India’s leading GSM mobile service operators Aircel and Idea cellular has been short listed for the Global Mobile Awards-2010, which will be held on 16th February 2010 at the GSM Association’s (GSMA) Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

Aircel,the 5th largest GSM operator in tesrm of subscriber base, has been nominated in two categories, its Unlimited DialerTunes has been short listed for Best Mobile Music Service while its most popular Aircel Pocket Internet (PI Rs.14 and Rs.98) for Best Mobile Internet Service.

Another GSM operator, Idea Cellular, has been nominated for its Insta Alert service under Best Billing and Customer Care Solution category. Insta Alert is a tool to convey offers to users who are inactive on the network.

The leading VAS provider Suvidha Starnet Private Limited has been short listed for its Beam – Simple Money Service/ Bill payment service under the Best Mobile Money for the Non-banking Service. The Beam is a micro payment service through which a person can make money transfers to his account using pre-paid coupons against a mobile number.

The GSMA’S Mobile World Congress is the combination of an exhibition for the GSM mobile industry and a conference featuring chief executives representing mobile operators, vendors and content owners from across the world. Spanning 219 countries, the GSMA consists of nearly 800 of the world’s mobile operators, as well as more than 200 companies from handset makers, software companies, equipment providers, Internet companies, and media and entertainment organizations.

The Global Mobile Awards by GSM Association’s (GSMA) are judged by more than 100 independent journalists, Industry experts, analysts, academics and subject experts.

Here is the Full List of Nominees for global mobile awards
Announcing the Nominees

Category 1 - Mobile Entertainment
1a - Best Mobile Game
Entetrainer Speedhero
EA Mobile The Sims 3 for iPhone and iPod
Iricom The Last City
HeroCraft Farm Frenzy

Automatically shortlisted as Asia Mobile Award Winner:
Gameloft Hero of Sparta

1b - Best Mobile Music Service
QuickPlay Media SIRIUS XM Radio for Apple iPhone and iPod Touch Devices
Aircel Limited Aircel Unlimited DialerTunes
CSL Limited Musicholic
Odyssey Music Group Deezer
Shazam Entertainment Ltd Shazam Encore

Automatically shortlisted as Asia Mobile Award Winner:
Singapore Telecom Mobile SingTel AMPed'

1c - Best Mobile TV or Video Service
Orange France Orange Mobile TV high defintion (HD) content via Orange mobile portal or the Orange Mobile TV Player
Mobiclip, Inc. FRANCE 24 LIVE
Dori Media Group to Cellcom and Dori New Media MEGUDALIM (uMan)- the first reality control game
CBS Mobile TV.COM
MobiTV Inc. MobiTV

Automatically shortlisted as Asia Mobile Award Winner:
Telegent Systems Telegent Free-to-Air Mobile TV – TLG1120 Mobile TV Receiver

Category 2 - Mobile Advertising and Marketing

2a – Best Mobile Advertising or Marketing
2ergo Ltd Rightmove.co.uk’s iPhone App
adidas adidas Urban Art Guide
Fox Mobile Group Brainstorm
Cherrypicks Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC) 360° Mobile Marketing Campaign
CLANMO GmbH Ikea PS Einrichtungskamera (The IKEA PS Interior-Design-Planner)

Automatically shortlisted as Asia Mobile Award Winner
Smart Communications and Unilever AXE for 'AXE on Phone'

2b – Best Mobile Location Based Advertising Campaign
Rabarba Digital Agency / Turkcell Lipton / The Woman Who Knows Everything
R/GA Nokia viNe
Alcatel Lucent & 1020 Placecast SONICSignals
T-Mobile Slovensko, MUW Saatchi&Saatchi and Mediaedge:cia Slovak Republic. MESSAGES

Category 3 - Best Mobile Services

3a - Best Mobile Enterprise Product or Service
Cisco Systems Cisco WebEx Meeting Center for the iPhone, Version 1.3
conTgo The Mobile Travel Assistant
Research In Motion BlackBerry Enterprise Server v5.0
iPass iPass Mobile Office
Vodafone Global Enterprise Limited Vodafone Telecoms Management
LogMeIn, Inc. LogMeIn Rescue

Automatically shortlisted as Asia Mobile Award Winner:
Orascom Telecom Bangladesh 'Banglalink Jigyasha'

3b - Best Mobile Internet Service
Aircel Limited Aircel Pocket Internet (PI for short)
Microsoft Microsoft My Phone
VODAFONE Ltd Vodafone Mobile Broadband Always Best Connected
Opera Software ASA Opera Mini
adaffix Gmbh YELLIX
Openwave Systems, Inc Openwave Passport

Automatically shortlisted as Asia Mobile Award Winner:
Geodesic Mundu IM

3c - Best Mobile Money Service
SK Telecom T cash, Korea's most pervasive mobile payment system
Monitise International Limited Monitise Mobile Money Manager
Smart Communications Smart Money's expanded mobile-based security feature for online purchases
Safaricom Limited M-PESA (bulk payment & utility bill) extension to service
Fundamo MCB Mobile Payments Made Easy

