Global Mobile Awards

The GSMA Global Mobile Awards recognise and celebrate all the contributions made to the ever-evolving and developing mobile industry. The nominees for the 18th annual Global Mobile Awards have now been announced and the winners will be presented on Tuesday, 26th February at the GSMA Mobile World Congress, in an afternoon ceremony. This year we received well over 600 entries and nominations for the 37 awards, the largest ever number of honors to be presented at the Global Mobile Awards. The awards were judged by a panel of independent experts, analysts, journalists, academics and, in some cases, mobile operator representatives.

A full list of nominees and awards categories can be found at www.globalmobileawards.com/nominees-2013/

Introducing your host for 2013!

This year, the Global Mobile Awards will be hosted by British Writer, Actor, Fundraiser and Comedian David Walliams. David Walliams shot to fame through his work with Matt Lucas to create the television series Little Britain and latterly Come Fly With Me. Little Britain has won numerous international awards including three BAFTAs, showing in over 100 countries.

In addition to a wide variety of television, stage and film roles, Walliams has worked tirelessly for charity raising over £7 million, and in September 2011 he swam the length of the River Thames (140 miles) for Sports Relief, raising £1 million in the process.

He has also authored a number of bestselling children’s books and is also a judge on Britain’s Got Talent.

Global Mobile Awards Ceremony

The Global Mobile Awards were presented Tuesday, 26 February. The full winners list is below. For more information, please visit www.globalmobileawards.com.

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