CC – Global Awards 2022

This award will recognize a successful initiative to improve access to communications globally. This is the definitive prize for operator entrants. Operator of the Year will be awarded to any wholesale organization and/or service provider, including MNOs, ISPs and MVNOs, that has demonstrated groundbreaking strides in the industry over the last year. Judges will consider a broad array of criteria, including but not limited to customer and revenue growth, market-disrupting innovations, initiatives for the betterment of the telecommunications industry, first-to-market technology implementations, industry collaboration efforts and the development of any one-of-a-kind initiative.

Stability, as well as keeping the cable up-to-date with a minimum of outages, is key for any region: whole countries & regions are depending on it!

As operators seek to differentiate themselves by increasingly varied means, this category recognizes operators who have innovatively & creatively introduced their company, strategy and/or new services etc. in an exciting way over the last year.

To recognize an executive who has come up with a strategy, idea, or procedure in the industry that has transformed an existing situation or activity in a significant way. A leader who went beyond and possibly changed the ‘game’ in an inspirational way.

A leader who is passionate about the wholesale industry, and a shining representative of the broader business community. A woman who has made significant contributions to her organization’s success and the industry through her impressive knowledge and accomplishments or her expertise in bringing new products or businesses to fruition. Or, an admired mentor with a history of supporting other women and being actively engaged in developing people at all levels within her organization.  Someone who holds an executive-level position within the industry.

This award recognizes a new entrant with a 'refreshing approach' to the market; the next 'one to watch'.

This year the best Data/Capacity Provider of the year will be awarded for its efforts towards opening up markets , countries and/or territories.

Operator of the Year will be awarded to any MNO that has taken groundbreaking strides in the industry over the last year.

This award will go to the Data Center Service Provider boasting a unique product or initiative that demonstrates the most effective and/or refreshing new service or solution, and can illustrate the business benefits that came from it.

This award will go to the Regional Data Center Operator boasting a unique product or initiative that demonstrates the most effective and/or refreshing new service or solution, and can illustrate the business benefits that came from it.

This award will go to the most unique, innovative, transformed, and/or refreshing Unified Communication Online Provider of the last 12 months.

This award will go to the REGIONAL SMS Service Provider with a unique service, initiative that demonstrates the most effective and/or new (refreshing) service or solution and can illustrate the business benefits that came from it.

This award will go to the SMS Service Provider with a unique service for the wholesale industry; an initiative that demonstrates the most effective and/or new (refreshing) service or solution and can illustrate the business benefits that came from it.

This award will distinguish a service provider for the launch of an innovative SMS software platform solution especially designed for the Wholesale Market. This title will be awarded to any Mobile Operator, SMS Aggregator or Telco software solution provider who managed to launch a software solution addressing the complex needs of Wholesale SMS market entrants. Our jury will evaluate the measurable benefits to customers including completeness of E2E business process, security, modular flexibility and level of business neutrality. The chosen Provider will embody a high level of technological and market expertise reflected in an intuitive, state of the art solution which effectively enables new market entrants to launch secure Wholesale SMS business.

This award will distinguish a service provider for the launch of an innovative SMS software platform solution. The prize will be awarded to one Mobile Operator, SMS Aggregator or Telco software solution provider who managed to launch a software solution addressing the complex needs of SMS market entrants within the wholesale Telco market.

This award recognizes excellence in the field of residential, wholesale or enterprise fixed and wireless networks (i.e. broadband – such as FTTH or G.fast). The successful entrant will demonstrate how network innovations are delivering new levels of service quality for customers; generating new revenue streams or business models; or disrupting competitive markets. Ideal entrants have a background in ISPs, cable operators, fiber providers, MNO or network solutions vendors.

Successful customer experience programs can take on pivotal importance in an industry as competitive as telecoms. Customer expectations are higher than ever and churn remains an expensive challenge. This award will go to the product, initiative or company that demonstrates the most effective customer experience solution and can illustrate the business benefits that came from it.

A surprising proportion of the global population still have limited access to communication technologies, which have been consistently shown to improve independence, productivity and standard of living once acquired. For this award, judges will be looking for evidence of both uptake within the groups addressed and the benefits provided, as well as innovation in the use of the network, equipment, products, solutions or service provision.

IoT is positioned to become the dominant tech trend of the next ten years as businesses the world over seek to harness the potential of automating machine processes and gaining insights on data we never thought possible. This category awards advances in real-world deployments of IoT. Successful entries will illustrate how Internet of Things-technology is being successfully delivered and monetized, and can range from enterprise/industrial use-cases to consumer, smart-home and smart cities.

This award will go to the most unique, innovative, transformative and/or refreshing OTT Project of the last 12 months.

This award recognizes excellence in the provisioning and implementation of IPX Services. Being the Best-of-the-Best!

This award is open to companies that can demonstrate successful use cases of WAN and are able to share details of the facilitation of this deployment in the past 12 months. Companies should have devised a best – practice use case of the solution to make it successful.

