SHORTLIST ANNOUNCED FOR LTE AWARDS 2011

13 April 2011 – The leaders in excellence and innovation in mobile broadband will be recognised next month at the world’s meeting place for LTE – the LTE World Summit.

The winners of the LTE Awards 2011 will be announced at a Gala Dinner Awards Ceremony, taking place in De Duif Amsterdam on the evening of Tuesday 17^th May – the first day of LTE World Summit 2011 event.

The full shortlist is:

Best Contribution to R&D for LTE

Best Contribution to LTE Standards (Individual Only)

 Significant Progress for a Commercial Launch of LTE by an Operator

 Significant Progress for a Commercial Launch of LTE by a Vendor

 Best Network / Device Testing Product for LTE

 Best Enabling Technology

 Best Core Network Product

 Best Chipset / Processor Product

 Best LTE Network Elements

 Best LTE Device / Handset

The LTE Awards 2011 are being judged by a board of high-profile individuals representing an extremely competitive selection of world leading service providers – BT Wholesale, Telefonica, AT&T, France Telecom, Three, E-Plus Mobilfunk, Cosmote and Telecom Italia.

Giles Cummings, Events Director at Informa Telecoms & Media, commented; “Now in its second year, the LTE Awards brings industry leaders together to celebrate innovation and excellence within the LTE industry as part of the LTE World Summit.”

To view the full event programme, including the free-to-attend LTE Masterclass sessions, and register for the conference, visit the LTE World Summit 2011 website at www.lteconference.com or call +44 (0)20 7017 5505. 

Join the event’s LinkedIn discussion group at www.lteconference.com/linkedingroup.  View the YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/lteworldseries.  Follow LTE World Summit on Twitter at http://twitter.com/LTEWorldSeries using hashtag #lteworldseries.

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The LTE Awards 2011 were judged by Tim Hubbard, Head of Data Solutions, BT Wholesale (UK), Jaime Lluch, New Access Networks Technology Manager, Global CTO, Telefonica (Spain), Marc Grant, Lead Principal Technical Architect, AT&T (USA), Remi Thomas, Director of the NGMN Project, France Telecom (France), Erol Hepsaydir, Head of Radio Solutions, Three (UK), Dietmar Kohnenmergen, Master Expert System Architect Network, E-Plus Mobilfunk (Germany), Konstantinos Chalkiotis, Principal Engineer – Head of RAN, Cosmote (Greece), and Roberto Minerva, Head of Innovation Lab, Telecom Italia (Italy).