{"id":8992,"date":"2019-02-07T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-07T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.telecomstalk.com\/?p=8992"},"modified":"2019-02-07T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T12:00:00","slug":"world-communication-awards-returns-with-new-categories-and-expanded-independent-judging-panel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.telecomstalk.com\/?p=8992","title":{"rendered":"World Communication Awards returns with new categories and expanded independent judging panel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Now in its 21st year, the WCA will again reward outstanding telecom quality and innovation<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The World Communication Awards (WCA) returns to London in October for its 21st year, where the winners of the most coveted awards in the industry will be announced at a ceremony acknowledged as one of the highlights of the telecom calendar.<\/p>\n<p>Increasing the scope this year to reflect a widening range of technologies and solutions, 2019\u2019s WCA will include brand new categories for Network Security, IPTV and New Commercial Models, as well as individual awards for CEO, CTO and Woman in Telecoms.<\/p>\n<p>The WCA sets itself apart from other industry awards because of its rigorous assessment process by judges handpicked from the cream of global experts. New judges this year include Jose Otero of 5G Americas; Lee Tuthill of the World Trade Organisation; and Mahesh Uppal of Com First (India). The new judges are part of a 50-strong independent panel of experts, executives and leaders from the telecom industry. Their impartiality, evident year on year, has helped consolidate the WCA as the gold standard of industry awards.<\/p>\n<p>Rob Chambers, Managing Director of Total Telecom, said: \u201cHaving more than 50 expert and recognisably impartial judges adds hugely to the credibility of the WCA and the value for participants of making it onto the shortlist. I am hugely grateful to all those who freely commit many hours of their time to asses and score entries and then to meeting with other judges to debate the finalists and winners\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In 2018, the Award winners included BT, Cisco Japser, Deutsche Telekom, Huawei, Orange, Telia Carrier and Verizon.<\/p>\n<p>Established in 1999, this year\u2019s awards will be held at the iconic Grand Connaught Rooms in London on 30 October. The deadline for entries is Friday 17th May and a full categories brochure with details on how to apply can be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcommsawards.com\">www.worldcommsawards.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now in its 21st year, the WCA will again reward outstanding telecom quality and innovation The World Communication Awards (WCA) returns to London in October for its 21st year, where the winners of the most coveted awards in the industry will be announced at a ceremony acknowledged as one of the highlights of the telecom [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.telecomstalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.telecomstalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.telecomstalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.telecomstalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.telecomstalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.telecomstalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.telecomstalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.telecomstalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.telecomstalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}