This award recognizes the best VOLTE Service Provider, which will aid development of the core to support LTE networks & services that will be deployed over them. Companies should be able to demonstrate/showcase a user case study where the solution has been used and share details of why & how it’s been successful.

The subsea cable sector has seen a remarkable resurgence of strategic activity and capital infusion over the last couple of years, with significant new strategic participants and pronounced new organic demand from converging industry bandwidth and web-centric consumers . We recognize the most innovative subsea project and most successful initiative from an operator that has significantly improved the performance or coverage of a network in a region.

This award will recognize a successful initiative to improve access to communications in the region. This is the definitive prize for operator entrants. Operator of the Year will be awarded to any wholesale organization, service provider, including MNOs, ISPs and MVNOs, which has demonstrated groundbreaking strides in the industry over the last year. Judges will consider a broad array of criteria, including but not limited to customer and revenue growth, market disrupting innovations, initiatives for the betterment of the telecommunications industry, first-to-market technology implementations, industry collaboration efforts and any initiative, which has been truly one-of-a-kind.

This award will recognize a successful initiative to improve access to communications in the region. This is the definitive prize for operator entrants. Operator of the Year will be awarded to any wholesale organization, service provider, including MNOs, ISPs and MVNOs, which has demonstrated groundbreaking strides in the industry over the last year. Judges will consider a broad array of criteria, including but not limited to customer and revenue growth, market disrupting innovations, initiatives for the betterment of the telecommunications industry, first-to-market technology implementations, industry collaboration efforts and any initiative, which has been truly one-of-a-kind.

This award will recognize a successful initiative to improve access to communications in the region. This is the definitive prize for operator entrants. Operator of the Year will be awarded to any wholesale organization, service provider, including MNOs, ISPs and MVNOs, which has demonstrated groundbreaking strides in the industry over the last year. Judges will consider a broad array of criteria, including but not limited to customer and revenue growth, market disrupting innovations, initiatives for the betterment of the telecommunications industry, first-to-market technology implementations, industry collaboration efforts and any initiative, which has been truly one-of-a-kind.

This award will recognize a successful initiative to improve access to communications in the region. This is the definitive prize for operator entrants. Operator of the Year will be awarded to any wholesale organization, service provider, including MNOs, ISPs and MVNOs, which has demonstrated groundbreaking strides in the industry over the last year. Judges will consider a broad array of criteria, including but not limited to customer and revenue growth, market disrupting innovations, initiatives for the betterment of the telecommunications industry, first-to-market technology implementations, industry collaboration efforts and any initiative, which has been truly one-of-a-kind.

This award will recognize a successful initiative to improve access to communications in the region. This is the definitive prize for operator entrants. Operator of the Year will be awarded to any wholesale organization, service provider, including MNOs, ISPs and MVNOs, which has demonstrated groundbreaking strides in the industry over the last year. Judges will consider a broad array of criteria, including but not limited to customer and revenue growth, market disrupting innovations, initiatives for the betterment of the telecommunications industry, first-to-market technology implementations, industry collaboration efforts and any initiative, which has been truly one-of-a-kind.

This award will recognize a successful initiative to improve access to communications in the region. This is the definitive prize for operator entrants. Operator of the Year will be awarded to any wholesale organization, service provider, including MNOs, ISPs and MVNOs, which has demonstrated groundbreaking strides in the industry over the last year. Judges will consider a broad array of criteria, including but not limited to customer and revenue growth, market disrupting innovations, initiatives for the betterment of the telecommunications industry, first-to-market technology implementations, industry collaboration efforts and any initiative, which has been truly one-of-a-kind.

This award will recognize a successful initiative to improve access to communications in the region. This is the definitive prize for operator entrants. Operator of the Year will be awarded to any wholesale organization, service provider, including MNOs, ISPs and MVNOs, which has demonstrated groundbreaking strides in the industry over the last year. Judges will consider a broad array of criteria, including but not limited to customer and revenue growth, market disrupting innovations, initiatives for the betterment of the telecommunications industry, first-to-market technology implementations, industry collaboration efforts and any initiative, which has been truly one-of-a-kind.

This award will recognize a successful initiative to improve access to communications in the region. This is the definitive prize for operator entrants. Operator of the Year will be awarded to any wholesale organization, service provider, including MNOs, ISPs and MVNOs, which has demonstrated groundbreaking strides in the industry over the last year. Judges will consider a broad array of criteria, including but not limited to customer and revenue growth, market disrupting innovations, initiatives for the betterment of the telecommunications industry, first-to-market technology implementations, industry collaboration efforts and any initiative, which has been truly one-of-a-kind.

Over and above the specific benefits of NFV (Network Functions Virtualization), the cloud looms large on the telecoms horizon. Whether its software defined networking, ‘as a service’ business processes, or simply the greater demand on the network generated by the need for mobile or IoT devices to constantly communicate with the cloud, this is one of the defining technological tends of our time. The winning entrant will demonstrate the most innovative approach to the cloud in the past 12 months.

