Awards will acknowledge the position of girls within the progress of small cell architectures and enterprise
London, UK, 8 February 2023 – SCF (Small Cell Discussion board) has introduced that submissions at the moment are open for the SCF Business Awards 2023, the one completely unbiased awards occasion supporting technical innovation in, and the deployment of agile, cost-effective, scalable, mobile infrastructure and options by established and rising service suppliers.
SCF Business Awards 2023
The classes have been up to date this yr to replicate the business and modifications in applied sciences. There are classes for deployments by MNOs, impartial hosts and personal community operators, in addition to award classes for contribution to applied sciences, architectures, Open Networks, chips and elements.
A brand new SCF Ladies in Wi-fi Award class has been added for 2023, rewarding important technical, business or strategic contributions to accelerating the event and deployment of agile, low-cost and sustainable small community infrastructure, by particular person ladies, or by organizations that allow and empower the contribution of girls.
The SCF Business Awards, previously the SCF Small Cell Awards, are open to the entire business (you don’t have to be an SCF member) and they’re judged independently by a panel of business analysts and journalists. This yr’s judging panel consists of Keith Dyer, editor of The Cellular Community; Sue Rudd, Director of Networks and Service Platforms, Technique Analytics, Dean Bubley, founding father of Disruptive Evaluation, Roberto Kompany, Principal Analyst, Service Supplier Networks, at Omdia and Mark Keenan, CEO of Actual Wi-fi.
Caroline Gabriel, Chair of the judging panel, analyst and co-founder of Rethink Analysis, commented: “I’m delighted to announce the launch of the SCF Business Awards 2023, an occasion that’s at all times a novel alternative to reward and have fun business achievements.
“Yearly we’re impressed by the usual of the entries and the innovation and dedication to delivering excellent small cell deployments which have actual business worth or social and financial advantages. I’m significantly delighted to announce the brand new Ladies in Wi-fi award, as a result of attracting and retaining feminine expertise in our business has been notoriously troublesome. For SCF to reward corporations and groups bucking this pattern will hopefully shine a light-weight on how modifications will be made to enhance the inequality.”
Submissions at the moment are open, and entries will shut on 20 March. The gala dinner and awards ceremony will happen on 23 Could, on the primary night of SCWS in London.
Award classes:
Excellence in business deployment by an MNO
Excellence in business deployment by impartial host
Excellence in business deployment by a personal community operator
Excellent small cell expertise in business use
Excellent software program and companies expertise for small cells, in business use
Excellent contribution to rising expertise, structure and open networks
Excellent innovation in chips or elements to allow small cell networks
Industrial services or products to allow multi-operator and impartial host enterprise fashions
Social Impression – Selling Small Cells for Social/Financial/Environmental Improvement
Ladies in wi-fi award
To seek out out extra, view all of the classes and standards or submit an entry, go to https://www.smallcellforum.org/awards-2023/
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About SCF
SCF is a world group whose mission is to allow and speed up the sustainable digital transformation of business, enterprises and communities. We do that by supporting a variety of agile, cost-effective, scalable, mobile infrastructure and options for established and rising service suppliers and deployers.
We collect necessities from service suppliers and companies and these inputs form our work program. Our specs, technical papers and enterprise-focused outputs are made freely obtainable to profit the broader business.
Right now our members are engaged on initiatives spanning break up architectures, personal networks, impartial host necessities and enterprise mannequin evolution, 5G small cell merchandise, and coverage and regulation.
