Ducont nominated Finalist in two categories at the GSM Association Awards 2004

Best Mobile Application or Service – Consumer Market
Compelling and exciting consumer applications for voice and data, from information to entertainment are the future of mobile. This award is all about driving usage and contributing to industry growth.

Nominees for this category are:
DUCONT FZ-LLC for School Connect in the United Arab Emirates, bridging the communications gap between schools, students and parents, to reduce administrative pressure and enhance interaction

mobilkom austria AG & Co KG for m-parking, enabling motorists to pay for parking using their mobile phones

Shazam Entertainment for the Shazam music identification service, a service that allows subscribers to call a shortcode number from a mobile and identify any music track using their handset

SMART Communications, Inc for SMART Load, a world-first service for selling prepaid airtime via SMS

Mobile in the Community – Best Use of Mobile for Accessibility – Sponsored by Vodafone

This award continues to capture the industry’s imagination, and highlights specific initiatives that create access to communications for those otherwise denied through location, geography, product complexity, cost or other barriers.

Nominees in this category are:

Brand Communications for the Brand ‘Apollo’ mobile data solution for remote and mobile libraries

DUCONT FZ-LLC for the mDUBAI initiative in the United Arab Emirates to progess e-government through wireless communications

02 and ‘Milly’s Fund’ for the Teach UR Mum 2 TXT personal safety campaign in the UK, teaching parents to text message their children to stay in touch

PSITEK (Pty) Ltd for the Adondo Community Phone in South Africa, a “Business in a Box” that allows supervised public payphone access to the community

 

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