Ever decreasing margins in voice are the catalyst for innovation in the services used to deliver them. These services must bring to the forefront an integrated approach to optimizing carrier costs and routes, while increasing quality of service, volumes, margins, and operational efficiency. This award will recognize a service provider that offers the most powerful, flexible, and innovative (cloud based) carrier-grade wholesale management service. The Jury will evaluate benefits for carriers in criteria including improving efficiency, increasing margins & volumes, and modular flexibility – routing, billing, service assurance, business & technical analytics, and dispute management.

Security frailties have repeatedly made headlines over the past 12 months, as such this category will award excellence in cyber threat mitigation for telecoms operators. Entrants will demonstrate excellence in fields such as SS7 security, protection against fraudulent activity, DDoS mitigation, data protection, cloud security and everything in between. Judges will be looking to understand the threats prevented, the impact on business, and the technologies utilized to defend networks.

This category recognizes the IX-operators who have innovatively & creatively introduced their company, strategy and/or new services, etc. Differentiation is the key word for the Judges.

This award is open to companies that are capable of demonstrating successful use cases of innovative software and are able to share the details of facilitating this deployment in the past 12 months. Companies should have devised an innovative use case of the solution to make it successful.

This award is open to companies that are capable of demonstrating successful use cases of innovating technology/ application and are able to share the details of facilitating this deployment in the past 12 months. Companies should have devised an innovative use case of the solution to make it successful.

This award goes to the most innovative & implementable blockchain solution. Best practices!

Best MVNO regional Operator of the Year will be awarded to the provider that has demonstrated groundbreaking strides and was a serious differentiator in the Region over the last year.

This award recognizes the Best Mobility Innovation Provider, addressing innovation use cases which will aid development to Mobility and/or the Mobility portfolio.

This award will go to the Provider with a proved unique and innovative set of value-added services, and/or a service provider that demonstrates the most innovative and/or new & refreshing service or solution, and can illustrate the business benefits that came from it.

This award is open to companies capable of demonstrating successful use case(s) of innovation resulting from an acquisition. An innovative transformation of the new company will certainly be recognized by the judges.

The future of advertising is digital. While spending on traditional advertising may have peaked, investment in digital advertising continues to fuel growth in the overall market. Note, the definition of digital advertising excludes SMS, MMS and P2P messaging-based advertising. The submitted operator should show with supported material and case study initiatives taken, latest Internet technologies and assets used, to develop new revenue and growth engines by entering businesses where it has a competitive advantage.

This award will recognize a successful initiative to improve access to communications across Earth; an innovative enterprise that made a change will be highly rewarded.

This award is open to companies capable of demonstrating successful solutuion use cases and able to share the details of facilitating this deployment in the past 12 months. Companies should have devised a best – practice use case of the solution to make it successful.

This award recognizes the Best Innovative MVNO, which addresses innovation use cases that will aid development for its users.

Companies providing innovative services supporting the IoT industry, including providers or airtime, platform solutions and device management.

Companies providing innovative services on top of mobile networks such as OSS/BSS, MVNEs, CRM or lifestyle services such as e-commerce solutions, Fintech, Healthtech, loyalty etc.

This category is looking for the most successfully deployed 5G network related to areas such as rollout, network architecture, eco-system, and business models / opportunities for monetisation.

Best innovative services offered in the B2B ncluding, but not limited to, financial services, healthcare, automotive, and entertainment.
The judges will be looking for the most innovative and successful extension of their product offering by an operator and/or service provider beyond the pure connectivity sphere such as managed networks, security, voice services, messaging, cloud, IOT solutions and on-demand connectivity.

This category recognises the digital transformation of an organisation related with processes, culture, and competencies through the deployment of a mix of digital technologies leading to high customer satisfaction results.

This category rewards the best technologies deployed to assist in the roll out and best coverage of broadband.

This award recognises the best cloud technologies implemented and utilized to deliver agile, automated, and scalable solutions and services.

The jury will be specifically looking for innovative solutions that will improve quality of life for the citizens of the relevant cities and increase efficiency and productivity.

The jury will be looking into the governance structures introduced by these organisations committed to creating long-term value while showing how tech organisations can operate in a sustainable ecological, social and economic environment.

Awarded to the operator that has best adapted to emerging market characteristics and overcome challenges to achieve commercial success and improve the lives of customers.

This award recognises organisations investing in their people, processes and platforms, while successfully managing the cultural change and ensuing impact of digitisation. The winning enterprise is developing and investing in employees´ digital skills and undertaking programs to enhance digital knowledge and competency to swiftly serve today and tomorrow's customers' digital needs.

The most widely recognised and achieved woman from the industry, working for a small, medium, or large-scale organisation and/or within an executive position.

Demonstrating leadership abilities leading to their organisation’s success.