Last week the Wireless Broadband Innovation Awards dinner took place in London and I had the honor of participating as a judge, though regrettably couldn't be there in person. The 2006 WBI award winners are:
- BT Openzone, U.K.--Best Service Provider
- Boingo Wireless--Best Aggregator/Wholesale Provider
- Symbol Technologies MSP--Innovation in Wireless Security Management
- McDonalds public Wi-Fi by Wayport--Best Enterprise Deployment (Commercial)
- The Royal Hospitals, Belfast, U.K.--Best Enterprise Deployment (Public Sector)
- Scottsburg, U.S.--Best Muni-WiFi Deployment
- Appear IQ and The Cisco 2700 Location Appliance--Best Enterprise WiFi Product
- Free-hotspot.com--Best Public WiFi Product
- Tropos MetroMesh Architecture--Best WiMAX / Wireless Broadband Product
- Ruckus Wireless--Best Consumer Wireless Product or Service
- CiceroPhone - wVoIP for Mobile Phones--Best VoIP Product
- Wavesat--Most Innovative Wireless Broadband Company
- Selina Lo, Ruckus Wireless--Wireless Individual Achievement
- Brian Dolan