Six Articles From Yesterday at #MWC14 You Must Read

Yesterday from Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the Total Telecom team reported on rumours, health initiatives and.... pasta. Check out the six most read stories on our news service below or click here for the #BreakingNews channel.

Cisco CEO dismissive of Juniper/NSN rumour, predicts vendor 'musical chairs'  

Zuckerberg seeks operator partners to extend affordable Internet access
 
Samsung goes heart rate monitoring mad with Galaxy S5, new wearables
 
Deutsche Telekom on network lasagne and losing the 'mobile' from MWC

Smartphone spec wars are over, it's now about marketing and pricing
 
Sprint boosts indoor coverage at fraction of cost of femtocells

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We anticipate an event-full week

The week might be eventful but it will certainly be event-full. On Tuesday we have our last Breakfast with Total Telecom for 2011, Next Generation Cloud Services, as well as discovering the results of the PPA's 2011 Independent Publisher Awards. On Wednesday the cameras will be out for Film Day, whilst Friday is the deadline for entries for the 2012 World vendor Awards.

Tomorrows breakfast briefing looks like a busy affair with fantastic speakers from COLT, CE On-Demand, NTT Europe, Verizon Business, as well as sponsors HP, and IDC who are moderating. You can meet the speakers on the event website, and there are still a few seats available.

At lunch tomorrow we discover if Total Telecom are the winners as the Professional Publishers Association (PPA) unveils the winners for this years Independent Publisher Awards (#Indpub). We're up for Digital Brand of the Year (which we won in 2010) and also for Media Brand of the Year. If you hear cheering from the direction of Vinopolis, it might well be the Total Telecom team!

Wednesday will see Total TeleVision busy at Film Day, generating more great executive insight for our channel. The next event will be early in 2012, so worth baring in mind if you are looking for pre-MobileWorld Congress expsoure for your executives...

Finally, Friday will see the traditional rush of companies getting their entries in for the 2012 World Vendor Awards (#wva2012). With new categories including areas such as Best Cloud Solution and The Small Cells Award we anticipate fierce competition. Don't miss out, get your entry in.

All in all, it's going to be busy. Who said it quietens down before Christmas?

Countdown for #vendor excellence

The entry deadline for this years World Vendor Awards is the 30 November 2011, so now is the time to start refining your entries.

2012 will be the third annual World Vendor Awards and we're celebrating with some new categories and a new venue, the fabulous Jumeirah Carlton Tower in Knightsbridge.

A thorough review of the categories has seen eight categories appear that are either new or substantially revised, including Best Cloud Solution, Best Mobile Network Product, The Small Cells Award - you can view them all and download the categories brochure here.

The first entries are already in, but if you want inspiration, you may want to watch the videos from last years awards dinner, or read the Winners magazine to see who won.