Mobile World Congress 2014. Barcelona, Spain. February 25, 2014. Courtesy of GSMA

Barcelona, Spain - February 25, 2014

The GSMA today announced the winners of the 19th Annual Global Mobile awards, held at the GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

The winners were honoured in an afternoon ceremony hosted by British actor, writer, presenter and comedian James Corden.

Corden entertained nominees and attendees with a comic introduction to the ceremony.

He was joined on stage to present the awards by Jon Fredrik Baksaas, Chairman, GSMA and President and CEO, Telenor Group, Anne Bouverot, Director General, GSMA and John Hoffman, CEO, GSMA Ltd., as well as representatives from category sponsor Maxim Integrated, media partners CNBC, Fortune and Time and members of the judging panel who co-presented awards.

LG at Mobile World Congress 2014. Barcelona, Spain. February 25, 2014. Courtesy of GSMA

“Now in the 19th year, the Global Mobile Awards once again showcase the outstanding level of innovation and creative products and services being developed across a diverse and growing industry,” said John Hoffman, CEO, GSMA Ltd.
“With more than 680 high calibre entries this year, the competition was stronger than ever and it is a significant achievement to have been honoured today. The GSMA would like to warmly congratulate all Global Mobile Awards winners and recognise all those who took part for continuing to drive mobile communications into the future.”

Nokia at Mobile World Congress 2014. Barcelona, Spain. February 25, 2014. Courtesy of GSMA

The winners of the 2014 Global Mobile Awards are:


Best Mobile Health Product or Service

Energize the Chain for Econet Wireless Vaccine Project in Zimbabwe


Best Mobile Education Product or Service

Enable Mobile Technologies for Magic Pencil


Best Mobile Product or Service for Automotive

Nuance Communications for Dragon Drive


Best NFC/Mobile Money Product or Service

Telenor Pakistan and Tameer Micro Finance Bank for Easypaisa


Best Mobile Publishing Product or Service

Wibbitz for Text-To-Video Technology


Best Mobile Innovation for ‘Smart Cities’

Accenture plc and RCS MediaGroup S.p.A. for City1Tap


Best Mobile-Enabled Consumer Electronics Device

AT&T and Filip Technologies Inc. for FiLIP


Best Enterprise Mobile Service

AirWatch for AirWatch Enterprise Mobility Management, Version 7.0


Best Consumer Mobile Service

AT&T for AT&T Digital Life


Best Advertising or Marketing on Mobile

Hindustan Unilever Ltd., Lowe and Partners for Kan Khajura Tesan


Best Network-Based Solution for Serving Customers

GMCR Inc. for Globe Prepaid GoSakto: Create Your Own Promo


Best Mobile Product, Initiative or Service in Emerging Markets

Vodafone Foundation in India, the Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) and the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women (CBFW) for RUDI Sandesha Vyavhar (RSV) Project


Best Mobile Product or Service for Women in Emerging Markets

Telenor Pakistan and Tameer Micro Finance Bank for Easypaisa


Best Use of Mobile in Emergency or Humanitarian Situations

Smart Communications for Smart’s SafePh: Yolanda Response


Best Mobile Product, Service or App for Accessibility or Ease-of-Use

Turkcell for Turkcell My Dream Partner


The Green Mobile Award

Grameenphone Ltd. for Climate Change Program


Best Entertainment App (Gaming, Music, Sports, Video)

Device 6


Judges’ Choice – Best Overall Mobile App

CityMapper


Most Innovative Mobile App

PointGrab for CamMe


Smartphone App Challenge

Akbank T.A.S. for Akbank Direkt Mobile App


Best Smartphone

HTC One


Best Low-Cost Smartphone (sub-$150 wholesale price)

Nokia Lumia 520


Best Entry-level or Featurephone

Nokia 105


Most Innovative Device Manufacturer of the Year

LG


Best Mobile Tablet

Apple iPad Air


Best Mobile Infrastructure

Nokia Solutions and Networks with Telefónica O2 UK Limited for iSON Automation for Operations


