2009 ACOMM Awards Winners Announced
2009 ACOMM AWARDS WINNERS ANNOUNCED
Category Awards to Dialogue Communications/Singtel Optus, iiNet, Internode, Leopard Labs, Telstra Enterprise & Government and Truman Hoyle
Hugh Bradlow and Bevan Slattery tie for 2009 Telecommunications Ambassador
Sydney, 6 August 2009 – The winners of the prestigious 2009 Communications Alliance & CommsDay Awards were announced tonight at the Annual ACOMM Awards Dinner.
Communications Alliance CEO Anne Hurley said the high calibre of entries reflected the increasing maturity of the industry.
“Digital confidence has been a key theme for 2009 and the communications industry has a significant role to play in building digital skills and encouraging greater use of communications technologies. The record number of entries for the 2009 ACOMM Awards reflects the maturity and professionalism of this industry, both of which are integral to inspiring digital confidence among our users.
“On behalf of the industry, I congratulate all of the award winners, finalists and our 2009 Telecommunications Ambassadors, Hugh Bradlow and Bevan Slattery, on their commitment to achieving new standards of industry excellence,” Ms Hurley commented.
Telstra Enterprise & Government was the winner of the Innovation for a Large Company Award, with Leopard Labs taking out the Innovation SME Award.
This year there were three ‘Services to the Industry’ winners. Truman Hoyle Lawyers secured the prize for Professional Services Excellence, while Pipe Networks took the Partnerships for Growth Award. The Commitment to Customer Service Award was shared by iiNet for Consumer Customer Service and Telstra Enterprise & Government for Corporate Customer Service.
The Environmental Responsibility Award was won by Internode.
The inaugural Innovation in Content Delivery and Services through Partnership Award was won by a partnership between Dialogue Communications and Singtel Optus.
The industry’s top honour for individual achievement, the 2009 Telecommunications Ambassador Award, was shared by Hugh Bradlow of Telstra and Bevan Slattery of Pipe Networks.
Hugh is recognised as both a technologist and a futurist, having being involved in the establishment of what is now a recognised centre of research excellence at the University of Wollongong. He is also a fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering.
With an outstanding record as a visionary, Bevan has a personal quest to advance Australia’s access to technology and promote progress in the telecommunications market.
Commenting on the outcome, Communications Day Publisher, Grahame Lynch said: “The 2009 Awards evidence a new high standard of industry excellence. Tonight’s trophies were presented to the industry’s ‘most deserving’ but the real winners are Australian businesses and consumers who are being increasingly well served by an innovative, competitive and growing communications sector.”
A comprehensive listing of this year’s Award finalists and their accomplishments is available at www.commsalliance.com.au
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ABOUT COMMUNICATIONS ALLIANCE
Communications Alliance is the peak body for the Australian communications industry. It presents a unified voice for its members in public policy, facilitates industry solutions to industry issues, and provides up-to-date information on industry issues. Communications Alliance is also leading the industry's response to the National Broadband Network implementation. For further information see www.commsalliance.com.au
ABOUT COMMS DAY
Communications Day is the major daily telecommunications newsletter published under the Decisive Publishing stable. It was founded in Sydney in 1994 and launched what was then an innovative product for Australia's duopolistic telecom sector, a two-page daily fax newsletter about all matters telecom called Communications Day. Fourteen years later, Communications Day is still going strong, regarded by many as the bible of Australia's telecom industry and boasting a subscriber list that reads like a who's who of the industry. In turn, it has become one of the world's most successful Internet-only publications.
In 2001 Decisive launched CommsDayAsia - later to become CommsDay Global, which have also attracted loyal and influential subscribers across Asia, America and Europe. Decisive now employs one of the largest dedicated telecom media teams in the world – six journalists in three continents - Australia, Asia and North America - as well as accessing the European content of two dedicated writers working for TelecomTV.com based in London. Decisive has also diversified into conferences, with its annual CommsDay Summit. For further information see www.commsday.com
