And the Award Goes to!

The GSMA Awards have been announced @ the MWC 2009.

And the winners are

Best Mobile Game
Winner: Gameloft - Real Football 2009

Best Mobile Music or Video Service
Winner: BBC iPlayer on Mobile

Best Mobile Advertising Service
Winner: Turkcell - Tonla Kazan

Best Mobile Brand Campaign
Winner: R/GA London - Nokia Urbanista Diaries

Best Mobile TV Service
Winner: MobiTV - MobiTV

Best Mobile Enterprise Product or Service
Winner: Vodafone - Vodafone Global Enterprise Limited

Best Mobile Internet Service
Winner: Nokia - Nokia Sports Tracker

Best Mobile Money Service
Winner: Safaricom and Vodafone - M-PESA

Highly Commended: Digital Chocolate - AvaPeeps: FlirtNation

Best Mobile Handset or Device
Winner: INQ - INQ1

Highly Commended: Nokia - Nokia E71

Highly Commended: T-Mobile - T-Mobile G1

Best Broadcast Commercial
Winner: KT Freetel – ‘Show is…’

Best Use of Mobile for Social and Economic Development
Winner: Nuance Communications - Airtel-T9 India Consumer Vernacular Messaging Campaigns

Best Network Technology Advance
Winner: Nokia Siemens Networks - Flexi Multimode BTS Software defined HSPA/LTE

Best Service Delivery Platform
Winner: NewBay Software - LifeCache Social Networking Solution 2.0

Best Billing & Customer Care Solution
Winner: Expert System - COGITO Answers

Best Mobile Technology Breakthrough
Winner: RIM - BlackBerry Storm 9500 SurePress Screen

The Green Mobile Award
Winner: Smart Communications - Alternative Power for Cell Sites program

GSMA's CEO Award for Outstanding Environmental Contribution
Winner: Nokia

Government Leadership Award
Winner: The Government of France

GSMA Chairman’s Award
Winner: Research in Motion (RIM)

The 2009 mobile innovation global award champion
Winner: Cootek, China (Most Innovative Wireless Device-centric Technology)

The 2009 mobile innovation global award competiton
Winner: EMEA TOURNAMENT

Most Innovative Wireless Device-centric Technology
Winner: Intivation, Netherlands

Most Innovative Carrier Infrastructure or Platform
Winner: Sunbay, Switzerland

Most Innovative Mobile Application in a Vertical Market
Winner: WorldMate, USA

Most Innovative Consumer Application or Service
Winner: Mobile Nordic AS, Norway

Most Innovative True Mobile Start-Up
Winner: Advanced Receiver Technologies, USA

We appreciate and applaud them for their outstanding contribution to the mobile industry !!!