: Korea Telecom FreeTel and Oracle for Integrated subscriber and service authentication system
Byoung-Chol Choi, KT FreeTel
Piero Di Giuseppe, Oracle
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Femtocell business innovation
Winner: Cable & Wireless and Ericsson for C&W femtocell-based installation on enterprise campuses
John Pluthero, C&W
Jacquie Hey, Ericsson
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4: Consumer fixed and mobile service innovations
Marketing strategy and service innovation
Winner: MTS (Russia) for Customer-centric lifestyle segmentation
Cynthia Gordon, MTS
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Fixed-mobile convergence innovation
Winner: France Telecom Orange for Unik dual-mode GSM/wifi service
Lauren Town, FT Orange
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Emerging markets expansion innovation
Winners: Zain Nigeria and Globalpraxis for Rural acquisition initiative
Lars Stork, Zain
Jean-Paul Evrard, Globalpraxis
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Emerging markets service innovation
Winners: Claro El Salvador and Orga Systems for Virtual voucher for Claro
Alberto Davison, Claro
Ivan Bril, Orga
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IPTV service innovation
Winner: Manitoba Telecom Services for MTS TV service
Stan Kurtas, Manitoba Telecom Services
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MVNO service innovation
Winners: Kajeet and Telcordia for Kajeet children's MVNO system
Ben Weintraub, Kajeet
Mark Greenquist, Telcordia
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International mobile service innovation
Winners: MTS (Russia) and Atos Origin for Worldline global recharge service
Cynthia Gordon of MTS
Reiner Wergen of Atos Origin
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Broadband wireless service innovation
Winners: Optimus, Huawei and Ericsson for Optimus Kanguru broadband wireless service
Luis Reis, Optimus
Pedro Ferreira, Huawei; Jacquie Hey, Ericsson
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Special service innovation
Winners: Cosmote and Aristotle University of Thessaloniki for Cosmote SmartEyes project
Marilena Fatsea, Cosmote
Stavros Panas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
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5: Editor's awards
Personal contribution to telecommunications
Winner: Paul Reynolds, CEO of Telecom New Zealand
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Telecommunications in the world
Winner: Télécoms sans Frontières www.tsfi.org
Monique Lanne-Petit, director and co-founder, TSF
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BACKGROUND
Global Telecoms Business magazine, which is read by the industry leaders in the telecommunications industry worldwide, will be publishing its 100th issue later in September. The magazine is part of the Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC group.
The Global Telecoms Business Innovation Awards were first presented in 2007. About 250 leaders of the industry from around the world attended the 2008 ceremony at the Sheraton Park Lane Hotel in London on the evening of Tuesday 9 September 2008.
Guests at the ceremony included chief executive officers, chief technology officers and other leaders from operators and vendors throughout the world, including Europe, China, Africa, India, Russia, North and South America, and the Pacific.
Hundreds of nominations for the industry's innovative projects were received from the readers of Global Telecoms Business since early in 2008 in a number of key categories.
The winners, as selected by the judging panel, represent the most innovative projects in the industry worldwide in four key categories:
1: fixed infrastructure and operations
2: wireless infrastructure and operations
3: business fixed and mobile service innovations
4: consumer fixed and mobile service innovations
Awards went to projects in each category, with each project — wherever possible — represented by a telecoms service provider and one or more suppliers.
In addition, there are two editor's awards, one for an organisation and one for an individual.
The Global Telecoms Business Innovation Awards 2008 were sponsored by Juniper Networks — gold sponsor — and Huawei Technologies — silver sponsor. The sponsors played no part in the selection of nominations or the final judging process. GTB