Telecom Lead India: Winners of Aegis Graham Bell Awards 2012 include companies such as Airtel, Idea Cellular, Reliance Communications, Vodafone, Ericsson, Nokia Siemens, Cisco, Comviva, among others.
The winners of the jury awards for TIME (Telecom, Internet, Media and Edutainment categories) was announced on Thursday in New Delhi.
The awards, an initiative of Aegis School of Business, honored the best innovations in the field of TIME.
“PwC has developed a decision matrix to validate the awards on various parameters and further it is evaluated by the prominent jury member based on the presentation given by the participating companies. This process is the most transparent and rigorous in nature,” said Somick Goswami, director, Consulting, PwC.
See the pictures of the jury rounds in Delhi here.
“Recognizing the innovations is the first step towards developing the eco system for innovation in India,” said V P Chandan, chairman of the jury and director of Aegis School of Business and Telecom.
Aegis Graham Bell Awards received over 140 nominations from over 80 companies in two jury rounds.
Award Winners List
| Award Category | Winner |
| Aegis Graham Bell Scholar 2012 for studying Masters in Telecom Management | Abhishek Pandey |
| Innovation in mMoney | Airtel |
| Innovation in Cloud Service | Cisco & Net Monastery& TechMahindra |
| Converged Media Platform | Ealaxy |
| Innovative Managed Services | BigV |
| Innovation in mCommerce | Comviva |
| Innovation in Green Telecom |
Indus & Tejas |
| Innovation in mEntertainment |
Zenga Media |
| Innovation in Test & Measurment Solutions | Kochar & Agilent |
| Mobile Apps for Consumers |
Opera & Comviva |
| Innovation in mAdvertising |
Hoopz |
| Innovative Value Added Services |
CanvasM & Spice |
| Innovation in TV, Broadcast & DTH | Star TV |
| Innovation in Innovation in mHealth | Idea Brahma |
| Innovation in Customer Care | One Click & TCS |
| Innovation in Social Media | ADG |
| Innovation in Telecom Infrastructure | Cisco & Railtel |
| Innovative Vendor Telecom Product | Coral, NSN & Ericsson |
| Innovation in mEducation |
Expert Voicetap |
| Innovative Telecom Business Model |
Idea & Comviva |
| Innovative Advertisement Campaign |
Mahindra Satyam |
| Mobile Apps for Enterprise | Intelenet |
| Mobile Enterprise Product/Solution |
Mobiquest |
| Mobile Technology Breakthrough | Hidden Brains |
| Innovative Bundled Services |
Liqvid |
| Unified Communication | Infosys & Cohesive |
| Network Management Solutions |
Ericsson |
| Best Broadband Data Network | Reliance |
| Best Mobile Phone Service Provider | Airtel |
| Special recognition for innovation in m2m (non Jury recognition for future growth areas) | Amdocs |
Abhijit Gangopadhyay, Dean Aegis School of Business, unveiled the T20 of Indian Telecom, a list of Top 20 stars driving the Indian telecom industry. This list is prepared by Aegis in consultation with knowledge partner PwC and various experts of telecom industry.
| Name | Designation | Company | |
| AK Garg | CMD | MTNL | |
| Akhil Gupta | Deputy Group CEO & MD | Bharti Enterprises | |
| CP Gurnani | Managing Director | Tech Mahindra | |
| Rahul Khullar | Chairman | TRAI | |
| Fredrik Jejdling | Regional Head & President | Ericsson | |
| Himanshu Kapania | MD | Idea | |
| Manoj H Modi | Director | Reliance Infotel | |
| Marten Pieters | CEO & MD | Vodafone | |
| R Chandrashekhar | Secretary, DOT and Chairman Telecom Commission | ||
| RK Bahuguna | MD | RailTel Corporation of India Ltd. | |
| Rajan Mathews | Director General | COAI | |
| Rakesh Kumar Upadhay | Chairman & MD | BSNL | |
| Sam Pitroda | Chairman, National Innovation Council, Adviser to the Prime Minister on Public Information Infrastructure & Innovations Govt. of India | ||
| Sandeep Girotra | Regional Head | Nokia Siemens Networks | |
| Sandip Das | CEO | Director Aircel & CEO Maxis Communications | |
| Sanjay Kapoor | CEO – India & South Asia, Bharti Airtel | Bharti Airtel | |
| Sanjay Nayak | CEO & MD | Tejas Networks | |
| Srinath Narasimhan | Managing Director | Tata Teleservices Ltd. | |
| Sunil Bharti Mittal | Founder, Chairman and Group CEO | Bharti Enterprises | |
| Vimal Wakhlu | CMD | TCIL | |
