As the pinnacle of recognition within the mobile industry, the GSMA Foundry Excellence Awards celebrate the organisations that have demonstrated exceptional creativity, ingenuity, and impact. This overview delvers into the diverse array of winners, showcasing their contributions to advancing mobile technology and addressing key industry challenges.
From transformative products and services to pioneering initiatives, each winners story unfolds, illustrating the power of collaboration and visionary thinking in shaping the future of mobile connectivity. Join us in celebrating these trailblazers and their remarkable achievements in driving progress and innovation across the mobile ecosystem.
5G Monetisation
The 5G Monetisation Excellence Award is a strong testament to how impactful 5G is, going beyond just technology. It shines a light on those who have skilfully turned 5G’s amazing possibilities into real growth, sparking new ideas in the industry. This recognition encourages us to keep using the huge potential of 5G for innovation and making money in new and exciting ways.
Winning project: 5G Automated Farming
ZTE and China Mobile are using 5G connectivity to fully automate rice production on 12,000 acres (almost 19 square miles) of marginal land near Da’an City, Jilin Province. The deployment points to how the world can increase sustainable food production to support a growing population cost-effectively.
Non-core revenues
The Non-Core Revenue honours organisations that have gone beyond their usual ways of doing things. These trailblazers have boldly taken on new paths for growth, showing a real spirit of innovation that moves industries forward. This award shines like a bright light, encouraging other businesses to explore new ideas, break limits, and have a flexible mindset that changes how we think about success and staying strong.
Winning project: Connecting the Unconnected
World Mobile has launched Africa’s first commercial grade telecommunications aerostat in Mozambique, aimed at connecting rural areas affordably and sustainably. The data and insights gathered from several weeks of test flight operations will be used by World Mobile to deploy additional commercial aerostats across Mozambique, Africa, and other under-connected regions around the world.
Digital Transformation
The Digital Transformation Leadership Award lauds those who have masterfully navigated the intricate landscape of technological change with finesse and courage. As the digital revolution reshapes industries and transforms societies, this award highlights the paramount importance of embracing change and innovation.
Winning Project: 5G Connected Drones Promise Better Security
Liberty Global, Unmanned Life and Amazon Web Services (AWS) test 5G-enabled surveillance solution at the Port of Antwerp. A cutting-edge drone-based system leverages the power of 5G connectivity, edge computing, and artificial intelligence to revolutionise surveillance practices.
This not only facilitates quicker and more adaptable surveillance but also promises cost reductions. Notably, the system boasts the capability to autonomously detect any unauthorised entries at a monitored site. Thanks to network slicing, multiple drones can maintain a high-quality connection throughout their flights. Impressively, test results reveal that the system achieves an application-level latency of 20-50 milliseconds between the edge and the drone. The system has already garnered interest from various sectors in the UK, Netherlands, and Belgium, including ports, power and utilities, construction, and more, signalling its potential for widespread adoption.
Network Efficiency
The Network Efficiency Excellence Award is a testament to the transformative impact of innovative thinking and operational excellence in the realm of connectivity. It praises those who have not only achieved high network performance but have also embraced the motto of sustainability, energy efficiency, and collaboration.
Winning Project: 5G Co-Construction and Sharing
As they roll out 5G, mobile operators are exploring how to reduce network construction and operation costs, while bringing this advanced technology to billions of people. To avoid overlapping network construction by different individual operators, China Telecom and China Unicom have developed the 5G network co-construction and sharing solution. The goals are to reduce construction and operation costs
and energy consumption, effectively improve spectrum utilisation, and enable broader deployment of advanced mobile networks.
Industry Collaborator
The Industry Collaboration recognises the outstanding achievements of individuals and organisations that have demonstrated exceptional collaboration within their industry. This award celebrates those who have gone beyond the boundaries of their own enterprises to foster partnerships, build bridges, and create synergies that drive collective growth and innovation.