Category 4 - Best Use of Mobile for Social and Economic Development

4a – Best Use of Mobile for Social & Economic Development
Comviva Technologies Limited Virtual SIM
Mocambique Celular S.A.R.L (mcel) Mcel estou ligado (Mcel I am connected)
Grameen Foundation The Grameen Foundation Application Laboratory (AppLab)
Myriad Group World's largest real-time health survey via Mobile Phones - Tracking H1N1 Flu Epidemic in Mexico
MTN Syria (JSC) Electronic Voucher Food Distribution Project
Ossian Agro Automation Nano Ganesh A Mobile based remote control system for agricultural water pumps.
Grameen Foundation Health Tips, a service which enables freeform SMS text queries on reproductive health issues
4b – Best ‘Mobile Money for the Unbanked’ Service
VODAFONE Ltd Vodafone Money Transfer (but locally known as M-PESA, M-Paisa or VMT)
Zain Bahrain B.S.C Zap
BEAM - Suvidha Starnet (P) Limited BEAM - Simple Money Service
Telecom Development Company Afghanistan Ltd. Roshan - M-Paisa, a secure, transparent and timely delivery of salaries
Comviva Technologies Limited mobiquity Mobile Money

Automatically shortlisted as Asia Mobile Award Winner:
Smart Communications Islands Activation Program (IAP)

Category 5 - Green Mobile Award

5b - Green Mobile Award for Best Green Programme, Product or Initiative
Winafrique Technologies Ltd Remote Area Power Solutions (RAPS) for Telecommunication Sites;
Huawei Technologies Co Ltd The Green Roof of the World. Solar energy and wind power are now used to power base station sites in several regions of Tibet (known as The Roof of the World)
Grameenphone and Huawei Building a Greener Mobile Network
Grameenphone Ltd Climate Change Program to reduce its carbon footprint
VNL WorldGSM (a GSM base station which is 100% solar-powered for deployment in remote rural areas in emerging markets which are off-grid).

5c - Green Network Award
Axiata (Bangladesh) Limited. Power Savings Initiatives
Safaricom Limited Safaricom Green Power Strategy and Experience;
Middle East Engineering & Telecommunications SAE The use of Photovoltaic solar Systems in Powering Remote GSM sites in Egypt.
Orange France Solar base station programme enhancing mobile networks in rural areas.
Mocambique Celular S.A.R.L (mcel) Eco Naturalmente (Naturally Thinking Green)

Category 6 - Best Technology

6a - Best Network Technology Advance
VNL VNL’s WorldGSM, zero-opex solar-powered GSM base station for commercial networks in rural areas
Ubidyne Antenna Embedded Radio (TM)
SkyCross Inc. SkyCross iMAT (isolated mode antenna technology) Antennas
Velocent Systems OneVu
Vodafone Espana SAU Unlimited Mobile Broadband with QoS traffic Management
SK Telecom Micro RRH, an Innovative Noise-cancellation Technology
Spirent Communications Spirent Landslidefi Mobile Packet Core (MPC) Performance Test System

6b - Best Service Delivery Platform
Aepona Aepona Universal Service Platform (USP) with integrated Payments and Settlement Engine (PSE)
Funambol, Inc. Funambol open source mobile cloud platform syncs billions of phones with social nets, email and PCs
Qualcomm Incorporated: Plaza Retail™ – The complete application retail solution Plaza Retail an end-to-end, open application store solution
SEVEN Networks SEVEN Ping: push technology that gives users real-time access any service on favorite device
Huawei Technologies Co Ltd Huawei SDP solution: enabling operators to build a Digital Shopping Mall to deliver a converged user experience.

6c - Best Billing and Customer Care Solution
SK Telecom T Video Call Center, a customer care solution offering visual assistance with voice response system.
Nokia Siemens Networks GmbH & Co. KG NSN Customer Care Automation automatically diagnoses faults affecting customers calling care
Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) Personalized tariff plan and service options configurator
DeviceAnywhere DemoAnywhere, a web-based application, enables customers/support staff to experience and interact with customers
Telcordia Technologies, Inc Telcordia Real-Time Charging is a flexible charging and policy control solution
IDEA Cellular Limited INSTA ALERT is an innovative tool to convey offers to users who latch after a period of inactivity
6d - Best Mobile Technology Breakthrough
Qualcomm Incorporated Snapdragon, Qualcomms' leading system-on-a-chip,
Opera Software ASA Opera Mini - WEB browser
SkyCross, Inc. SkyCross iMAT (isolated mode antenna technology) Antennas
Orange France Mobile High Definition (HD) Voice: the world’s first mobile service offering high-definition sound
Novatel Wireless, Inc. MiFi Intelligent Mobile Hotspot
Alcatel Lucent LTE small cells in-building solution
Icera Inc Icera's IceClear ™ Type 3i interference cancellation technology

Category 8 - Best Mobile Handset or Device

8a - Best Mobile Handset or Device
Research in Motion Blackberry Bold 9700 Smartphone
Samsung Electronics Samsung Star (S5230) (Toco Lite in the UK)
HTC HTC Hero
Huawei Technologies Huawei U8220 (T-Mobile Pulse)
Samsung Electronics Samsung I8910 HD or OMNIA HD (GT-I8910)

Automatically shortlisted as Asia Mobile Award Winner:
Nokia N97 Mini

8b – Best Mobile Connected Device (non-handsets)
Powermat Powermat Home & Office and Powermat Portable are a revolutionary new wireless charging systems
Novatel Wireless, Inc. Novatel Wireless MiFi Intelligent Mobile Hotspot
Huawei Technologies Co Ltd Huawei Wireless Modem E5- the smallest wireless modem in the world.
Sagem Orga NFC active Sticker in partnership with Twinlinx
Huawei Technologies Co Ltd Huawei Home Media Centre.