{"id":411868,"date":"2011-05-01T08:37:53","date_gmt":"2011-05-01T08:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/01\/mtn-airtel-vodafone-win-laurels-at-maiden-telecom-awards\/"},"modified":"2011-05-01T08:37:53","modified_gmt":"2011-05-01T08:37:53","slug":"mtn-airtel-vodafone-win-laurels-at-maiden-telecom-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/01\/mtn-airtel-vodafone-win-laurels-at-maiden-telecom-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"MTN, Airtel & Vodafone Win Laurels At Maiden Telecom Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"

MTN and Airtel emerged top winners of the first ever telecom industry awards, dubbed \u201cMobile World Ghana Telecom Awards\u201d which was successfully organized in Accra.<\/p>\n

Vodafone was closely on the heels of the two with two
awards including the Telecom Brand of the Year, which the Head of
Corporate Communications at Vodafone Ghana Carmen Bruce-Annan thinks
was the most prestigious award.
The event was organized by Mobile World Magazine, a
London-based publication.<\/p>\n

It was a small event in terms of the size of the attendance
but big in terms of the quality of representation from all the telecom
operators, mobile phone companies, vendors, telecom infrastructure
companies, mobile content designers and providers, regulators, policy
makers, industry financiers, civil society, software companies and
multilateral organizations.<\/p>\n

Group Publisher and CEO of Mobileworld Magazine, Akin
Naphtal told journalists they were happy to have been able to pull off
the first awards programme with all the players represented, adding
that \u201cthis is just the first one and we trust that the subsequent ones
will even be bigger.\u201d
There were 14 competitive awards and two honorary awards in all.<\/p>\n

Market leader MTN Ghana emerged as the Telecom Operator of
the Year, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Company of the Year
and the Mobile Money Service of the Year.
Airtel also took three awards, comprising the Marketing
Campaign of the Year, for their rebranding from Zain to Airtel,
Customer Care Company of the Year, and the Chief Executive Officer of
the Year, Mr. Philip Sowah.
Vodafone Emerged Telecom Brand of the Year and Wholesale
Company of the year.<\/p>\n

Mobile Phone Company of the Year was Samsung, Vendor of
the Year was Ericsson, Telecom Infrastructure Company of the Year was
Helios Towers, and Best Telecom Financing Bank was Stanchart.
Mobile Content Ghana emerged the Mobile Content Company
of the Year and Essoko won the Innovative Mobile Project of the Year.<\/p>\n

Minister of Communications Haruna Iddrisu was presented
with the Mobile World Life Time Achiever Award, whiles Mrs. Dorothy
Gordon of the Kofi Annan ICT Centre of Excellence was also presented
with the Special Recognition for Service to Telecom Industry Award.
Acting Corporate Services Executive of MTN, Georgina
Asare-Fiagbenu told journalists MTN was excited about emerging the
operator of the year but they are particularly excited about the CSR
award because it was testimony to MTN\u2019s passion about giving back to
the community.<\/p>\n

MTN Foundation\u2019s CSR projects have won several laurels
over the past two year.
\u201cWe would have wished for more awards but to be
recognized as the obvious best operator and CSR company shows we are
doing something right \u2013 this will spur us on to continue to deliver
quality service and also to give more to the community,\u201d Mrs.
Asare-Fiagbenu said.<\/p>\n

Airtel Ghana Boss Philip Sowah, who emerged CEO of the
Year, attributed his award to team work at Airtel, but was quick to
say the award puts responsibility on him and his team to deliver
better services and value propositions to customers.
\u201cAt Airtel, we love to win not just awards but on all
fronts \u2013 including value for customers, quality of service, giving
back to our community and all other area \u2013 and we are passionate about
seeing the entire industry do well in Ghana,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

On the issue of conflicting brand colours between
Airtel and Vodafone, he said, the brand value went beyond colours and
he was confident that the Airtel brand stood out and would continue to
stand out on the back of its value propositions.
Head of Corporate Communication Vodafone Ghana, Carmen
Bruce Annan said winning the Telecom Brand of the year was most
fulfilling because brand was everything.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor every company your brand is the most valuable
asset you have so emerging as the Telecom Brand of the Year for us is
most prestigious and fulfilling,\u201d she said.
She said Vodafone Ghana was not surprised with emerging
the brand of the year because the Vodafone Group is currently the 5th
Best Brand in the world.
\u201cIt only shows we are doing something right and we will
continue to do more to deliver the best value to our customer, which
has been our promise from day one,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Carmen Bruce-Annan said Vodafone did not feel
threatened by the influx of the various fibre optic cables such as
Main One, Glo One and very soon WACS into the country because Vodafone
was well positioned to deliver value on both telephony and broadband.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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