Exciting World Communications Awards are Announced

WCA 2007 Shortlists


Once again, the number of impressive entries this year has caused our expert judges many hours of contemplation - and much heated debate!
We are now delighted to announce the finalists for the WCA 2007:

Best Brand
Bharti Airtel Ltd.
iiNet Limited
Orange Business Services
StarHub Ltd
TEO LT, AB
The Egyptian Company for Mobile Services (Mobinil)


Best Content Service
Bharti Airtel Ltd.
BT Vision
Interoute Communications Limited
MINICK Group
SpinVox
TTX Ltd, 'Teletrax'

Best Customer Service
BT Group plc
Cable & Wireless
Easynet
mobilkom austria AG
NTTComOne
Orange Business Services
Rackspace Managed Hosting
TTX Ltd, 'Teletrax'
Vanco

Best Global Operator
BT Group plc
NTT Communications
Orange Business Services
Vanco

Best Managed Service
Easynet
NTT Communications
Orange Business Services
Vanco
Verizon Business


Best Mobile Operator
Bharti Airtel Ltd.
Orange Business Services
T-Mobile UK
Telstra 3

Best New Service
3 Italia
COLT Telecom Group
Globe Telecom
Orange Business Services
SpinVox


Best Operator in a Developing Market
Afsat Communications Africa Limited
Roshan (Telecom Development Company Afghanistan Ltd)
Afghan Wireless
Local Servicos de Telecommunicacoes
Mobilink GSM
AES Communications Rio de Janeiro (AES Com)
JSC Kazakhtelecom

Best Project Management
Orange Business Services
PCCW Global
CH2M HILL (Managed Services for Cable & Wireless Isle of Man Wireless Network Rollout)
Vanco
Tech Mahindra Limited

Best Technology Foresight
ip.accesss ltd.
Nortel
Entone, Inc.
AT&T
Blueslice Networks
Jasper Wireless
IPWireless
Microsoft Connected Services Sandbox


Best Wholesale Carrier
TeliaSonera International Carrier
iBasis
BT
AT&T
Belgacom International Carrier Services SA
VSNL (Rich Business)
AES Communications Rio de Janeiro


The Convergence Award
BT (21CN)
Orange Business Services (Unik)
OnRelay
BT (Business One Plan)
Orange Business Services (Business Everywhere )

We are proud to share the announcement the following teams and individuals from across the global telecoms industry that have created significant changes and progress over the past year. These are the Best Changemaker finalists:



Vishvas Sethi (Botswana Telecommunications Corporation)

Vish has led the transformation of a small African service provider into the world of IP, focusing on Internet and managed services. His team developed and launched broadband in the country, where they are now focusing on bringing world-class IP services.



Aditya Kumar Gupta and Randeep Sethi (VSNL)

Solution architect and strategic account manager respectively, this team challenged existing internal practices to make the customer an integral part of the project from presales to implementation. In this way, they brought about significant changes in internal approach as well as winning over the customer.



John Gonner, Mike Wright and the Telstra Wireless team (Telstra Corporation Ltd)

The Wireless team realised a critical part of the Telstra CEO's Plan for Australia - to bring broadband to everyone as rapidly as possible - by building the Next G wireless broadband network in a record 10 months. The Next G network was launched simultaneously across metropolitan, regional and rural Australia in October 2006, offering wireless broadband and 3G services to many regional Australians for the first time



V.Gribanov, V. Pugay, M. Ralko, N. Kudasova, T. Niyazov, S. Ulibayeva, A. Omarov, A.Bogdanov, R.Abykhanov (JSC Kazakhtelecom)

With the efforts of V. Gribanov and his team, this former monopolist has made great contributions to changing the telecoms environment in Kazakhstan and in the creation of favourable opportunities for operators.



Mario Domingo, Head of Service Creation Division (Globe Telecom)

Mario leads the innovation initiatives of the company, enabling a long view of services and potential businesses. He has also led the company's project management competency and is a sought-after speaker worldwide in topics like SDP, mobile content and cross-cultural diversity management.

Congratulations to you all from me Suzanne Bowen, DIDXchange and the Super Technologies, Inc. team!