Coming again April 10/11 2017 May 2/3 2017 in 2018 Westin, Sydney Four Seasons, Sydney COMMUNICATIONS DAY

17 March 2017 SPECIAL EDITION ISSUE 5335

Some 300 industry executives gathered at Sydney’s Westin Hotel to celebrate Australian telecom industry excellence. 15 awards were handed out and two industry leading lights inducted to CommsDay’s new Hall of Fame. Here are some of the leading moments of many from last night

CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT: Comms Minis- ter Mitch Fifield, Bevan Slattery and MC Rod Bruem. Bevan Slattery accepting his induction into the Hall of Fame, NBN Co chairman Ziggy Switkowski ap- pears by video link. PHOTOS: Stephen Reinhardt CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT: Will Irving ac- cepts awards for best ISP and best mobile operator. Satellite head Paul Sheridan accepts his award from Rod Bruem and ACCAN’s Narelle Clark. Foxtel’s Deanne Weir accepts best SVOD provider award, with ASTRA’S Andrew Maiden and Rod Bruem. Shadow minister Stephen Jones has a joke on stage with Rod Bruem as he announces best VNO . NNN Co’s Rob Zagarella ac- cepts best IoT company award.

COMMUNICATIONS DAY 17 MARCH 2017 SPECIAL EDITION Page 2 LEFT: BigAir’s Jason Ashton accepts best fixed wireless operator award. BELOW: Huawei’s Jeremy Mitchell accepts best marketing initiative award from Mind- share’s Veronica Kennedy-Good and Rod Bruem

ABOVE: Hall of Fame inductee Bevan Slattery and Mitch Fifield deep in conversation. RIGHT: Minister Mitch Fifield gives the keynote speech.

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THE WINNERS LIST IN FULL Best telecom marketing initiative: WINNER: Huawei. FINALISTS: Cisco, Telstra Best telecom law firm: WINNER: King & Wood Mallesons. FINALISTS: Bird & Bird, Clayton Utz, Maddocks Best mobile device: WINNER: Optus X Sleek Smartphone Best cloud provider: WINNER: Telstra. FINALIST: BigAir, Cisco Best telecom core network vendor: WINNER: Nokia. FINALIST: Ericsson Best telecom software or support system vendor: WINNER: ECConnect. FINALIST: Cisco Best data centre operator: WINNER: Metronode. FINALISTS: Equinix, NextDC Best voice and hosted PBX provider: WINNER: MNF. FINALISTS: , Symbio, Vocus Best fixed wireless operator: WINNER: BigAir. FINALISTS: NBN, Optus, Vertel Best virtual network operator: WINNER: Amaysim. FINALISTS: Foxtel, NextDC, Southern Phone Company, Symbio Best streaming video on demand provider: WINNER: Foxtel. FINALIST: Optus Best IoT/M2M company: WINNER: NNN Co. FINALISTS: Challenge Networks, Cisco, Huawei, Telstra, Vodafone Best satellite company: WINNER: Optus Satellite Best broadband provider/ISP: WINNER: Telstra. FINALISTS: Aussie Broadband, Foxtel, Optus, iiNet, Internode, TPG Best mobile operator: WINNER: Telstra. FINALISTS: Optus, Vodafone

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