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Ducont wins a nomination at the “Oscars of the Mobile Industry”: The GSM Association Awards 2003.

Ducont has been short-listed along with three other companies for the Best Wireless Application or Service - Corporate Market Award of the GSM Association Awards 2003. Far EasTone Telecommunications Company (Taiwan), Sonera Corporation (Finland), Telstra Corporation (USA) and O2 (UK) were the prestigious nominees for the 2002 Awards in the same category (Far EasTone won the award). Ericsson (Sweden), NTT DoCoMo (Japan), Orange (France) and Network 365 (Ireland) are just some of the other celebrated winners of the GSM Awards of 2002. The 2003 winner will be announced at the GSM Awards, which is in its eighth year running. These Awards are the leading international wireless industry honour for achievement in technology and creativity.

The GSM Association Awards 2003 are open to Network Operators, Application Developers, Content Providers and all Manufacturers and suppliers of products and services supporting the GSM family of wireless platforms: GSM, GPRS, EDGE and W-CDMA (3GSM).

Selected by an independent panel of judges, the awards honour winners across some 11 categories: Best Wireless Infrastructure or Network Solution; Best Wireless Handset/Terminal; Best Corporate Wireless Application or Service; Best Consumer Application or Service; Best Application Developer; Best Marketing Campaign; Best Television Commercial; Best Use of Wireless for Emergency Services/Wireless Access; Mobile Communications International’s Readers’ Award; The GSM Association’s Chairman’s Award and the GSMA Roll of Honour.

The GSM Association’s Awards will be presented for the eighth year in succession during the global wireless industry’s leading annual event - the 3GSM World Congress in Cannes, France in February 2003.