The winners of the SCF Industry Awards 2023 were announced last night during the Small Cells World Summit in London.
The SCF Industry Awards is the only entirely independent awards event supporting technical innovation in, and the deployment of agile, cost-effective, scalable, cellular infrastructure and solutions by established and emerging service providers.
Winners were recognized from across the eco-system, including mobile network operators, neutral hosts, private network operators, and vendors of hardware, software and chipsets.
A new award for Women in Wireless honored three women, recognizing their contribution to industry innovation and advancement.
The SCF Industry Awards 2023 winners
Excellence in commercial deployment by a service provider
WINNER – Jio Platforms
Jio 5G Small Cells – A complete plan to build an automated solution, integrated seamlessly for easy and swift large-scale commercial deployment
Finalists:
Freshwave and Three UK
Shared Access
Excellence in commercial deployment by a private network operator
WINNER – Vilicom, a BAI Communications company
A private network for the Moray East wind farm
Finalists:
Airspan, with Druid Software, Betacom and Teltech
Boingo Wireless
Outstanding small cell technology in commercial use
WINNER – Freshwave
Small Cells and the City: Freshwave deploys the UK’s first truly shareable 4G and 5G multi-operator network pilot in the City of London
Finalists:
Jio Platforms
Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.
Outstanding software and services technology for small cells, in commercial use
WINNER – ETRI and EUCAST
Flexible 5G Small Cell Software and 5G Small Cell Specific Services
Finalists:
LITEON and the National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
ITRI
Outstanding contribution to emerging technology, architecture and open networks
WINNER – Airspan
Small Cells and the functional split puzzle: Insights from the front lines
Finalists:
Microamp Solutions
Mavenir
Outstanding innovation in chips or components to enable small cell networks
WINNER – Satelles
STL for 5G Small Cell Timing Synchronization
Finalists:
AccelerComm
iCana
Commercial product or service to enable multi-operator and neutral host business models
WINNER – CommScope
CommScope ONECELL Direct
Finalists:
Enersys
Solid
Social Impact – Promoting Small Cells for Social/Economic/Environmental Development
WINNER – ZenFi, a BAI Communications company
Link 5G project in New York
Finalists:
Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.
Women in wireless award
WINNER – Rebecca Gray
Boingo
WINNER – Lianne East
CommScope
WINNER – Vicky Messer
Picocom
Judges choice
WINNER – LITEON and the National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
Secure Communication Scheme
Finalists:
ITRI
Freshwave and Three UK
Outstanding contribution to SCF activities
WINNER – Jussi Kahtava, Spectrum and Standards Engineer, Dense Air
For outstanding contribution to driving SCF’s regulatory agenda
The SCF Industry Awards, formerly the SCF Small Cell Awards, are open to the whole industry (you don’t need to be an SCF member) and they are judged independently by a panel of industry analysts and journalists. This year’s judging panel includes Keith Dyer, editor of The Mobile Network; Sue Rudd, Director of Networks and Service Platforms, Strategy Analytics, Dean Bubley, founder of Disruptive Analysis, Roberto Kompany, Principal Analyst, Service Provider Networks, at Omdia and Mark Keenan, Director of Real Wireless.
Caroline Gabriel, Chair of the judging panel, commented: “It was fantastic to celebrate and recognize the innovation in our industry at the SCF Industry Awards. The winners reflect a diverse and changing eco-system, and an evolving set of deployment models and use cases for small cells.
“The judges were exceptionally impressed with the standard of the entries this year and the entrants’ commitment to delivering outstanding small cell deployments that have real commercial value or social and economic benefits.”
To view the winners visit https://www.smallcellforum.org/awards-2023/