Who's your Asian CEO of the Year?

Votes are coming in thick and fast, but it's not yet a foregone conclusion as to who will be named CEO of the Year at this year's Asia Communication Awards.

Make sure you get your vote in before the 25 May 2013 to have your say.

VOTE NOW

The winner will be named on the 20 June 2013 at the dinner in Singapore. At the same time finalists in this years awards will find out if they have been success. Check out if you made the shortlist at
www.asiacommsawards.com

Who has the best vendor #brand in #telecoms?

In the February issue of Total Telecom+ we worked with Brand Finance to reveal the most valuable brands in telecoms. Predominantly we were focusing on the telecom operators (the full Telecom 500 is coming soon) but amongst the extra data included was the Top 5 hardware vendor brands.

This research is pretty clear cut, these are the most valuable brands, but are they the best? To get this answer, we need to include other more qualitative factors, reflecting how the industry thinks and feels about brands, and this is the role of Best Brand category at the World Vendor Awards #WVA2012, where the winner is determined by the votes of the industry.

In 2011 Ericsson were triumphant at the awards, beating off stiff competition from the likes of Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco, Juniper Networks (winner of the Best Brand Campaign category in 2010), and ZTE, and reflecting that you don't need to have the most valuable brand to be the industries Best Brand.

Since then, Ericsson have climbed the rankings from number three to number two most valuable brand, so will this help them win again in 2012, or will the competition be too fierce for them? Only you can determine this, by casting your vote for the Best Brand category for the 2012 World Vendor Awards.

This year 20 great telecom hardware vendor brands are currently in the running, so vote today to help determine who will be on the final shortlist, to be published at the end of April. Those in the running are:

• Alcatel-Lucent
• Amdocs
• Ciena
• Cisco
• Corning
• Ericsson
• Harris
• HP
• Huawei
• Juniper Networks
• Motorola
• NEC
• NetCracker
• Nokia Siemens Networks
• Openwave
• Qualcomm
• Syniverse
• Telcordia
• Tellabs
• ZTE

The Best Brand survey is hosted on Survey Monkey, and you can vote by following this link, or you can go to the homepage of the World Vendor Awards www.worldvendorawards.com and vote there. 

Does your CEO have the X-Factor?

The vendor CEO with the #xfactor will be recognised at the 2012 World Vendor Awards.

Last years winner was Vishwanath Alluri of IMImobile whose company also won Best Outsourcing Initiative.

Vishwanath commented: “I feel this is a reflection of the innovative and compelling work we do at IMImobile that delivers consumer engagement and increased revenues for our customers. Winning these two highly regarded World Vendor Awards is evidence of our continued excellence within the mobile industry.”

CEO of the Year is important because it is determined by the industry. In a two stage evaluation process we ask the industry to nominate candidates who are then put to an industry vote. To ensure fair play we use an evaluation system where voters have to tell us theior top three choices.

Of course if your CEO isn't nominated, they can't win, so make sure you submit your nomination today!

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/WVA_CEO_2012

Person of the Decade

The votes are flooding in the telecoms Person of the Decade to be presented at this years World Communication Awards.

It's Sarin vs Gates vs Jobs and more - you can see the shortlist and vote on the Total Telecom microsite

Also flooding in are the alternative suggestions, and why is so and so included - well they probably were, but didn't make the top 10 of suggestions recieved...

Make sure your favourite wins - Vote NOW!