DIALOG WINS
GLOBAL AWARD
AT MOBILE WORLD
CONGRESS
Sri Lankan Innovation Triumphs at Oscars of Mobile Industry
between complex network technologies and the endconsumer beat out worldwide competition to secure the top
spot in the category. Other nominees for the award included
Huawei, KT (Korea Telecom), Taiwan Star Telecom and
Ufone Pakistan.
The Dialog Self-Care application framework spans across
Dialog’s multiple service verticals featuring Mobile and
Fixed Telecommunications, High Speed Broadband and
Digital Pay Television, and empowers customers to engage
seamlessly with the company’s exhaustive range of over 200
value added service options.
Group Chief Executive of Dialog Axiata, Dr. Hans
Wijayasuriya, receiving the award from the Chief
Technology Officer of the Global GSM Association Alex
Sinclair, paid tribute to the company’s 10 Million over Sri
Lankan customers, “I would like to thank our many millions
of Customers for inspiring this innovation,” he said, and
followed with attributing the achievement to Dialog teams
from across multiple functional areas, whose combined
expertise and effort delivered a truly unique service
technology platform.
Dialog Axiata Group Chief Executive, Dr. Hans Wijayasuriya
(c ), with the award. Also in the picture are Chief Technology
Officer of the Global GSM Association Alex Sinclair (L), Gareth
Beavis of TechRadar (2L) Suzi Perry – Awards Host, TV
presenter (2R) and Ortis Deley – Awards Host and TV presenter
(R ).
Sri Lanka’s premier connectivity provider, Dialog Axiata
PLC, claimed top honours once again at the Mobile World
Congress held in Barcelona Spain this week, winning the
award for the Best Mobile Network Solution for Serving
Customers. The annual Global Mobile Awards at the Mobile
World Congress are considered the Oscars of the mobile
world, where the global industry converges to showcase the
latest and best in Mobile Technologies and Services.
Dialog has consistently placed Sri Lanka as a leading market
on the world map of Mobile Telecommunications, having
first won a Global Mobile Award in 2001. The company has
bagged a total of 6 Global awards since then, two of which
were secured at last year’s 2015 Mobile World Congress, for
eZ Cash (Best Mobile Money Platform) and Ideamart (Best
Technology Enabler). eZ Cash connects over 15 Million
Mobile Subscribers across Dialog, Etisalat and Hutch
Networks to the very latest in Digital Mobile Transactions,
while IdeaMart, an Application Development Platform
which exposes a wide range of rich network APIs continues
to empower the innovations of over 5,000 Sri Lankan Mobile
Dialog’s award winning innovation came in the form of an
advanced Mobile Network technology innovation featuring
an unique orchestration of Mobile Network Application
Programme Interfaces (APIs) manifesting in the Dialog
Self-Care Application Framework and Dialog Self Care
App. Dialog’s unique approach to simplifying the interface
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