GSMA Announces 2022 GLOMO Awards Winners

March 2022, Barcelona: The GSMA has announced the winners of the 2022 Global Mobile (GLOMO) Awards at MWC Barcelona. The Awards celebrate the companies, individuals and governments who have driven the most innovation in the mobile industry.

“Congratulations to all of our winners and the nominees of the GSMA’s GLOMO Awards 2022. You personify this year’s theme of Connectivity Unleashed,” said John Hoffman, CEO of GSMA Ltd. “This year’s event is more important than ever. Celebrating the innovation and brilliance shaping the mobile ecosystem is crucial. It’s incredible to see the meaningful impact the mobile ecosystem is having in this ever-changing digital world.”

Co-hosted by Justin Springham of Mobile World Live and Sasha Twining, the winners were announced virtually on Wednesday, 2 March, and streamed to audiences around the globe on LinkedIn.

The GLOMO Awards are the most prestigious accolade in the mobile industry. The awards are judged by more than 200 independent industry experts, analysts, journalists, academics, and mobile operator representatives.

This year’s Government Leadership Award was judged by Sigve Brekke, President and CEO of Telenor; Ambassador David Gross, Partner at Wiley; and John Giusti, Chief Regulatory Officer at the GSMA.

The winners of the 2022 GLOMO Awards are:

Mobile Technology category:

CTO’s Choice Award

Samsung Networks for fully virtualised 5G RAN solution

Best Mobile Network Infrastructure

Huawei for New FDD Gigaband MIMO Modules

Best Mobile Technology Breakthrough

Samsung Networks for fully virtualised 5G RAN solution

Best Network Software Breakthrough

Rakuten Mobile for 5G Open RAN

Best Digital Tech Breakthrough (Companies under $10M Annual Global Revenue)

AccelerComm for 5G physical layer IP for Open RAN that Maximises Spectral Efficiency

Best Mobile Authentication & Security Solution

AdaptiveMobile Security, an Enea Company, for the World’s First Unified 5G Network Security Solution

5G Industry Partnership Award

China Unicom Beijing and Huawei for 5G Capital’s Meta Life on Gigabit Society

Industry X category:

Best Mobile Operator Service for Connected Consumers

Veon Group for MobileID

Best Mobile Innovation for the Connected Economy

Tianjin Port, Huawei and China Mobile for Port Renaissance, Intelligent Twin empowers a Smart, Green Tianjin Port

Best Mobile Innovation for the Connected Human

Huawei for 5G Smart Healthcare Lights up Hainan Healthy Island

Best Mobile Innovation for Connected Living

Safaricom for M-PESA App

Device category:

Best Smartphone

Apple iPhone 13 Pro Max

Disruptive Device Innovation Award

Oppo for its Hinge & Display Integration on the FIND N

Best Connected Consumer Device

ZTE for Next-Gen Cloud AI Home Security Camera Pro

Tech 4 Good category:

Best Mobile Innovation for Emerging Markets

Starlogik IP LLC for StarZRO

Best Mobile Innovation supporting Emergency or Humanitarian Situations

Hormuud Telecoms for The WAAFI APP

Best Mobile Innovation for Accessibility & Inclusion

SK Telecom and Tuat for AI-based Visual Assistant Service ‘Sullivan Plus X NUGU’

Best Mobile Innovation for Climate Action

China Mobile and Huawei for Green 5G Project

Outstanding Mobile Contribution to the UN SDGs

Safaricom, Close the Gap and Huawei for DigiTruck Project

Government Leadership category:

Government leadership Award

Government of Spain

Outstanding Achievement category:

Outstanding Contribution to the Mobile Industry

Mr. Houlin Zhao, Secretary-General, ITU

Diversity in Tech Award:

Vodafone for #ChangeTheFace Leadership Alliance

Best Innovation for COVID-19 Response & Recovery:

Telit and Controlant for Cellular IoT rollout for COVID-19 vaccine distribution

4YFN category:

4YFN Award:

HumanITcare, using Artificial Intelligence to improve access to healthcare

For further information on GLOMO Awards winners please visit www.globalmobileawards.com.

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Blockchain platform for trading cards

Forward31 launches start-up Fanzone

Berlin. Porsche drives its digitization strategy forward: through its company builder Forward31, the Stuttgart-based sports car manufacturer is launching the start-up Fanzone. The young company develops and operates a platform for digital trading cards. Thus, Porsche is opening a new business area in online gaming and digital entertainment.

The Berlin-based start-up offers an online marketplace for trading cards. Sports fans can collect and exchange digital player cards over Fanzone and use them in different game variants. The special feature of this interactive offering is that the company uses blockchain technology for the platform. This enables the creation of so-called non-fungible tokens (NFTs), i.e., digital objects that cannot be copied. NFTs guarantee the rarity and identity of collectables. Thanks to verifiable ownership, fans can benefit from value increases, for example, for limited editions. Fanzone’s first partner is the German Football Association (DFB).

New marketing channels for sports institutions and managers
“The demand for classic trading cards and albums has been unbroken for decades,” says Christian Knörle, Head of Company Building at Porsche Digital. “With Fanzone, we are now digitizing this promising market. We look forward to strategically supporting Fanzone and the team with Dirk Weyel, Björn Hesse, and Claudio Weck on this journey.” The founders bring along many years of experience in gaming, sports marketing, and blockchain technology.

In addition to the offering for fans, the platform also provides new marketing channels for sports institutions and officials – as the digital collectables are to depict various sports and leagues in the future. Currently, football player cars for the German women’s and men’s national teams, the U21 youth team, and players from the German third league can be collected. Further partnerships are being planned.

“We are convinced that innovative, digital interaction platforms between sports fans and their favourite teams offer huge growth potential,” says Dirk Weyel, Chief Executive Officer of Fanzone. “That’s why we’re excited to be able to build such a platform sustainably with a strong partner like Forward31.”

Porsche’s start-up ecosystem
Porsche is consistently driving the expansion of its start-up ecosystem forward to strategically increase its innovative strength. In addition to creating start-ups through the company builder Forward31, the sports car manufacturer uses various other instruments: the company invests directly in promising young businesses through its investment unit, Porsche Ventures. With the APX accelerator programme, a joint venture between Porsche and the media company Axel Springer, Porsche focuses on further developing companies that are in an earlier start-up phase. Porsche is also a partner of the open innovation platform “Startup Autobahn”.

About Forward31
The company builder Forward31 is a business unit of Porsche Digital. The focus is on building a portfolio of promising start-ups that tap into new target groups and value chains beyond the core automotive business. Jointly with entrepreneurs, these are founded and further developed as independent companies. Further information can be found at: www.forward31.com