One of the highlights of this week's Mobile World Congress is the GSMA Global Mobile Awards. This year they were presented in a two-part ceremony by Stephen Fry, who hosted both the afternoon and evening events.
Best Mobile Game: Iricom – The Last City; Fight For Your Life!
Best Mobile Music Service: Odyssey Music Group – Deezer
Best Mobile Advertising or Marketing: CLANMO and OgilvyOne – The IKEA PS Mobile Interior Planning Tool
Best Mobile TV Service: CBS Mobile – TV.COM
Best Mobile Location Based Advertising Campaign: R/GA – Nokia viNe
Best Mobile Enterprise Product or Service: Research In Motion – BlackBerry Enterprise Server v5.0
Best Mobile Internet Service: adaffix – YELLIX
Best Mobile Money Service: Safaricom – M-PESA
Best Use of Mobile for Social and Economic Development: Grameen Foundation, MTN Uganda, and Google – The Grameen Foundation Application Laboratory (AppLab)
Best Mobile Money for the Unbanked Service: Zain Bahrain – ZAP
The Green Mobile Award for Best Green Programme, Product or Initiative: VNL – solar-powered GSM base station
Green Network Award: Mocambique Celular (mcel) – Eco Naturalmente (Naturally Thinking Green)
Best Network Technology Advance: SkyCross – SkyCross iMAT (isolated mode antenna technology) Antennas
Best Service Delivery Platform: Huawei Technologies – Huawei SDP solution
Best Billing & Customer Care Solution: Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) – You Individual Optimal Tariff Plan
Best Mobile Technology Breakthrough: Orange – Mobile High Definition (HD) Voice
Best Mobile Handset or Device: HTC – HTC Hero
Best Mobile Connected Device (non-handsets): Novatel Wireless – MiFi Intelligent Mobile Hotspot
Government Leadership Award: Kenya
GSMA Chairman's Award: Carl-Henric Svanberg, Former CEO of Ericsson and currently Chairman of BP
Mobile Industry Personality of the Year as Voted for by the Media: Steve Jobs, Co-Founder and CEO Apple
Mobile Innovation Grand Prix: Ubidyne - Antenna Embedded Radio