Congratulations to the Global Mobile Award Winners 2012!

The 17th Annual Global Mobile Awards have been unveiled by the GSMA…

In the special ceremony at the GSMA’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on Tuesday 28th February, host - comedian and songwriter - Tim Minchin revealed the winners at the industry’s biggest annual event.

Click here for the full list of winners of the 2012 Global Mobile Awards

GSMA Director General, Anne Bouverot introduced the awards, which received a record 600 entries this year, thanking all entrants and more than 170 independent analysts, journalists, academics and subject matter experts from throughout the world that participated in the judging of the 2012 awards.

Cherie Blair, champion of the GSMA’s mWomen programme joined Tim Minchin on stage to co-present four awards within the ‘Social and Economic Development’ category.

The GSMA is grateful to all of our sponsors of the 2012 Awards, including INQ (Platinum Awards Sponsor);Conduit (Apps of the Year Category) and to our Media Partners - CNBC, Fortune and Time (Platinum Media Partners); and Africa Telecoms, Fierce Wireless, GIZMODO, GoMo News , Mobile Communications International and Tech Week Europe (Gold Media Partners) as well as App market data partner, Distimo.

We look forward to seeing you in 2013!

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