Category 8 – GSMA Chairman’s Award 2013
About this category:
The GSMA Chairman’s Award is the annual recognition of outstanding achievement in the mobile industry. The Chairman’s Award honours personal or company contributions as well as achievements that span entire organisations, over a sustained period of time. They all share one thing in common – to have served the global industry and engendered a continuing vitality in the evolution of the mobile industry.
This discretionary award is a personal honour for the recipient who is chosen by the GSMA’s Chairman alone.
Past Winners include:
| 2002: | NTTDoCoMo, Inc. |
| 2003: | Sir Christopher Gent, Vodafone Group |
| 2004: | Zhang LiGui, China Mobile |
| 2005: | The Brazilian Ministry of Communications |
| 2006: | Jorma Ollila, Nokia Corporation |
| 2007: | Mohamed Ibrahim, Chairman, Celtel |
| 2008: | Sunil Bharti Mittal, Founder, Chairman and Group CEO of Bharti Enterprises |
| 2009: | Jim Balsille & Mike Lazaridis, Co-CEOs of Research in Motion (RIM) |
| 2010: | Carl-Henric Svanberg, Former CEO of Ericsson |
| 2011: | Wang Jianzhou, Executive Chairman, China Mobile |
| 2012: | NTTDOCOMO, KDDI & SOFTBANK of Japan |
The 2013 GSMA Chairman’s Award Winner will be announced at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on Monday 25th February 2013.
