Asia is becoming a leading force in the mobile communications space. Mobile product makers Samsung and Asus and mobile operators NTT Docomo, Bharti Airtel and SK Telecom were among the winners at the 18th Annual Global Mobile awards, held at the GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The Government of New Zealand also nabbed the Spectrum for Mobile Broadband Award.
More than 170 independent analysts, journalists, academics, and subject matter experts and 13 representatives from mobile operators throughout the world participated in the judging of the 2013 awards.
The full list of winners and finalist for the 2013 Global Mobile Awards is available at www.globalmobileawards.com/winners-2013
The winners of the 2013 Global Mobile Awards are:
Best Mobile Health Product or Service: MIPsoft for BlindSquare
Best Mobile Education or Learning Product or Service: Mobilink for SMS Based Literacy program
Best Mobile Product or Service for Automotive: BMW i, MINI, Sixt and Vodafone Group for DriveNow Premium Car Sharing
Best NFC /Mobile Money Product or Service: Etisalat for Flous – The Etisalat Commerce Programme
Best Mobile Publishing Product or Service: Ver Se Innovation for NewsHunt
Best Mobile Innovation for ‘Smart Cities’: Streetline for Parker
Best Mobile Enabled Consumer Electronics Device: Samsung Electronics for Samsung GALAXY Camera
Best Enterprise Mobile Service: Mobilelron for Version 5 Complete Enterprise Persona
Best Consumer Mobile Service: Comviva for Mahindra Comviva’s mobiquity™ MFS platform powering mTicketing service for Bangladesh Railways
Best Advertising or Marketing on Mobile: McCann Worldgroup (Hong Kong) for Chok! Chok! Chok!
Best Network Product or Solution for Serving Customers: NTT DOCOMO for Hanashite Hon’yaku, world’s first automatic voice translation service
Best Product, Initiative or Service in Emerging Markets: Ericsson for Amazon Connection– a digital inclusion program in the Amazon
GSMA mWomen Best Mobile Product or Service for Women in Emerging Markets: Asiacell for Almas Line
Best Use of Mobile in Emergency or Humanitarian Situations: Vodafone Foundation for Vodafone Instant Network
The Green Mobile Award: Indus Towers for Green Sites Project
Best Mobile App for Consumers: Facebook
Best Mobile App for Enterprise: Evernote
Judges Choice – Best Overall Mobile App: Waze
Most Innovative Mobile App: McCann Worldgroup (Hong Kong) for Chok! Chok! Chok!
Smartphone Application Challenge: AT&T for Application Resource Optimizer (ARO)
Best Application using Network APIs: Bharti Airtel Limited for my airtel app
Best Smartphone: Samsung Galaxy S3
Best Feature phone or entry level phone: Nokia Asha 305
Device Manufacturer of the Year: Samsung
Best Mobile Tablet: Google and Asus for Nexus 7
Best Mobile Infrastructure: Samsung Electronics for Smart LTE Networks
Best Mobile Technology Breakthrough: Accuris Networks for AccuROAM Wi-Fi: Making Wi-Fi a carrier driven extension of GSM for Offload and Roaming
Best Cloud Based Technology for Mobile: Jasper Wireless cloud-based connected devices platform for machine-to-machine (M2M) and consumer electronics
Best Mobile Safeguard & Security Products and Services: AdaptiveMobile and Syniverse for Messaging Trust
Outstanding LTE Contribution: SK Telecom for 4G LTE with PETA Solution
Outstanding Overall Mobile Technology – The CTO’s choice: Samsung Electronics for Smart LTE Networks
Spectrum for Mobile Broadband Award: Government of New Zealand
Mobile for Development Award: U.S. Agency for International Development
m-Government Award: Government of Moldova
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