February 25, 2016
Barcelona: The GSMA today congratulates all winners of
the 2016 Glomo Awards, which were announced during a series of ceremonies and
live TV presentations throughout the week at the GSMA Mobile World Congress in
Barcelona. Awards hosts TV presenters Suzi Perry and Ortis Deley revealed the
winners on Mobile World Live TV and at the official awards ceremony, which took
place on Tuesday, 23 February.
“Our congratulations to all of the winners and nominees of
the GSMA’s Glomo Awards this week of Mobile World Congress," said Michael
O’Hara, Chief Marketing Officer, GSMA. "In what was a remarkably wide
field of more than 930 entrants, narrowed to 170 nominees, it is truly an
outstanding achievement to have been selected by our esteemed judging panels.
We thank all of our entrants, judges, sponsors and partners for supporting the
21st Glomo Awards.”
Also announced in separate ceremonies at Mobile World
Congress were winners of the “Government Excellence Awards”, and the
“Outstanding Achievement” awards that included the “Chairman’s Award” and an
award for “Connected Women Leadership in the Industry”.
The winners of the 2016
Glomo Awards are:
Best Mobile Innovation
for Health
Etisalat for Etisalat “Drones for Good”
Best Mobile Innovation
for Education
Worldreader and Opera for Worldreader Mobile
Best Mobile Innovation
for Automotive
Anagog for Crowdsourced Parking Technology
Best Mobile Payment
Solution
Vodafone India for Vodafone M-Pesa Ltd
Best Use of Mobile for
Retail, Brands & Commerce
Point Inside for StoreMode™
Best Use of Mobile for
Travel, Leisure & Hospitality
SapientNitro for Lufthansa Apple Watch App
Mobile Connect Award for
Authentication & Identity
Orange Spain, Telefonica and Vodafone Spain for Mobile Connect
Best Mobile Innovation
for ‘The Internet of Things’
SIGFOX – A Global IoT communication service provider
Outstanding Innovation
for the Connected Life
Etisalat for Etisalat “Drones for Good”
Orange Spain, Telefonica and Vodafone Spain for Mobile Connect
Best Mobile Service or
App for Enterprise
KPN and Accenture for Connected Workers
Best Use of Mobile for
Advertising or Marketing
Opera Mediaworks, Mindshare and Wanda Digital for Rexona
Best Mobile Cloud Service
or App
InnoQuant for MOCA Platform
Best Mobile Network
Solution for Serving Customers
Dialog Axiata PLC for Self-Care Application Framework
Best Mobile Innovation
for Emerging Markets
M-KOPA III Solar Home System for M-KOPA Solar
Best Mobile Service for
Women in Emerging Markets
Vodafone Telekomunikasyon for Vodafone Kırmızı Işık (Easy Rescue)
Mobile in Emergency or
Humanitarian Situations
Flowminder, Ncell and TeliaSonera for Aid the displaced post Nepal earthquake
Best Use of Mobile for
Accessibility & Inclusion
Turkcell for Turkcell My Dream Companion Mobile Audio Description
The Green Mobile Award
Telefónica for Telefónica Global Energy Efficiency Programme 2010-2020
Best Mobile Music App
SoundCloud for SoundCloud App
Best Mobile Game
Super Evil Megacorp for Vainglory
Best Mobile App Media,
Film, TV or Video
Quickplay for HOOQ app
Best Mobile App for
Social and Lifestyle
Turkcell for Turkcell Healthmetre
Most Innovative Mobile App
L’Oréal Paris Worldwide for Makeup Genius
Best Overall Mobile App
(Judge’s Choice)
Google Cardboard
Best Smartphone 2015
Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge
Best Low Cost Smartphone
(Sub $100)
Xiaomi Redmi 2
Best Mobile Tablet
Microsoft Surface Pro 4
Best Wearable Mobile
Technology
Well Being Digital Ltd for ActivHearts
Best Connected Consumer
Electronic Device
Samsung for Samsung Gear S2
Best Mobile Infrastructure
Ericsson for Ericsson Radio System
Best Mobile Technology
Breakthrough
ZTE for Pre5G Massive MIMO base station
Best Technology Enabler
Accedian and SK Telecom for QoE-Aware SDN Control
Best Solution for Growing
Smaller or Independent Networks
Athonet for Athonet Software Broadband Mobile Core Solution
Best Mobile Security or
Anti-Fraud Solution
Trustonic for Trustonic Secured Platform
Broadband for All:
Outstanding LTE Contribution
Accenture, Oi and TIM Brasil for RAN Sharing
Outstanding Overall
Mobile Technology – The CTOs’ Choice
ZTE for Pre5G Massive MIMO base station
Government Leadership
Award
The Federal Government of the United Mexican States
Spectrum for Mobile
Broadband Award
The Government of the Republic of Colombia
Chairman’s Award
Aircel, Bharti Airtel, Idea Cellular, Tata Teleservices, Telenor and Vodafone
for outstanding achievement in support of the GSMA’s Mobile Connect Initiative
Connected Women
Leadership in the Industry
Roshan
This year’s “Chairman’s Award” was presented during a special
ceremony on Sunday evening and recognised the collaborative work of six of
India’s mobile operators for their work in support of GSMA Mobile Connect, a
mobile phone-based authentication solution.
Speaking at the presentation, Jon Fredrik Baksaas, GSMA
Chairman, said: “Here at Mobile World Congress last year, I challenged our
industry to think big and to make Mobile Connect available to more than one
billion consumers around the world and I’m pleased to report that we surpassed
that, reaching the 2 billion consumer milestone. These six Indian operator
worked ceaselessly throughout 2015 and early 2016 in support of this goal and
together, they are worthy winners of the “Chairman’s Award” for 2016.”
The Glomo Awards are judged by independent experts, analysts,
journalists, academics and, in some cases, mobile operator representatives. The
winner of the “Outstanding Overall Mobile Technology – the CTOs’ Choice” award
was selected by a panel of industry-leading CTOs from the worldwide operator
community.
2016 Glomo Awards Sponsors
The 2016 Glomo Awards sponsors and partners include: Blancco Technology Group,
Category Sponsor for "Best Mobile Technology"; Softonic, Category
Sponsor for "Best Mobile Apps"; and Techradar, Official Media
Partner.
Full information on the 2016 Glomo Awards can be found at www.globalmobileawards.com.
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About the GSMA
The GSMA represents the interests of mobile operators worldwide, uniting nearly
800 operators with more than 250 companies in the broader mobile ecosystem,
including handset and device makers, software companies, equipment providers
and internet companies, as well as organisations in adjacent industry sectors.
The GSMA also produces industry-leading events such as Mobile World Congress,
Mobile World Congress Shanghai and the Mobile 360 Series conferences.
For more information, please visit the GSMA corporate website
at www.gsma.com.
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