Smart nominated for Green Mobile Award
Posted on February 16th, 2009 under Uncategorized
Smart Communications is a nominee in the new “Green Mobile Award” category of the 2009 GSMA Global Mobile Awards for its cellular phone sites that are powered by renewable energy sources like wind and solar energy.
“We are very happy to receive the GSMA Global Mobile Awards nomination. As the Philippines’ leading wireless services provider, Smart recognizes the importance of initiating efforts such as the use of renewable energy sources to power off-grid base stations to help lower operating costs and reduce carbon emissions,” said Smart President & CEO Napoleon Nazareno.
This is the first time that the GSMA Global Mobile Awards is featuring the Green Mobile Award category which aims to recognize mobile operators that have initiated programs and projects to promote environmental protection and sustainability.
Smart, through its Network Services Division, initiated the Alternative Power for Cell Sites Program to power cell sites in off-grid locations with renewable energy sources. Presently, the company has 68 cell sites across the country powered by renewable energy — 41 run by wind energy and 27 using both wind and solar energy.
In December 2006, the company worked with a local vendor to set up the Philippines’ first windpowered cell site in Sitio Guimbitayan in Malapascua Island located north of Cebu province.
In the latter part of 2008, a GSMA Development Fund survey of 25 mobile operators across the developing world that use renewable energy sources revealed that Smart is the leader among mobile network operators worldwide in using wind energy to power its cell sites.
“Our congratulations go to all the nominees in this year’s Global Mobile Awards,” said Rob Conway, CEO of GSMA. “Mobile communications continue to drive social, economic and technological development, as the calibre of entries this year again illustrates.
“To have been nominated from such a high quality field of more than 450 companies that entered is a tremendous achievement, and we await the announcement of the winners at the next month’s Global Mobile Awards evening in Barcelona with great interest.”
The winner will be announced at the GSMA Global Mobile Awards Gala Dinner at the Palau Nacional in Barcelona, Spain on February 17.
The annual GSM awards aim to recognize and honor people, organizations and companies that deliver new ideas, methods or technologies that improve the quality of life of mobile subscribers and contribute to industry growth.
The GSMA consists of more than 750 mobile operators and 250 manufacturers and suppliers. Members currently provide mobile phone services to one billion customers in more than 200 countries and territories worldwide.
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