Dialog Axiata Group Chief Executive, Dr. Hans Wijayasuriya (c), with the award. Also in the picture are Chief Technology Officer of the Global GSM Association Alex Sinclair (L), Gareth Beavis of TechRadar (2L) Suzi Perry – Awards Host, TV presenter (2R) and OrtisDeley – Awards Host and TV presenter (R).

Sri Lanka’s, Dialog Axiata PLC, claimed top honours once again at the Mobile World Congress held in Barcelona Spain this week, winning the award for the Best Mobile Network Solution for 
Serving Customers. 

The annual Global Mobile Awards at the Mobile World Congress are considered the Oscars of the mobile world, where the global industry converges to showcase the latest and best in Mobile Technologies and Services. 

Dialog’s award winning innovation came in the form of an advanced mobile network technology innovation featuring an unique orchestration of Mobile Network Application Programme Interfaces (APIs) manifesting in the Dialog Self-Care Application Framework and Dialog Self Care App.

Dialog’s unique approach to simplifying the interface between complex network technologies and the end-consumer beat out worldwide competition to secure the top spot in the category. Other nominees for the award included Huawei, KT (Korea Telecom), TaiwanStar Telecomand Ufone Pakistan.

The Dialog Self-Care application framework spans across Dialog’s multiple service verticals featuring mobile and fixed telecommunications, high speed broadband and digital pay television, and empowers customers to engage seamlessly with the company’s exhaustive range of over 200value added service options. 

Group Chief Executive of Dialog Axiata, Dr. Hans Wijayasuriya, receiving the award from the Chief Technology Officer of the Global GSM Association Alex Sinclair, paid tribute to the company’s 10 Million over Sri Lankan customers, “I would like to thank our many millions of customers for inspiring this innovation,” he said, and followed with attributing the achievement to Dialog teams from across multiple functional areas, whose combined expertise and effort delivered a truly unique service technology platform. 

Dialog has consistently placed Sri Lanka as a leading market on the world map of Mobile Telecommunications, having first won a Global Mobile Award in 2001. The company has bagged a total of 6 Global awards since then, two of which were secured at last year’s 2015 Mobile World Congress, for eZ Cash (Best Mobile Money Platform) and Ideamart (Best Technology Enabler).