Best Mobile Technology Breakthrough

Sensory Inc. for TrulyHandsfreeTM 3.0


Best Cloud-Based Technology for Mobile

Xively for Xively Cloud Services


Best Mobile Identity, Safeguard & Security Products/Solutions

SecureAuth IdP – 2 Factor Access Control for the Mobile Enterprise


Best Solution for Growing Smaller or Independent Networks

Reach-U for Demograft


Outstanding LTE Contribution

KT Corporation for Wideband LTE-A Commercial Service
SK Telecom for Commercial LTE-Advanced Network


Outstanding Overall Mobile Technology – The CTOs’ choice

KT Corporation for Wideband LTE-A Commercial Service
SK Telecom for Commercial LTE-Advanced Network

Nokia at Mobile World Congress 2014. Barcelona, Spain. February 25, 2014. Courtesy of GSMA

Previously announced were the winners of the Government Mobile Excellence Awards, the GSMA Chairman’s Award and the GSMA Lifetime Achievement Award:

Spectrum for Mobile Broadband Award

The Government of the United Arab Emirates


The Economic Policy for Sustainable Mobile Growth Award

The Government of Spain


The Connected Government Award

The Government of Lebanon


Government Leadership Award

The Government of Botswana


GSMA Chairman’s Award

Dr. Paul Jacobs, CEO and Chairman of the Board of Qualcomm Inc.


GSMA Lifetime Achievement Award

Rob Conway, Former CEO of the GSMA (Posthumous)

Sony at Mobile World Congress 2014. Barcelona, Spain. February 25, 2014. Courtesy of GSMA

The full list of winners and finalist for the 2014 Global Mobile Awards is available at:
http://www.globalmobileawards.com/winners-2014  

Sony at Mobile World Congress 2014. Barcelona, Spain. February 25, 2014. Courtesy of GSMA

The shortlist for the ‘Best New Mobile Handset, Device or Tablet at Mobile World Congress 2014′ will be announced between 10.15am and 10.30am (CET), Wednesday, 26th February on both Mobile World Live TV and the Global Mobile Awards website.

HTC at Mobile World Congress 2014. Barcelona, Spain. February 25, 2014. Courtesy of GSMA

The winner will be honoured in a live presentation on Mobile World Live TV between 9.00am and 9.15am (CET) on Thursday, 27th February.

Mobile World Congress 2014. Barcelona, Spain. February 25, 2014. Courtesy of GSMA

In total more than 175 independent analysts, journalists, academics and subject matter experts throughout the world participated in the judging process, including the chief technology officers of 14 mobile operators who took part in judging the “Outstanding Overall Mobile Technology” award.

Tizen at Mobile World Congress 2014. Barcelona, Spain. February 25, 2014. Courtesy of GSMA

Full information on the Global Mobile Awards can be found at
www.globalmobileawards.com  


About the GSMA


The GSMA represents the interests of mobile operators worldwide.

Spanning more than 220 countries, the GSMA unites nearly 800 of the world’s mobile operators with 250 companies in the broader mobile ecosystem, including handset and device makers, software companies, equipment providers and Internet companies, as well as organisations in industry sectors such as financial services, healthcare, media, transport and utilities.

The GSMA also produces industry-leading events such as Mobile World Congress and Mobile Asia Expo.

For more information, please visit the GSMA corporate website at www.gsma.com  

Follow the GSMA on Twitter: @GSMA.


Media Contacts:

For the GSMA:
Charlie Meredith-Hardy
+44 7917 298428
CMeredith-Hardy@webershandwick.com  

Christian Martinell
+34 607 150 276
CMartinell@webershandwick.com  

GSMA Press Office
pressoffice@gsma.com  


Source: GSMA Press Office

http://www.gsma.com/newsroom/  



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