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The 16th Annual Excellence Awards recognizes the organizations making a significant contribution to the acceleration of digital transformation throughout the industry, across six key categories. Each of the finalists listed below has been selected from a wider pool of nominees. A final round of independent judging will take place in the coming weeks to determine a winner in each category, to be announced at DTW23 – Ignite. Please join us in congratulating our finalists.

2023

Excellence in autonomous operations

Vivo Config: Telefonica Brasil Autonomous Configuration System
telefonica
China Telecom wireless autonomous network
China Telecom
Intelligent network operation based on AI knowledge graph
China Unicom
Autonomous Networks Empower the Development of Emerging Services
China MobileHuawei Technologies
Talent For Tomorrow:Moving to Human-Robot Collaboration to Deliver Autonomous Networks
Huawei China Unicom
Data Driven Cognitive Operation to support MOCN Environment for Digital Nasional Berhad (DNB)
Ericsson Digital Nasional Berhad

Excellence in customer experience

Seamless and Friction Free Digital Customer experience
Tecnotree MTN Uganda
NiceMobil & Moflix’s all digital telco delivers multiple industry firsts & customer-centric focus
Moflix NiceMobil
AI-Driven Customer Complaint Handling Journey Delivers Distinctive Customer Experience
ADVANCED INFO SERVICE (AIS)Huawei Technologies
One Team, One Metric: CEI-Powered Digital Transformation
Telecom Argentina
VNPT Customer Experience Transformation Model
VNPT
STC reinvents customer experience for fixed broadband
Nokia STC

Excellence in IT agility

IT Transformation through system and process innovation using TMF653/656
Telstra
Accelerate and standardize digital transformation using TMF standards
EricssonSTC
Casa by Telus: a unified, AI-powered and cloud-based platform for omni-channel journeys
Telus
5G Full-service Cloud Billing-Center
China Unicom CAICT
Verizon Business OpenAPI Compliant Domain APIs
Verizon
IT Agility for transformative mobile operations for China Mobile
Nokia China Mobile

Excellence in market innovation

“Value First Network as a Service” Creates Sustainable Business Growth
China MobileHuawei Technologies
telebirr realizing the digital economy and moving beyond connectivity
Ethio TelecomHuawei Technologies
China Mobile and Huawei Build China largest 5G Smart Mine in Ansteel
Huawei TechnologiesChina Mobile
Verizon Partner Integrations Framework
Verizon
Netcracker revolutionizes and automates end-to-end partner management for T-Mobile USA
Netcracker t-mobile
re: Imagining the connected home, leveraging TMF’s Open Digital Architecture (ODA) and a B2B2X open ecosystem
AWSTelus

Excellence in network agility

Turk Telekom NOVA
Turk TelekomInnova IT Solutions
China Unicom’s Edge Computing Platform Based on Cloud Native and NFV
China Unicom99cloud
nbn® Smart Places delivers technology infrastructure for connected communities of the future
NBN Co
An Operation Mode Change by Building the World’s Largest Centralized Network Resource Center
Whale Cloud China Unicom
SMART NOC – B2B Service Assurance Digitization for 5G Era
Accenture Bharti Airtel
Netcracker and Vodafone Oman deliver a digital-first experience in a highly competitive market
Netcracker Vodafone

Excellence in serving people & planet

Verizon improves energy efficiencies for a better planet and a better balance sheet
Verizon
Supporting connectivity, the lifeblood of daily life, with expanded protection in dangerous times
OptivaLifecell Ukraine
Telefónica´s plan for energy efficiency promotion and emissions reduction
telefonica
How Amdocs’ Tech for Good program develops digital solutions to solve social & environmental issues
amdocs
Taming energy consumption and cutting carbon emission with Nokia AVA for Telefonica Germany
Nokia telefonica
MTN Mobile Money Open APIs
Ericsson MTN South Africa

Winners will be announced during DTW23 – Ignite in Copenhagen. Join the celebration on 19 September 2023.

 

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