Winners of the Mobile Industry Awards 2024 Announced
The annual Mobile Industry Awards event for 2024 was held last night at the Royal Lancaster in London, which among other categories saw Sky Mobile being named the ‘Best MVNO‘ (virtual) operator, while EE won the ‘Retailer of the Year‘ and VOXI’s GenAI Chatbot was named ‘Innovation of the Year‘.
As usual, this is one of those industry events where the shortlists for each of the categories are all judged by a panel of 20 people who either work directly within or alongside the same industry, with no real consumer representation. Take the results with a pinch of salt.
One slightly interesting aside to all this is that Vodafone’s related press release (here) notes how their ‘Great British Broadband Switch’ campaign was also shortlisted for ‘Campaign of the Year’. In the end, Lebara Mobile won that category, which is probably just as well considering that the advertising watchdog recently had a few bones to pick with Vodafone’s campaign (here).
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Mobile Industry Award Winners 2024
- Innovation of the Year Product or Service: VOXI GenAI Chatbot
- Best Mobile Service & Solution Provider: Aerial Direct
- Best Wholesale Service & Solution Provider: Three Wholesale
- Best Recycling and Refurbishing Service (sponsored by Compare and Recycle): Preloved Tech Ltd
- Best Repair Service: Likewize
- Best Mobile/Gadget Insurance Service (sponsored by Bamboo Distribution): Asurion
- Best Mobile Security Product or Service: Appdome
- Distributor of the Year: Eurostar Global Electronics
- Retailer of the Year: EE
- Campaign of the Year: Lebara Mobile
- CSR Initiative of the Year: Vodafone
- Sustainability Initiative of the Year (sponsored by Sky Zero): Mobile Component Repair – TMT First
- Team of the Year: Three UK – Retail Experience Team
- Best Customer Service: Tesco Mobile
- Best Place to Work: Genuine Solutions
- Best MVNO: Sky Mobile
- Best Network for Business: Three Business
- Best eSIM Provider: GKT eSIM
- Best SIM Only Network (sponsored by GK Telecoms): SMARTY Mobile
- Network of the Year (sponsored by Likewize): EE
- Smartphone Manufacturer of the Year (sponsored by Lebara): Samsung
- Accessory Manufacturer of the Year: Belkin International
- Phone of the Year: Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra
- Person of the Year (Power 50 Winner): Marc Allera, EE and Consumer Division at BT Group
- Shop Idol: Aadil Naveed, Vodafone
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Sustainability Initiative of the Year (sponsored by Sky Zero);
Best MVNO: Sky Mobile
Best SIM Only Network (sponsored by GK Telecoms): SMARTY Mobile;
Best eSIM Provider: GKT eSIM
Network of the Year (sponsored by Likewize): EE;
Best Repair Service: Likewize
Smartphone Manufacturer of the Year (sponsored by Lebara): Samsung;
Campaign of the Year: Lebara Mobile
You don’t think there’s any relationship between sponsoring the beanfest and winning an award??
No, why?