AfricaCom Awards 2013 - shortlists announced

The short-listed nominees are:

Best Network Improvement

• Seacom - SEACOM's African Ring
  
• Orange - Internet for All
  
• Tigo Tanzania - Network Improvement
  
• Sky Vision - Project Mauritius
  
• Huawei Technologies - Huawei FMC Solution

Best Quality User Experience

• Orange - My Orange
  
• Deloitte Digital - Data Visualisation
  
• Orange - My Orange Facebook
  
• Orange - Internet Everywhere
  
• Roamtech Solutions Ltd - Music Service
  
• Ericsson - Ericsson Multiscreen Self-care
  
• Citrix - T3100 Adaptive Traffic Manager

Best Cost Efficiency Solution for Africa

• World Telecoms Lab - WTL's 2nd Generation VoIP
  
• Liquid Telecom - the longest fibre links in Africa
  
• Conduct Telecommunications - Open access, dark fibre infrastructure in the last mile
  
• Astellia and Econet Wireless - Revenue Assurance
  
• Peer App - Ultraband
  
• TKM Maestro Limited

Rural Telcoms Award

• Orange - Mobile Agricultural Info (Labaroun Kassoua)
  
• Econet Solar International - HPS Home Power Station
  
• Helios Towers Africa - Shared Telecoms Infrastructure Safaricom limited - VUMA online
  
• Vodacom Business Nigeria- Machine-to-Machine (M2M) Solutions
  
• SkyVision - Project Rodrigues

Best Connectivity Solution for Africa

• Orange - ACE Cable
  
• Poynting Antennas - Subterranean Cellular Base Station
  
• Conduct Telecommunications - Open access, dark fibre infrastructure in the last mile
  
• Bluwan - Bluwan's BroadFusion access solution and the Access in Africa project
  
• Liquid Telecom - Liquid's fibre network
  
• Seacom - Remote Peering

Best Marketing Campaign

• OgilvyOne Africa - Marketing Campaign for Airtel Nigeria - Padi Na Good Thing O! - Half Dollar
  
• Orange - Orange African Cup of Nations 2013
  
• Liquid Telecom - 'I Am'
  
• MTN - Welcome to the World

Best Mobile Marketing Campaign

• Orange - E-Recharge & Win -Botswana
  
• OgilvyOne Africa - Mobile Marketing Campaign for Airtel Kenya - FREE Your Smartphone
  
• Mobitainment - The Excella'nt Competition

Best Digital Music Initiative

• OgilvyOne Africa - Online marketing campaign for Airtel FRNDZ Unlimited Offer
  
• Mahindra Comviva - Digital Music Library
  
• Spice VAS Africa Pte Ltd - MOD360
  
• Roamtech Solutions Ltd - Bonyeza 699

Best Mobile Money Service

• Mahindra Comviva - Ecocash
  
• Orange Niger - Mobile Ticketing
  
• Safaricom Limited - M-Shwari
  
• Orange - Orange Money Visa Service
  
• ORANGE - Orange Money International Transfer
  
• Mer Group Telecom Division - Mobile FinaGate

Best App for Africa

• Prezence - Bid or Buy
  
• SatPack Travel- Africa: Live App
  
• Orange - My Orange
  
• Opera Software - Opera Mini
  
• Prezence - Real Time Wine
  
• ydangle apps - Flick

Most Innovative Service

• Intersec - Loyalty Management Suite 5.0
  
• Arabsat - Satellite communication services
  
• TXT Ghana Ltd - Job 1917
  
• Deloitte Digital - Data Visualiser
  
• ORANGE - My Orange Facebook
  
• Safaricom Limited - Cashless Payment Solution
  
• MTN Swaziland - MTN XtraTime
  
• Orange - Mobile Yellow Pages (User Generated Content Directory)
  
• PCCW Global -PCCW Global Products & Services

Best Pan African Initiative

• Tata Communications - Africa Connectivity and Collaboration Expansion
  
• Orange - International Airtime Hub
  
• Orange - Orange Regional Money Transfer
  
• SkyVision - SkyVision South Africa
  
• Seacom - SEACOM's IP Network
  
• PCCW Global -Landlocked But Not Locked Out

Industry Personality of the Year

• Safaricom Limited - Betty Mwangi-Thuo
  
• WIOCC - Chris Wood
  
• Liquid Telecom - Nic Rudnick

Changing Lives Award

• Orange - Mobile Agricultural Info (Labaroun Kassouwa)
  
• Open Idea - Four products: Quality of Service Monitoring, Remote Medical Diagnostics
  
• Orange - EDUCI
  
• MTN Swaziland - MTN Schools' Connectivity Project
  
• YooMee Africa AG - Broadband internet access for students and faculty, University of Douala, Cameroon