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The Service Provider Forum of the Telecom Council of Silicon Valley’s Zephyr Award for Best Mobile Opportunity

San Mateo, California – February 6, 2008 – Smaato, a pioneering provider of mobile advertising platform technology announced that it has been nominated for a SPIFFY Award – The Zephyr Award for Best Mobile Opportunity.

These awards are given by the Service Provider Innovation Forum
(SPIF) of the Telecom Council of Silicon Valley to recognize and acknowledge outstanding innovation and execution by Telecom entrepreneurs. By their nomination, this global set of Operators and Service Providers including AT&T, British Telecom, NTT DoCoMo, Orange, Swisscom, Vodafone and many others, have indicated to the rest of the Telecom industry that Smaato is a company to watch.
The Service Provider Forum Annual Networking and Recognition Event with the award ceremony will be held Feb. 28th in Palo Alto.

“Our Service Provider members review hundreds of new telecom ideas, products, and services each year, said Liz Kerton, President of The Telecom Council. ”While we saw plenty of mobile advertising startups in the past year, Smaato’s unique approach of an Open Mobile Ecosystem with their Mobile Advertising Platform stood out and got them nominated.”

Smaato CEO Ragnar Kruse was selected to join the new Steering Commitee for the dotMobi Advisory Group (MAG). “I think the work of the dotMobi MAG is very valuable in driving a wider adoption of the mobile web. I am honored to join the Steering Commitee and help move the open mobile economy forward, especially the mobile [...]