Winners to be announced at Fullerton Hotel Sydney, April 6 from 7-9pm Special guest of honour: Federal Minister of Communications, the Arts and Cybersafety Paul Fletcher THE FINALISTS BEST SATELLITE PROVIDER * Optus BEST TELECOM MARKETING INITIATIVE * NBN Co * Optus for the FIFA Womens World Cup * Orion Satellite Solutions * Cisco for Internet for the Future * MNF Connexus for Pay It Fwd BEST VIRTUAL NETWORK OPERATOR * Skymesh for Satellite Internet Marketing * Belong Campaign * Circles.Life * Vocus for Less Grrr and More Ahhh * Dodo Mobile BEST TELECOM LAW FIRM BEST FIXED BROADBAND PROVIDER * Allens * Aussie Broadband * Bird&Bird * Optus * Clayton Utz * Vodafone * King & Wood Mallesons BEST MOBILE OPERATOR BEST TELECOM NETWORK VENDOR * Telstra * Casa Systems * Vodafone * Ciena Blue Planet * Cisco THE JUDGES * Ericsson * Nokia * TELSYTE managing director and principal analyst Foad Fadaghi BEST FIXED WIRELESS PROVIDER * HKBN chief technology officer and former * Optus NBN CTO Gary McLaren * Field Solutions Group * CommsDay chief editor and former CWI editor Simon Dux * Mindshare Communications principal BEST IOT PROVIDER Veronica Kennedy-Good * NNNCo * IIC president and former ACMA chair * Taggle Systems Chris Chapman * Telstra * ACCAN CEO Teresa Corbin * Former CommsDay editor Geoff Long BEST CLOUD PROVIDER * Former TRANSACT architect Robin * DGIT Eckermann * Telstra * AMTA CEO Chris Althaus * CommsDay founder and CEO Grahame Lynch Congratulations to all finalists! Contact [email protected] for booking information .