SCF Industry Awards open for entries – including new Women in Wireless category for 2023

Awards will recognize the role of women in the progress of small-cell architectures and business

SCF (Small Cell Forum) has announced that submissions are now open for the SCF Industry Awards 2023, the only entirely independent awards event supporting technical innovation in, and the deployment of agile, cost-effective, scalable, cellular infrastructure and solutions by established and emerging service providers.

The categories have been updated this year to reflect the industry and changes in technologies. There are categories for deployments by MNOs, neutral hosts, and private network operators, as well as award categories for contributions to technologies, architectures, Open Networks, chips, and components.

A new SCF Women in Wireless Award category has been added for 2023, rewarding significant technical, commercial, or strategic contributions to accelerating the development and deployment of agile, low-cost, and sustainable small network infrastructure, by individual women, or by organizations that enable and empower the contribution of women.

The SCF Industry Awards, formerly the SCF Small Cell Awards, are open to the whole industry (you don’t need to be an SCF member) and they are judged independently by a panel of industry analysts and journalists. This year’s judging panel includes Keith Dyer, editor of The Mobile Network; Sue Rudd, Director of Networks and Service Platforms, Strategy Analytics, Dean Bubley, founder of Disruptive Analysis, Roberto Kompany, Principal Analyst, Service Provider Networks, at Omdia and Mark Keenan, CEO of Real Wireless.

Caroline Gabriel, Chair of the judging panel, analyst, and co-founder of Rethink Research commented: “I am delighted to announce the launch of the SCF Industry Awards 2023, an event that is always a unique opportunity to reward and celebrate industry achievements.

“Every year we are impressed by the standard of the entries and the innovation and commitment to delivering outstanding small cell deployments that have real commercial value or social and economic benefits. I am particularly delighted to announce the new Women in Wireless award because attracting and retaining female talent in our industry has been notoriously difficult. For SCF to reward companies and teams bucking this trend will hopefully shine a light on how changes can be made to improve the inequality.”

Submissions are now open, and entries will close on 20 March. The gala dinner and awards ceremony will take place on 23 May, the first evening of SCWS in London.

Award categories:

Excellence in commercial deployment by an MNO

Excellence in commercial deployment by neutral host

Excellence in commercial deployment by a private network operator

Outstanding small cell technology in commercial use

Outstanding software and services technology for small cells, in commercial use

Outstanding contribution to emerging technology, architecture, and open networks

Outstanding innovation in chips or components to enable small-cell networks

Commercial products or services to enable multi-operator and neutral host business models

Social Impact – Promoting Small Cells for Social/Economic/Environmental Development

Women in wireless award

To find out more, view all the categories and criteria, or submit an entry, visit https://www.smallcellforum.org/awards-2023/

 

About SCF

SCF is a global organization whose mission is to enable and accelerate the sustainable digital transformation of industry, enterprises, and communities. We do this by supporting a range of agile, cost-effective, scalable, cellular infrastructure and solutions for established and emerging service providers and deployers.

We gather requirements from service providers and businesses and these inputs shape our work program. Our specifications, technical papers, and enterprise-focused outputs are made freely available to benefit the wider industry.

Today our members are working on projects spanning split architectures, private networks, neutral host requirements and business model evolution, 5G small cell products, and policy and regulation.

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