Final Shortlists Published: CEO, Best Place to Work, and User's Choice #WCA2013

The finalists for the eagerly awaited voted and research based categories for this year's World Communication Awards have been released, with some outstanding names on the shortlist.

They are, in alphabetical order:

THE USER’S CHOICE AWARD
(Based on a study of real enterprise customers by Ocean82 and Total Telecom)

• NTT Communications
• Orange
• Singtel
• T-systems

BEST PLACE TO WORK
(Based on a survey of company employees)

• AT&T
• Globe telecom
• Idea Cellular
• Orange Business Services
• Smart Communications
• TeliaSonera International Carrier

CEO of the YEAR
(Based on industry voting)

• Ahmed Mekky - Gulf Bridge International
• Hannes Ametsreiter - Telekom Austria
• Lowell C. McAdam - Verizon
• Napoleon L. Nazareno - Smart Communications, Inc.
• Olaf Swantee - EE
• Randall L. Stephenson - AT&T

The winners will be revealed at the prestigious gala dinner in London on the 3 December 2013. Book your seat today at www.worldcommsawards.com

10 Telecom Operators That Enterprises Love #WCA12

The finalists have just been announced for the User's Choice award for the 2012 World Communication Awards.

The ten companies on this list have achieved the highest customer satisfaction index (CSI) from an assessment of the responses to surveys conducted by Total Telecom and Ocean82. The survey collects views from enterprise users about their levels of satisfaction with the product, value for money and the levels of customer support they received from their provider in the last twelve months. It has been designed to assess the effectiveness of organisations at winning the hearts and minds of their users.

The ten finalists this year are (in alphabetical order):

• AT&T
• BT
• Etisalat
• NTT  Communications
• Orange Business Services
• Singtel
• Tata Communications
• Telefonica
• T-Systems
• Verizon Business

Congratulations to all the finalists. The winner will be revealed at the World Communication Awards on the 13 November 2012. For more details visit the website.

Thankfully I was sitting down...

I am amazed, astounded, lost for words or at least pleasantly surprised.

Last year we achieved an outstanding 10,808 votes for our CEO of the Year poll for the World Communication Awards, so I was amazed when I looked at the voting to date and found that we are already at 18,359 individuals having voted. And since this year we are asking each individual to cast 3 votes, that's over 55,000 in total and voting doesn't close until the 8 October - so vote now!

It's also not all one way traffic, there's quite a few names in the frame, and the lead has changed several times, so make sure your prefered CEO doesn't miss out!

Also on user voted categories, we're getting a steady stream of votes for the Users Choice - if you are an end users, please do cast your vote...

This years World Communication Awards is shaping up to be a great event, so don't miss out, book your seat today!