Discover the 20 candidates for #WCA14 CEO of the Year and vote for your favourite

The candidates for this years World Communication Awards CEO of the Year are in, and represent a eclectic list of 20 of the most powerful, innovative and outspoken names in global telecoms. Now it's time to decide the winner and that's down to you, but first here's the list and some of those reasons why they all have the X-factor.

• Abdullah Orkun Kaya: TTNET
• Ahmed Mekky: GBI
• Akira Arima: NTT Communications

Akira has already been recognised as a winner this year, being named CEO of Year for the Asia Communication Awards in June, just one of several awards taken by NTT Com - see the roll of honour here 

• Alex J. SInaga: PT Telkomsel

Interviewed at last years Total Telecom Festival

• Chris Wood: WIOCC
• Daniel Hajj Aboumrad: America Movil 
  

Daniel is leading the South American companies battle with the regulators, whilst also battling for control of Telekom Austria

• Ernest L. Cu: Globe Telecom
• Gavin Patterson: BT

Leading BT to reenter the mobile space

• John Legere: T-Mobile US 
  

Sharing his forthright views, especially on the competition!

• Masayoshi Son: Softbank
• Michalis Tsamaz: Hellenic Telecommunications Organization (OTE)
• Napoleon L. Nazareno: Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company
• Nasser Marafih: Ooredoo
• Paul Taylor: Botswana Telecommunications Corporation

Read the interview about transforming the country’s telecom incumbent into a customer centric, world class operator

• Randall Stephenson: AT&T Inc.

Boosting TV and video business

• Saleh Al Abdooli: Etisalat 
  
• Vinod Kumar: Tata Communications Ltd
• Vittorio Colao: Vodafone 

Encouraged by signs of stability in Europe

• Yiannos Michaelides: GO plc, Malta
• Yousuf Abdulla Al-Kubaisi: Ooredoo

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Countdown WCA 2010

The entries have started to come in for the 2010 World Communication Awards - but there's still time for you to be involved...
Deadline for entries is this Friday, 2nd July 2010.


Submit your entries online in one of 15 categories that you can enter, including:

• Best Brand
• Best Content Service
• Best Customer Care
• Best Managed Service
• Best Mobile Operator
• Best New Service
• Best Operator in a Devloping Market
• Best Project Management
• The Alireza Mahmoodshahi Technology Foresight Award
• Best Mobile Device Strategy
• Best Wholesale Carrier
• Best Global Operator
• Best Regional Operator
• The Green Award
• Team of the Year
  

You can view the winners from previous years and get a feeling for what makes them winners by visiting the Roll of Honour of winners since 1999 or check out the Judges advice on writing a winning entry.

Remember if you don't enter, you can't win! Don't miss out Friday is the deadline...

Watch the introduction to the 2009 awards:

WCA Animation

At last weeks World Communication Awards, Orange joined Total Telecom in celebrating a Decade of Excellence by creating a short film of telecom landmarks.


The film was played out during the gala evening, but if you weren't able to attend, or want to see it again, it's now available on Total Telecom

The tenth World Communication Awards saw major players including BT, Orange, Belgacom, O2, and Bharti Airtel celebrating their success, as well as a strong showing from companies such as Safaricom, Etisalat, and Turkcell. A full list of the winners and highly commended companies is available online.

Orange named Best Global Operator

What a great night last night turned out to be. More than 500 of the telecom industries elite gathered at the Hilton on Park Lane, London to see this years winners of the World Communication Awards unveiled.

Guest speakers included Pen Hadow, the arctic environmentalist and explorer, and Krishnan Guru Murthy proved to be an excellent MC and demonstrated why he has appeared as a guest on comedy quiz shows including 'Have I got news for you' (quote of the night, KGM "I love an awards ceremony where I can call Bill Gates and Steve Jobs losers")



After all the glitz, Orange and Bharti Airtel came out as the big winners with two trophies each.
The full list was as follows:
Best Brand: Bharti Airtel Ltd.
Best Content Service: MINICK Group
Best Customer Care: BT Group
Best Managed Service: NTT Communications
Best Mobile Operator : Bharti Airtel Ltd.
Best New Service : SpinVox
Best Operator in a Developing Market: Afsat Communications
Best Project Management: Orange Business Services
Best Technology Foresight : ip.access
The Convergence Award: BT 21CN
Best Changemaker: Vishvas Sethi - Botswana Telecommunications Corporation
Best Wholesale Carrier: TeliaSonera International Carrier
Best Global Operator : Orange Business Services
Most influential person: Viviane Reding, EU Commissioner, EU

Once again the WCA proved to be a night to really unite the big hitters with a range of senior telco execs including Osamu Inoue of NTT, Barbara Dalibard of Orange, Malin Frenning of TeliaSonera, Ofer Gneezy of iBasis, and Daniel Kurgan of Belgacom to name just five of those present.

2008 is the 10th year of the WCA, so watch this space to keep up with the plans...