Global Telecoms Business has honoured Bell Labs and Australia’s Senator Stephen Conroy in the magazine’s annual Innovation Awards.
The two awards were among others presented to telecoms operators and equipment vendors from around the world at a black-tie dinner in London.



Alcatel-Lucent’s Bell Labs was honoured not only for its long history of pioneering work in the industry — including the transistor and the laser — but for lightRadio, its latest innovation in mobile communications.
“This institution that has won more Nobel Prizes than most countries, and is continuing to shake the telecommunications industry with its latest innovation,” said Alan Burkitt-Gray, editor of Global Telecoms Business, presenting the awards to Haran Sold and Florian Pivit of Bell Labs.
Telecoms minister Stephen Conroy won the award for the most significant personal contribution to telecommunications, for his work in developing what Burkitt-Gray called “the boldest, most exciting project in the delivery of fixed and mobile broadband services in the world today”, Australia’s National Broadband Network.
Conroy, now minister for broadband, communications and the digital economy, began the project while in opposition. “Now he is the politician in charge of getting it done.”
Global Telecoms Business has been presenting its annual Innovation Awards for five years.
“This year we saw more nominations, from a greater range of operators and vendors, than ever before,” said Burkitt-Gray. “We started the Awards in order to celebrate what the industry is doing, making a huge difference to the world, to all of us in business and as consumers.
“This is a sure sign the industry is working harder and harder to deliver exciting and innovative services to customers worldwide. We’ve seen a greater number of nominations for services directly aimed at businesses and consumers, designed to give them better services and make their lives easier. Congratulations to all of this year’s award winners.”

Apart from the two editor’s awards — to Bell Labs and Senator Conroy — the awards are arranged in five categories:

A: fixed infrastructure innovation
B: wireless infrastructure innovation
C: wholesale service innovation
D: business service innovation
E: consumer service innovation

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Results in full

A: Fixed network infrastructure innovation

Broadband bandwidth innovation
Winners: A1 Telekom Austria and Alcatel-Lucent
Project: 390 megabits/s DSL technology

Broadband capacity innovation
Winners: France Telecom Orange and Tellabs
Project: Scalable ring-based dense access network architecture

Rural broadband innovation
Winners: Openreach and The Kenton Group
Project: Long-reach fixed-line broadband enabling technology

Green broadband innovation
Winners: TEO and ZTE
Project: Low-power, low-carbon fibre-to-the-home network

IP transformation innovation
Winners: Telecom Italia and Juniper Networks
Project: IPv4 to IPv6 migration technology



Broadband service innovation
Winners: Telekom Slovenije and Ixia Technologies
Project: Carrier multiplay service assurance

Wide area network innovation
Winners: Telkom South Africand Expand Networks
Project: Managed WAN optimisation

B: Wireless network infrastructure innovation

Mobile broadband innovation
Winners: Rogers Wireless and Hewlett-Packard
Project: Prepaid and postpaid internet usage manager

Mobile platform innovation
Winners: Aero2 and Huawei Technologies
Project: LTE FDD/TDD co-platform project

Mobile cloud platform innovation
Winners: Cubio and Nokia Siemens Networks
Project: Cloud-based platform for event organisers

Mobile service and billing innovation
Winners: MTS and Paragon Software
Project: Service, billing and application interface

Mobile video innovation
Winners: Korea Telecom with Syniverse
Project: Mobile video communications system

Mobile roaming innovation
Winners: Starcomms and MACH
Project: Pre-paid inter-standard roaming data service



Digital dividend innovation
Winners: Vodafone and Huawei Technologies
Project: Digital dividend 800MHz LTE project

SMS network innovation
Winners: Maxis and Acision
Project: Missed SMS notification service

C: Wholesale service innovation

Wholesale capacity innovation
Winners: Interoute and Infinera
Project: High-capacity managed network solution

Ethernet service innovation
Winners: Bharti Airtel and Alcatel-Lucent
Project: Ethernet aggregation using ethernet over SDH platform

Cloud service innovation
Winners: Biesse Telecom and BT
Project: Cloud-based virtual data centres

Satellite service innovation
Winners: Gateway Communications and Altobridge
Project: Remote community solution for GSM coverage

Media service innovation
Winners: Bharti Airtel and IBM
Project: Digital media exchange for content distribution

Satellite video innovation
Winners: Skylogic and Juniper Networks
Project: Video distribution over IP for satellite services

Managed service innovation
Winners: Empower and Nokia Siemens Networks
Project: Cloud-based field force management system

D: Business service innovation



Fraud management innovation
Winners: Swisscom and Subex
Project: Risk-reward share for fraud management

MVNO platform innovation
Winners: KPN International and Huawei Software Technologies
Project: International service platform for MVNO

SME services innovation
Winners: Easynet Connect and OneAccess
Project: High-speed symmetrical internet access

Mobile health innovation
Winners: Cable & Wireless Panama and Reserma
Project: Digital telemammography network



Financial risk innovation
Winners: Turkcell and Neural Technologies
Project: Fraud and credit risk management project

Smartphone management innovation
Winners: AT&T and MobileIron
Project: Virtual smartphone platform for enterprise

Corporate application innovation
Winners: Colt Technology Services and Ipanema Technologies
Project: Application-aware networking services

Network management innovation
Winners: Easynet Global Services and Ipanema Technologies
Project: Application performance management solutions

Cloud applications innovation
Winners: Virtela and IBM
Project: Cloud-based application acceleration service

Revenue assurance innovation
Winners: ABR Telecom and Hewlett-Packard
Project: Cooperative anti-fraud platform

Satellite voice and data innovation
Winners: Bharti Airtel and Hughes Communications
Project: Integrated satellite delivery for rural areas

Remote education innovation
Winners: Institute for a Broadband Enabled Society and Ericsson
Project: UniTV platform for educational TV

E: Consumer service innovation

Social network innovation
Winners: Vodafone and ZTE
Project: Social network service on mobile phones

Video service innovation
Winners: Etisalat and Verimatrix
Project: IP and over-the-top TV services

SMS services innovation
Winners: Vodafone and Telsis
Project: SMS blacklist for child protection

Navigation service innovation
Winners: MTS and Telmap
Project: Navigation service with live traffic updates

Mobile transaction innovation
Winners: Digicel Group and Scotiabank
Project: Mobile money service for Haiti

Mobile application innovation
Winners: Bakrie Telecom, Qualcomm, Ruma and Grameen Foundation
Project: AppLab Indonesia

Location service innovation
Winners: Vipnet and GDi
Project: GPS and cloud-based boat surveillance system

Customer service innovation
Winners: Ufone and Gemalto
Project: Priority customer service using SMS via SIM card

Cloud telephony innovation
Winners: Cell C and fonYou Telecom
Project: Cloud-based telephony service


Mobile wallet innovation
Winners: Banglalink and Comviva
Project: Mobile wallet and international money transfer

Service charging innovation
Winners: Setar and Acision
Project: Charging engine with real-time spending controls

Mobile payment innovation
Winners: Zain and Homisco
Project: Mobile financial services package

Mobile voicemail innovation
Winners: Hullomail and Tesco Telecom
Project: Visual voicemail for prepay users

F: Editor’s awards
                        
Editor’s award for corporate contribution
to telecoms innovation   
Winner: Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs
for lightRadio technology
                           
Editor’s award for personal contribution
to telecoms innovation
Winner: Senator Stephen Conroy
for the National Broadband Network

The awards were presented at a black-tie dinner in the ballroom of the Sheraton Park Lane Hotel in central London. GTB