GTI Awards 2024
Report in Collaboration with the GSMA Highlights Best Practice from National 5G Plans
Guidelines for GTI Awards 2024
These guidelines are to state the purpose and details of the awards, the process of application, and an approximate timeline for the award cycle. It is very important that you read through the guidelines carefully to ensure an eligible application.
Purpose
The GTI Awards aims to acknowledge achievements and success of industry players in 5G development across a wide range of market segments.
In the year of 2023, GTI shifted its focus to 5G Technology and Product, 5G Enterprise Network Solutions (5G ENS) and 5G Innovative Applications & Monetization. Therefore, GTI Awards 2024 intends to recognize outstanding contributions in these areas and encourage the development of innovative technologies, products, solutions and applications that address key challenges faced by GTI operators, and honorable contribution to the industry and the GTI.
Categories, Eligibility and Criteria
GTI Awards 2024 has Five categories: Innovative Breakthrough in Mobile Technology Award, Innovative Mobile Service and Application Award, Market Development Award, Best 5G Applications & Monetization Award, and Honorary Award.
Category 1: Innovative Breakthrough in Mobile Technology Award
- Innovative Breakthrough in 5G Technology and Product Award: This award is for operators and vendors providing innovative technology breakthroughs in network infrastructure, devices, chipsets, modules, and test systems supporting 5G commercialization and 5G-A evolution. To be eligible for this award, technologies/products must have been commercially launched, or will be launched or unveiled specifically before or at the GTI Summit on 27th February, 2024 in Barcelona, Spain.
- Innovative Breakthrough in Enterprise Network Technology Award: This award is for operators and vendors providing 5G/5G-A/IoT technology breakthroughs and innovations for verticals. To be eligible for this award, technologies must have been released in white papers or speeches at 5G ENS before the GTI Summit on 27th February, 2024 in Barcelona, Spain.
Innovative Breakthrough in Mobile Technology Award entries are judged on aspects including the extent of meeting GTI operators' needs, innovativeness, advantages, market potential, sustainability, impacts on and leverage of technology.
Category 2: Innovative Mobile Service and Application Award
- Innovative 5G Service and Application Award: This award is for operators and vendors providing innovative mobile services, applications and solutions enabled by 5G commercialization and 5G-A evolution technologies for consumers and verticals. To be eligible for this award, services and applications must have been implemented in trial or commercially launched before or at the GTI Summit on 27th February, 2024 in Barcelona, Spain.
- Innovative 5G ENS Service and Application Award: This award is for operators and vendors providing 5G/5G-A/IoT innovative products, solutions and applications for verticals. To be eligible for this award, products, solutions and applications must have been implemented in trial or launched at 5G ENS before the GTI Summit on 27th February, 2024 in Barcelona, Spain.
Innovative Mobile Service and Application Award entries are judged on aspects including innovativeness, advantages and its sustainability and potentiality.
Category 3: Market Development Award
- 5G Technology and Product Market Development Award: This award is for operators and vendors that make outstanding contributions to 5G commercialization and 5G-A evolution. Only GTI operators and GTI Partner Forum members are eligible for this award. Deadline for approved membership status is set to 31st December, 2023.
- 5G ENS Market Development Award: This award is for operators and vendors that make outstanding contributions to 5G ENS use cases which bring market values and corporate benefits in verticals. To be eligible for this award, use cases must be the first release or have large-scale applications at 5G ENS before the GTI Summit on 27th February, 2024 in Barcelona, Spain.
Market Development Award entries are judged on aspects including, contribution to the establishment of 5G/5G ENS ecosystem, promotion of 5G/5G ENS adoption, leverage of trial or commercial network.
Category 4: Best 5G Applications & Monetization Award
This award is for operators and vendors providing best practices and business models in 5G applications and monetization. To be eligible for this award, practices and business models must have been commercially launched.
Best 5G Applications & Monetization Award entries are judged on aspects including advantages, business models, monetization models, and its impacts to economy and value creation.
Category 5: Honorary Award
- 5G Technology and Product Honorary Award: This award is for the individuals, groups and companies whose technical or marketing efforts have brought significant credit to 5G commercialization and 5G-A evolution, such as giving presentations, participating/supporting GTI work. Only GTI operators and GTI Partner Forum members are eligible for this award. Deadline for approved membership status is set to 31st December, 2023.
- 5G ENS Honorary Award: This award is for the individuals, groups and companies whose technical or marketing efforts have brought significant credit to 5G ENS, such as giving presentations, leading/participating in the tasks, etc. Only GTI operators and GTI Partner Forum members are eligible for this award. Deadline for approved membership status is set to 31st December, 2023.
Honorary Award entries acknowledge the company, group or individual who has made significant contribution and held a major leadership role in 5G commercialization and 5G ENS, marketing promotion and the GTI work in 2023 either regionally or globally.
Process of Application and Timelines
GTI Awards has an open application process:
1. GTI Secretariat announces the GTI Awards 2024 open for application.
2. Applicants complete the application form, and return it to the GTI Secretariat (admin@gtigroup.org) before the deadline: 15th December, 2023. Other supporting materials may also be attached with the application form.
3. GTI Secretariat assesses the applications based on the criteria and makes a recommendation report to GTI Steering Committee for approval.
4. GTI Awards will be presented in February 2024.
For detailed description of the criteria, please click here to download the GTI Awards 2024 Application Form for Category 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and submit it to GTI Secretariat admin@gtigroup.org.
Click here to review GTI Awards 2023.
