A top crowd of nearly 600 mobile channel professionals saw the biggest group of double winners in the history of the Mobile News Awards,
Sky Mobile, Plan,com, Belkin International, Vodafone Business and Music Magpie all scooped two awards each in the Awards ceremony at the Park Plaza Westminster Bridge last night where hundreds of mobile industry guests parties until 2am.
Vodafone Business left the building with two trophies for Best 5G User Case and Best Network for Business).
Sky Mobile won Best Customer Service for Consumers and Best Innovative Service (Piggybank).
Music Magpie won Best Online Retailer and Best Secondary Market Provider.
Belkin International scored in Best Accessory Manufacturer and Best Environmental and Sustainability Programme.
Plan,com collected the awards for Best MVNO and Best Airtime Partner Portal
A total of 111 entries competed for the top award in 21 categories judged by 16 mobile industry experts who spent a day at the InterContinental Park Lane business centre discussing and scrutinising 111 entries (above).
The judges were: Clive Bayley, Afi Chaudhary, Shan Vyas, Lizzie Bailey, Karl Liriano. Dane Hipkin, Mark Curtis-Wood, Gareth Elliott, Ru Bhikhar, Peter Richardson. Runar Bjorlhovde, Aman Bachu, Andy Coughlin, Simon Dunn, Paul Nield, Steve Fraser.
The most competitive categories were Best Customer Service for Business and Best Secondary Market Provider which attracted a dozen entries each, Best Online Retailer (9) and Best Customer Service for Consumers (7).
For all the winners and how the judges came to their decisions see the Winners Book
Mobile News Awards 2003
Results
Best 5G User Case
Vodafone
Best Accessories Distributor
Fonua
Commended
Mobio Distribution
Best Accessories Manufacturer
Belkin
Commended
ZAGG
Best Airtime Partner Portal
Plan.com
Best B2B Dealer
Aerial Direct
Commended
Uplands Mobiles
Best Community Care Initiative
Radius Connect Solutions
Commended
Sky Mobile
Best Customer Service Business
Uplands Mobiles
Commended
The One Point
Cellhire
Best Customer Service Consumer
Sky Mobile
Commended
The Techout
Lebara
Best Devices Distributor
Eurostar
Commended
Exertis
Best Gadget Phone Insurance Partner
Asurion
Commended
Assurant
Best Innovative Product
Samsung
Commended
Belkin
Ocushield
Best Innovative Service
Sky Mobile (Piggybank)
Commended
Cellhire
Device Network
Twig Group
Best Mobile Billing Platform
Tekton Billing
Commended
Union Street
Best MVNO
Plan,com
Commended
Lebara
Sky Mobile
Best MVNO partner
BT Wholesale
Commended
Three UK Wholesale
Best Network For Business
Vodafone Business
Commended
Three Business
Best Network for Consumers
Lebara
Commended
Sky Mobile
Best Online Retailer
MusicMagpie
Commended
Mobiles.co.uk
Best Secondary Market Facilitator
Compare and Recycle
Commended
Twig Group
Zone Global
Device Network
Best Secondary Market Provider
MusicMagpie
Commended
Mozillion
Mazuma
Best Service and Repair Provider
Pocket Geek Tech Repair
Commended
Samsung
Best Sustainability and Environmental Programme
Belkin International
Commended
Juice Global