MWC Barcelona has announced the winners of GLOMO Awards 2020. The 25th-Anniversary awards could not be held in Barcelona due to health reason, however, the awards will be given during this week and next week.
The GSMA has honoured Dr Mike Short with 25 Years of Connecting People Award. Mike over the years in his various roles, has promoted the benefits and the enormous impact it has of the mobile industry on our society. Many of us will not be aware that it was Mike who created the GLOMOs during his tenure as the first DG of the GSMA 25 years ago.
Teletimes congratulates all the worthy winners of 25th Glomo Awards, especially Huawei for 5G Leadership Award.
Category 1: Mobile Technology
1a. Best Mobile Network Infrastructure
Vodafone, Parallel Wireless and Telecom Infra Project for Global OpenRAN Deployments
1b. Best Mobile Technology Breakthrough (Companies over $10M Annual Global Revenue)
Ericsson for Ericsson Spectrum Sharing (ESS)
1c. Best Mobile Technology Breakthrough (Companies under $10M Annual Global Revenue)
KaiOS for KaiOS
1d. Best Network Software Breakthrough (Companies over $10M Annual Global Revenue)
Parallel Wireless for OpenRAN Controller and Network Software
1e. Best Network Software Breakthrough (Companies under $10M Annual Global Revenue)
Cohere Technologies for Improved 4G and 5G FDD/TDD Networks
1f. Best Mobile Authentication & Security Solution
Nuance Communications Inc. for Nuance Gatekeeper
1g. 5G Leadership Award
Huawei for Gear up with Huawei’s E2E 5G Products
1h. 5G Industry Partnership Award
China Unicom, BMW & Huawei for 5G Digital Factory Enable Automobile Manufacturing Digital Transformation
1i. CTO Award
Ericsson for Ericsson Spectrum Sharing (ESS)
Category 2: Connected Consumer
2a. Best Mobile Operator Service for Consumers
Vimplecom for Beeline & Liza Alert
2b. Best Mobile Service for the Connected Life
CalAmp for Here Comes The Bus
2c. Most Innovative Mobile App
Turkcell for BiP Translate
Category 3: Industry X
3a. Best Mobile Innovation for Work
China Eastern Airlines, China Unicom & Huawei for 5G Smart Travel in Airport
3b. Best Mobile Innovation for Health and Biotech
Flare for Flare
3c. Best Mobile Innovation for Automotive
SK Telecom for Smart Fleet: Data Analytics Platform for Intelligent Mobility
3d. Best Mobile Innovation for Payment and Fintech
Juvo for Financial Identity as a Service (FiDaaS)
3e. Best Mobile Innovation for Smart Cities
China Mobile (Zhejiang) and Huawei for NB-IoT Smart City Fire Control
3f. Best Mobile Innovation for Media and Entertainment
LG Uplus for U+VR 5G
3g. Best Mobile Innovation for Building Trust in the Digital Age
Samsung Electronics for Knox Security Platform
3h. Tech of the Future Award
Huawei for Atlas 900 AI Cluster – The Pinnacle of AI Compute for Future Inclusion
Category 4: Device
4a: Best Smartphone
OnePlus 7T Pro
4b: Disruptive Device Innovation
Qualcomm X5X 5G platforms
4d. Best Connected Consumer Device
Vasco Electronics for Vasco Mini2
Category 5: Tech4Good
5a. Best Mobile Innovation for Emerging Markets
Safaricom for DigiFarm
5b. Best Mobile Innovation supporting Emergency or Humanitarian Situations
Mapswipe for MapSwipe
5c. Best Use of Mobile for Accessibility & Inclusion
SK Telecom for Driving Assistance Solution for hearing-impaired taxi driver
5d. Best Mobile Innovation for Climate Action
Huawei for Huawei PowerStar™ Solution, 3-Level AI-Based Energy Saving solution to provide end-to-end Network Energy Saving
5e. Best Mobile Innovation for Enhancing Children’s Lives
Accenture for SAATHI – Autism Therapy at your Fingertips.
5f. Outstanding Mobile Contribution to the UN SDGs
KT for Global Epidemic Prevention Platform
Category 6: Government Leadership Award
6a. Government Leadership Award
The Government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Category 7: Outstanding Achievement
7a. Outstanding Contribution to the Mobile Industry
Safaricom
7b. Women4Tech – Industry Leadership Award
Elena Sinel, Founder of Teens In AI
7c. Diversity in Tech Award
Teens In AI for Teens In AI
7d. 25 Years of Connecting People Award
Dr Mike Short
Category 9: YoMo STEAM Activity for Young People Award
9a. YoMo STEAM Activity for Young People Award
SK Telecom for Happy Coding School for Adolescents with Special Needs
