The shortlist for the 2014 Telecoms.com Awards has been revealed with vendors, operators and consultancies from the world over submitting telecoms industry innovations. From an impressive array of entries, 68 make up the final shortlist across 16 categories covering the key segments of today’s telecoms market.

Categories cover 2014’s major talking points and emerging technologies, ranging from innovations in cloud computing to CEM, handset innovation, urban improvements, and wifi.

This year’s awards also sees the introduction of two new categories recognising outstanding contributions by ancillary services to telecoms and network management excellence. The latter pertains to best use of network management services that facilitate more efficient control over network infrastructure, including network security, virtualization initiatives (such as SDN & NFV) and analytics platforms.

The full shortlist is as follows:

Ancillary Services to Telecoms

Best Cloud Innovation

Best Mobile Payment Solution

Best Use of Wifi

CEM

Connecting the Unconnected

Fixed Network Innovation

Green Technology

Handset Innovation

Mobile Pricing Innovation

Most Innovative MVNO

Network Management Excellence

OTT Service Launch

Progress in M2M/IoT

Pushing the Mobile Limits

Urban Improvements

Many thanks to everyone who entered, and congratulations to those who have made this year’s shortlist. The awards, hosted by comedienne Lucy Porter, will be taking place on the 4th December at 200 Aldersgate in St. Paul’s, London.