TINTSWALO BALOYI
JOHANNESBURG – IF nominations are anything to go by, the eagerly-anticipated AfricaCom Awards will be a two-horse race between Orange and Huawei.
The French multinational telecommunications corporation and Chinese multinational networking and telecommunications firm, are the most nominated companies for the awards that will be among the highlights of AfricaCom, scheduled for Cape Town, South Africa between November 14 and 17.
They have a significant footprint in the continent.
Orange leads with nine nominations and Huawei have seven.
The AfricaCom Awards celebrate and pay tribute to the industry initiatives that improve connectivity and digital transformation across the continent.
They are rated as the most prestigious awards in the continent’s technology, media and telecommunications (TMT) sector.
CAJ News Africa, the pan-African news agency, and TechnoAfrica, its TMT subsidiary, are AfricaCom Media Partners.
FULL LIST OF CATEGORIES AND NOMINEES
Best Network Improvement
Mauritius – Telecom Accelerated FTTH deployment
ZTE Corporation – ZTE Uni-RAN
Tigo Rwanda – Best Network Improvement
Comsol – Comsol Fibre Connect
WIOCC – Further enhancing WIOCC’s unique pan-African network
MTN and Huawei – MTN Catapult Project for Network Improvement
PCCW Global – MEF Certified Ethernet Service
Delivering Excellence in Customer Experience
Barclays Africa Group Limited – Data Platform
Alepo Technologies – Alepo’s Data Monetization Platform
Polystar – Kalix
Mahindra Comviva – Airtel Money “Tap Tap” Tanzania powered by Nearex and Mahindra Comviva’ s mobiquity® Money
Orange – Mobile Call Excellence Service
Nokia and Safaricom – Nokia Customer Experience Management on Demand (CEMoD) solution
Airtel Africa – Airtel Tugabane
Huawei Technologies – Best User Experience with Huawei CEM
Tecnotree – Tecnotree’s Loyalty and Campaign Management System
Most Significant Commercial LTE Development
Mobile Telephone Networks – LTE-U network
Telekom Networks Malawi Limited 4G-LTE
Nokia with Vodacom Tanzania Vodacom Tanzania – LTE (4G) Commercial Launch
MTC & Huawei Technologies Commercial LTE-A Network in Namibia
Best Cost Efficiency Solution for Africa
Subah Telecom – Tackling SIM Box Fraud in Guinea – Subah Telecom
Orange – Smart Energy Metering
Orange – Orange MEA Open Tech Hub
Newtec – Mx-DMA®
CSG – International Managed Services
Huawei Technologies – Huawei’s Hybrid Power Solution
Best Marketing Campaign
TelServ – NumbersOnline
ZOL, a Liquid Telecom brand – Connect Now campaign
Liquid Telecom – AfriCan
Upstream – Cash Quest
Unitel – Unitel FIT
Best Connectivity Solution for Africa
World Telecom Labs – Vivada for rural wholesale networks
Comsol – Comsol Fibre Connect
Newtec – Newtec Dialog® multiservice platform with Mx-DMA®
WIOCC – WIOCC’s Johannesburg Metropolitan Area Network: overcoming the high cost of local loop delivery
Huawei Technologies – Huawei’s WTTx Solution
Vanu Inc – Rural connectivity as a coverage service
Best Mobile Financial Service
Hello Paisa – International money transfer
Tigo Ghana – Tigo Cash – Rice Mobile Finance
Mahindra Comviva – Airtel Money “Tap Tap” Tanzania powered by Nearex and Mahindra Comviva’ s mobiquity® Money
Mahindra Comviva – Econet Wireless’ EcoCash Savings Club powered by Mahindra Comviva’s mobiquity® Money
Orange – NFC Electronic Change
Airtel Africa – Airtel Money Kutchova – Mobile Money Loan Service
Best App for Africa
Sliide Airtime – Sliide Airtime
Mauritius Telecom – Traffic Watch Mauritius
RTI – RTI MOBILE
Unitel – Unitel FIT
Orange – My Communities App
Airtel Africa – Airtel Tap2Bill
Most Innovative Service – “The Business of Tomorrows”
UROS – Uni-fi Roaming Solutions
UROS – Cloud Hosted Roaming Solution
ZTE – Corporation ZTE iTOP( intellgent traffic operation platform)
Orange Business Services – Orange’s Hybrid VPN, SDN, NFV Next Generation Network Services for Africa
Barclays Africa Group Limited – BankBot
Orange – My Communities App
Orange – Smart Energy Metering
Telkom SA – Openserve Business Unit SDN Implementation within the Packet and Optical Transport Network
Airtel Africa – Airtel Advanced Call Completion (Adcom)
MTN and Huawei – MTN Music+ Service
Best Pan-African Initiative
BRCK – Kio Kit – Digital Classroom in a Box
Eskimi – Eskimi DSP
iSON BPO – iSON BPO
Airtel Africa – Artist Management Platform
Huawei Technologies – Huawei Digital inCloud
Orange – Orange 303 Partner Store
CEO of the Year Award
No shortlist The winning CEO will be announced live at the awards evening.
Changing Lives Award
Vodacom – Vodacom e-school
Tigo Ghana – Mobile Birth Registration
Mahindra Comviva – Econet Wireless’ EcoCash Savings Club powered by Mahidra Comviva’s mobiquity® Money
Unitel – STOP Malaria
SES Techcom Services – SATMED
WIOCC – Connecting and extending connectivity in Somalia
Ericsson – Ericsson and Grundfos – Water ATM
– Guardian
