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The winners of the 2006 GSM Association Awards were announced the second night of the Conference Gala Evening at Barcelona’s National Palace.

This is eleventh year of the Awards, and the first Gala presentation evening to be held in the Spanish city, new home to the 3GSM World Congress.

“This year’s Awards reflect the diversity, the vitality and the changing dynamics of our industry as the content and communications worlds converge. We are at the beginning of a new era of multimedia, entertainment, music, gaming and TV, in which GSM plays a starring role. Our congratulations to the winners and our thanks to everyone who participated.” said Rob Conway, CEO of the GSM Association.

The 2006 Awards winners were chosen after a two-phase judging process conducted by an international panel of independent industry and subject matter experts, drawn from the academic, analyst, media and entertainment communities.

The winners are:

Mobile Innovation Awards
Winner: Spinvox - Voicemail-to-Text
Mobile Entertainment Awards

Best Made for Mobile Game
Winner: I-play - Skipping Stone

Best Made for Mobile Music Service
Winner: Hi3G Access AB – 3 Music

Best Made for Mobile Video Service
Winner: Tapuz people – BLOGTV
Highly Commended: CinemaElectric – Portable Hollywood ™ Streaming Video & Download Service

Best Made for Mobile Sports Infotainment
Winner: Alcatel – Live Sailing
Highly Commended: Manchester United Limited – MUmobile Portfolio

Mobile Application Awards
Best Mobile Enterprise Product or Service
Winner: iPass – iPass Corporate Access™

Best Mobile Messaging Service
Winner: Cognima – ShoZu

Handsets and Devices Awards
Best GSM Handset or Device
Winner: Nokia – Nokia 8800
Best 3GSM Handset or Device
Winner: Motorola – Motorola RAZR V3x
Highly Commended: Nokia – Nokia N70

Marketing and Promotion Award
Best Broadcast CommercialWinner: Vodafone Ltd – Vodafone Stop the Clock Campaign

Mobile in the Community Award
Best Mobile Community Service or Initiative
Winner: MTN Nigeria Communications Limited – Rural Telephone Project – Phone Lady Initiative
Highly Commended: PageOne Communications – PageOne Connect – Timely advice for teenage mums-to-be

Network Products and Solutions Awards
Best Radio Access Product or Service
Winner: MBO Wireless Inc – AdaptaCell SuperCapacity base station (BTS) using Adaptive Array (AA) software

Best Network Quality Initiative
Winner: TMN with Tektronix – TMN’s Customer Centric Service Quality Management (CCSQM) project usingTektronix’Unified Assurance
Highly Commended: Ditech Communications– Quad Voice Processor (QVP) platform with Voice Quality Assurance™ (VQA™) Release 5 Software

Best Service Delivery Platform
Winner: Motricity – Fuel Mobile Content Delivery Platform 4.0

Best Billing or Customer Care SolutionWinner: IDEACellular Limited – BILL FLASH – A USSD based Application
Highly Commended: T-Mobile (UK) Limited – U-Fix

Best Roaming Product or ServiceWinner: Vodafone Group – ‘Vodafone Passport’voice roaming pricing architecture (part of ‘The Vodafone TravelPromise’proposition)
Highly Commended: Lucent Technologies– Lucent VitalSuite AAA and VPN Firewall Brick Enabling Seamless

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