Introducing innovative, compelling new mobile services helps operators attract new users, deliver new revenue streams and enhance revenues from existing services. With the wealth of GSM and 3G features available to developers, the scope of opportunities for new services is extremely broad. An important criterion for new service platforms is their ability to coexist in harmony with existing systems and complement the service offerings already available, in order for operators to realise a seamless transition in service roll-out, as well as a seamless user experience.
The Best Service Delivery Platform award has been developed to recognise the contribution that middleware and software application developers - as well as a great variety of Value Added Service providers - make to enhancing the service delivery environment and attracting new mobile users.
Please Note: The presentation of this award will be made during a special Mobile World Congress conference session in Barcelona (16-19 February 2009). Full details of the presentations will be confirmed nearer the time. Summarised highlights of all category 6 awards will be featured during the GSMA’s Awards Night Gala Dinner on the evening of Tuesday 17th February 2009.
The category is open to middleware and software development organisations, developers or manufacturers of Value Added Service platforms and applications and providers of Value Added Services. Advances in roaming services have been included in this category for this year and roaming has become an established service in its own right.
Entries can only be submitted for products that are commercially available. The product or service entered must have been launched after December 1st 2007 or will be launched before November 28th 2008. The judges will be looking for answers to the question, "How does this Service application or platform enhance the experience to customers?" They will be looking particularly at the following:
In order to ensure a consistent approach for our judges, entries must be submitted using the Best Service Delivery Platform entry form. Entries not using the web based entry form will not be considered. All entries must be submitted by 5pm (GMT) November 28th 2008.
On the entry form, in addition to submitting contact and company information, you will be asked to answer the following questions (maximum text/character length for your answers also shown in brackets below):
Please note: Use URLs when they are specific/ relevant to the category and will help judges further understand your entry, but due to the number of entries received, judges will not have time to surf company websites looking for further information on the entered product/service or initiative.