Airtel, Mahindra Comviva and Indus bags 2013 Global Mobile Awards

Bharti Airtel, Mahindra Comviva, and Indus Towers have bagged an award each at 2013 Global Mobile Awards held at the GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

Bharti Airtel bagged the award for the Best Application using Network APIs for my airtel app. Comviva bagged the award for the Best Consumer Mobile Service for Mahindra Comviva's mobiquity MFS platform powering mTicketing service for Bangladesh Railways; and Indus Towers bagged the Green Mobile Award for green sites project.

The GSMA announced the winners of the 18th Annual Global Mobile awards, held at the GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The winners were honored in an afternoon ceremony hosted by writer, actor and comedian, David Walliams.

Walliams entertained nominees and attendees with a comic introduction to the ceremony. He was joined on stage by representatives from sponsors McAfee, Myriad and Telmap, and media partners CNBC, Fortune and Time, who co-presented awards, as well as John Hoffman, CEO, GSMA, and members of the judging panel.

"Through these awards, we are proud to shine the light on the mobile industry's many innovators and leaders, from all corners of the world," said John Hoffman, CEO, GSMA.

This year's new categories reflected the industry's reach into many new sectors and we received more than 600 high-quality entries from across the mobile ecosystem and we would like to congratulate all Global Mobile Awards winners and thank the many hundreds of companies and organisations that support these awards by entering each year added John Hoffman.

Also announced today were the Government Leadership Awards, which recognise governments from around the world for their innovation and leadership in use of mobile technologies in the public sector.

The winners of the 2013 Global Mobile Awards are: Best Mobile Health Product or Service-- MIPsoft for BlindSquare; Best Mobile Education or Learning Product or Service-- Mobilink for SMS Based Literacy program; Best Mobile Product or Service for Automotive-- BMW i, MINI, Sixt and Vodafone Group for DriveNow Premium Car Sharing; Best NFC/Mobile Money Product or Service-- Etisalat for Flous - The Etisalat Commerce Programme; Best Mobile Publishing Product or Service-- Ver Se Innovation for NewsHunt; Best Mobile Innovation for ‘Smart Cities'-- Streetline for Parker; Best Mobile Enabled Consumer Electronics Device-- Samsung Electronics for Samsung GALAXY Camera; Best Enterprise Mobile Service-- Mobilelron for Version 5 Complete Enterprise Persona; and Best Consumer Mobile Service-- Comviva for Mahindra Comviva's mobiquity MFS platform powering mTicketing service for Bangladesh Railways.

Some of the other categories include: Best Advertising or Marketing on Mobile-- McCann Worldgroup (Hong Kong) for Chok! Chok! Chok!; Best Network Product or Solution for Serving Customers-- NTT DOCOMO for Hanashite Hon'yaku, world's first automatic voice translation service;
Best Product, Initiative or Service in Emerging Markets-- Ericsson for Amazon Connection- a digital inclusion program in the Amazon; GSMA mWomen Best Mobile Product or Service for Women in Emerging Markets-- Asiacell for Almas Line; and Best Use of Mobile in Emergency or Humanitarian Situations-- Vodafone Foundation for Vodafone Instant Network.The other awards were: The Green Mobile Award-- Indus Towers for Green Sites Project; Best Mobile App for Consumers-- Facebook; Best Mobile App for Enterprise-- Evernote; Judges Choice - Best Overall Mobile App-- Waze; Most Innovative Mobile App-- McCann Worldgroup (Hong Kong) for Chok! Chok! Chok!; Smartphone Application Challenge-- AT&T for Application Resource Optimizer (ARO); Best Application using Network APIs-- Bharti Airtel Limited for my airtel app; Best Smartphone-- Samsung Galaxy S3; Best Feature phone or entry level phone-- Nokia Asha 305; Device Manufacturer of the Year-- Samsung; Best Mobile Tablet-- Google and Asus for Nexus 7;

The other categories inlude: Best Mobile Infrastructure-- Samsung Electronics for Smart LTE Networks; Best Mobile Technology Breakthrough-- Accuris Networks for AccuROAM Wi-Fi: Making Wi-Fi a carrier driven extension of GSM for Offload and Roaming; Best Cloud Based Technology for Mobile-- Jasper Wireless cloud-based connected devices platform for machine-to-machine (M2M) and consumer electronics; Best Mobile Safeguard & Security Products and Services-- AdaptiveMobile and Syniverse for Messaging Trust; and Outstanding LTE Contribution-- SK Telecom for 4G LTE with PETA Solution;

For Outstanding Overall Mobile Technology - The CTO's choice it was Samsung Electronics for Smart LTE Networks; Spectrum for Mobile Broadband Award-- Government of New Zealand; Mobile for Development Award-- US Agency for International Development; and m-Government Award-- Government of Moldova.