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2025 Glotel Awards Shortlist

Congratulations to all of the companies who have been shortlisted for the 2025 Glotel Awards. Read the article by Scott Bicheno (Editor of Telecoms.com and Lead Judge) here.

Please see a full list of all shortlisted companies by category below.

The winners will be announced during a glittering awards ceremony in London on 4th December 2025.


5G Innovation of the Year

  • Batelco By Beyon
  • Helium Mobile
  • Jio Platforms Ltd.
  • Radisys, Nokia and Orange
  • WaveMaker/Nokia

Advancing Artificial Intelligence

  • Axiata Digital Labs
  • China Telecom and ZTE
  • InterDigital
  • Rakuten Symphony
  • Sogeti, part of Capgemini

Automation Initiative of the Year

  • China Mobile (Liaoning) and Huawei
  • Ericsson
  • Mycom and Globe Telecom
  • Turkcell and Huawei
  • VodafoneThree

Best Digital Transformation Project

  • Boldyn Networks
  • Qvantel
  • Safaricom and Red Hat
  • Turkcell
  • Viettel AI and Data Services Center

Best Application of Agentic AI

  • AIS
  • Amdocs
  • AsiaInfo and China Mobile Guangxi
  • Netcracker
  • stc and Huawei

BSS/OSS Modernisation Excellence

  • BT in partnership with Virtusa
  • Etiya
  • Kansys
  • Safaricom Kenya and Huawei
  • Tecnotree

Climate Action Initiative of the Year

  • Beyon
  • Capgemini Engineering
  • China Mobile Henan and Huawei
  • Samsung Networks
  • Vodafone Business Technology

Connecting the Unconnected

  • HFCL
  • Mavenir
  • PT Telkomsel
  • Tata Communications
  • ZTE

Delighting the Customer

  • Aprecomm and ACT Fibernet
  • Huawei and China Mobile Guangdong
  • PT Telkomsel
  • Telkomsel and Huawei
  • Viettel Tanzania

Digital Infrastructure Innovation

  • BT Wholesale
  • China Telecom Global
  • NTT and Chunghwa Telecom
  • SONiC Foundation
  • Telstra InfraCo

Driving Digital Transformation

  • B'yond Platforms
  • Infosys
  • Quantexa
  • Vail Systems
  • vHive

Enterprise Solution Excellence

  • AsiaInfo, China Telecom Hainan, and CHN Energy Hainan
  • Ericsson and DNB
  • Nomad eSIM
  • Singtel
  • SK Telecom

Fixed Network Evolution

  • HGC Global Communications
  • KT
  • LF Broadband
  • Netcracker
  • Turkcell

Groundbreaking Digital Services

  • Bango
  • B'yond Platforms
  • China Mobile Guangdong and Huawei
  • Comviva
  • TransUnion

IoT Initiative of the Year

  • 450connect and Comarch
  • China Mobile International
  • China Telecom Global
  • PT Telkomsel
  • Singtel

Managed Services Mastery

  • Netcracker
  • Singtel
  • ZTE

Most Innovative Cloud Offering

  • Turkcell, Red Hat, and Odine
  • Virgin Media O2
  • Wind River

MVNO Solution of the Year

  • 6D Technologies
  • Lifecycle Software
  • Netcracker
  • Optiva
  • Tecnotree

Operator Excellence

  • IOH
  • KT
  • Paradise Mobile
  • stc
  • Turknet

Outstanding RAN innovation

  • Capgemini Engineering
  • Ericsson and Telstra
  • InterDigital
  • SK Telecom and AWS
  • ZTE

Project Delivery Perfection

  • Freshwave and Midland Metropolitan University Hospital
  • HFCL
  • Netcracker
  • Telefonica Vivo & Huawei

Security Solution of the Year

  • Ericsson and DNB
  • Huawei and China Mobile
  • Jio Platforms
  • Proximus Global
  • SK Telecom

Telecoms Excellence

  • Cohere Technologies
  • Freshwave
  • Huawei & China Mobile Jiangsu
  • stc Bahrain
  • Turkcell TV+ and Huawei

Telecoms Marketing Team of the Year

  • Telecable
  • Telkom and Huawei
  • Telkomsel and Huawei