Dialog wins big at Mobile World Congress
View(s):Dialog Axiata PLC, Sri Lanka’s premier connectivity provider, won two global awards at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) held recently in Barcelona Spain.
The company said its premier Mobile Payment Network eZ Cash beat out worldwide competition to win the Global Award for the Best Mobile Money Service. eZ Cash connects close to two million Sri Lankan Mobile users with 16,500 Merchants and Service Provides through the country’s largest Mobile Payment and Transaction Gateway.
Dialog won a second award as the “Best Technology Enabler”. The world award winner in this category – Dialog’s Ideamart platform manifests an innovative solution to the “opening up” of Mobile Networks to the application development and enterprise solution development communities.
“Mobile Money and Payment is a high-profile subject across the Global Mobile Industry, and we are indeed humbled to have been judged the winner of the Global Award this year,” noted Dr. Hans Wijayasuriya, Director and Group Chief Executive of Dialog Axiata PLC. “This is a true Sri Lankan victory- founded on the progressive and innovative policy environment established by the Central Bank and the TRCSL, combined with the trusted governance and stewardship of our custodial bank HNB, participation of our peer service providers Etisalat and Hutch, prowess of a cutting edge Mobile Transaction Platform developed in Sri Lanka by the Dialog team, and an expansive eco-system of partnerships bringing together a wide portfolio of merchants and service providers”.
Dr. Wijayasuriya was also featured as a keynote speaker during the Mobile World Congress along with eminent speakers like Vittorio Colao – CEO of Vodafone, Rajeev Suri – President and CEO of Nokia,Brian Krzanich CEO of Intel, Mark Zuckerberg – Chairman and CEO of Facebook, Bill McDermott – CEO of SAP and Jimmy Wales – Founder of Wikipedia.
Dr. Hans Wijayasuriya delivers the keynote address at the Mobile World Congress while Fariq Cader, Head of Operations for eZ Cash of Dialog Axiata receives the Global Award for the Best Mobile Money Service from Jon Fredrik Baksaas, Chairman GSMA, President, CEO Telenor Group (R) and awards show presenter and actor, John Cleese.