The AfricaCom awards are recognised as the premier accolade fro any service provider, vendor or regulator operating in Africa’s digital market.
- Seacom – SEACOM’s African Ring
- Orange – Internet for All
- Tigo Tanzania – Network Improvement
- SkyVision – Project Mauritius
Best Quality User Experience
Winner: Ericsson – Ericsson Multiscreen Self-care
- Orange – My Orange
- Deloitte Digital – Data Visualisation
- Orange – My Orange Facebook
- Orange – Internet Everywhere
- Roamtech Solutions Ltd – Music Service
- Citrix – T3100 Adaptive Traffic Manager
Best Cost Efficiency Solution for Africa
Winner: Liquid Telecom – Liquid Telecom – the longest fibre links in Africa
- World Telecoms Lab – WTL’s 2nd Generation VoIP
- Conduct Telecommunications – Open access, dark fibre infrastructure in the last mile
- Astellia and Econet Wireless – Revenue Assurance
- PeerApp – UltraBand transparent caching platform
- TKM Maestro Limited
Rural Telecoms Award
Winner: Safaricom limited – VUMA online
Other Nominees
- Orange – Mobile Agricultural Info (Labaroun Kassoua)
- Econet Solar International – HPS Home Power Station
- Helios Towers Africa – Shared Telecoms Infrastructure
- Vodacom Business Nigeria- Machine-to-Machine (M2M) Solutions
- SkyVision – Project Rodrigues
Best Connectivity Solution for Africa
Winner: Seacom – Remote Peering
- Orange – ACE Cable
- Poynting Antennas (Pty) Ltd – Subterranean Cellular Base Station
- Conduct Telecommunications – Open access, dark fibre infrastructure in the last mile
- Bluwan – Bluwan’s BroadFusion access solution and the Access in Africa project
- Liquid Telecom – Liquid’s fibre network
Best Marketing Campaign
Winner: Orange – Orange African Cup of Nations 2013
- OgilvyOne Africa – Marketing Campaign for Airtel Nigeria – Padi Na Good Thing O! – Half Dollar
- Liquid Telecom – ‘I Am’
- MTN – Welcome to the World
Best Mobile Marketing Campaign
Winner: Mobitainment – The Excella’nt Competition
- Orange – E-Recharge & Win -Botswana
- OgilvyOne Africa – Mobile Marketing Campaign for Airtel Kenya – FREE Your Smartphone
Best Digital Music Initiative
Winner: Spice VAS Africa Pte Ltd – MOD360
Other Nominees
- OgilvyOne Africa – Online marketing campaign for Airtel FRNDZ Unlimited Offer
- Mahindra Comviva – Digital Music Library
- Roamtech Solutions Ltd – Bonyeza 699
Best Mobile Money Service
Winner: Mahindra Comviva – Ecocash
Other Nominees
- Orange Niger – Mobile Ticketing
- Safaricom Limited – M-Shwari
- Orange – Orange Money Visa Service
- ORANGE – Orange Money International Transfer
- Mer Group Telecom Division – Mobile FinaGate
Best App for Africa
Winner: Prezence – Bid or Buy
Other Nominees
- SatPack Travel- Africa: Live App
- Orange – My Orange
- Opera Software – Opera Mini
- Prezence – Real Time Wine
- ydangle apps (Pty) Ltd – Flick
Most Innovative Service
Winner: MTN Swaziland – MTN XtraTime
Other Nominees
- Intersec – Loyalty Management Suite 5.0
- Arabsat – Satellite communication services
- TXT Ghana Ltd – Job 1917
- Deloitte Digital – Data Visualiser
- ORANGE – My Orange Facebook
- Safaricom Limited – Cashless Payment Solution
- Orange – Mobile Yellow Pages (User Generated Content Directory)
- PCCW Global – PCCW Global: Delivering IPX in Africa
Best Pan African Initiative
Winner: Seacom – SEACOM’s IP Network
- Tata Communications – Africa Connectivity and Collaboration Expansion
- Orange – International Airtime Hub
- Orange – Orange Regional Money Transfer
- SkyVision – SkyVision South Africa
- PCCW Global -Landlocked But Not Locked Out
Industry Personality of the Year
Winner: WIOCC – Chris Wood
- Safaricom Limited – Betty Mwangi-Thuo
- Liquid Telecom – Nic Rudnick
Changing Lives Award
Winner: Open Idea – Medigraf: Remote Medical Diagnostics
- Orange – Mobile Agricultural Info (Labaroun Kassouwa)
- Orange – EDUCI
- MTN Swaziland – MTN Schools’ Connectivity Project
- YooMee Africa AG – Broadband internet access for students and faculty, University of Douala, Cameroon
