Entries open for Mobile Messaging Industry Awards 2009

The categories for 2009 are:

• Messaging Infrastructure or Platform
  
• Messaging Application: Business
  
• Messaging Application: Consumer
  
• Messaging Application or Service: Public Sector Award
  
• Messaging Application or Service: Social Use
  
• Mobile Financial Services Solution
  
• Innovation in Messaging
  
• Best New Marketing Campaign Using Messaging

For full details of category requirements, deadlines and how to submit and entry go to www.160characters.org.

The awards aims to recognise the role that mobile messaging plays in the mobile industry, the technology behind it and the varied applications that is being put to.

The 160Characters and Informa Mobile Messaging Awards Gala Dinner will take place at the end of the first day of the 2009 Global Messaging Congress on 23 June, 2009 in London at the Cabinet War Rooms.

Messsaging experts presenting their experiences and opportunities to grow messaging revenues at the event include:

• Mike Short, O2 UK and President, Mobile Data Association
  
• Paulo Simoes, TMN, Portugal
  
• John Eccleston, 3 UK
  
• Wouda du Plessis, MTN South Africa
  
• Jan Mahlstedt, Vodafone Internet Services, Germany
  
• Hans Paulsen, Uganda Telecom
  
• Burak Ertas, Turckcell, Turkey
  
• Alessio Derme, Telecom Italia Mobile
  
• Alex Diehl, T-Mobile International
  
• Olivier Laury, Bouygues Telecom, France

For further details of the awards ceremony and the two day conference agenda go to www.globalmessagingcongress.com.