SLT-MOBITEL bags two prestigious awards at TM Forum Digital Transformation World - DTW24 IGNITE

Reiterating its leadership in developing innovative sustainable solutions, SLT-MOBITEL, the National ICT Solutions Provider, was honoured with two key prestigious accolades at the TMForum Digital Transformation World - DTW24 IGNITE Awards on June 20, 2024, in Copenhagen, Denmark. The awards include Best Moonshot Catalyst - Growth Challenge for the project ‘SmartHive xG’ in recognition of its excellence in developing a blueprint for deploying cost effective 5G Services for Smart City Environments and Open Innovation Outstanding Catalyst – Use of TMForum Assets for the project ‘GenAI Powered toolkit for Network and Service Management’ in recognition of enhanced user experience through Gen AI powered Service fulfillment. 

As an apex body for driving innovation and collaboration, the TM Forum Catalyst Program serves as a testbed for groundbreaking ideas within the communications ecosystem, promoting a culture of co-creation and association. Communications Partners, Vertical Champions, and Solution Partners from around the globe come together to create groundbreaking ideas that can transform business models and elevate digital lifestyles while mitigating societal impacts. This year, over 50 Catalyst projects competed, showcasing groundbreaking innovations developed through the fusion of technology.

The Moonshot Catalyst project teams specifically collaborate globally across continents to create technically excellent solutions with game-changing business models and societal impact to win the Moonshot Catalyst team awards. 42 members from 9 global players (3 of which are Communications Service Providers) coming from 5 countries representing SLT-MOBITEL (Fixed and Mobile), Botswana Telecom (BTC), BrandMed, Enocta, Resolute Education, Covalencedigital, Etiya, and N-able collaborated as partners, engaging from Sri Lanka, India, Botswana, South Africa, and Turkiye. The winning project, ‘SmartHive xG,’ showcased an Open Digital Architecture (ODA) compliant, AI-native Smart City blueprint, specifically targeting the iconic Smart City development in Sri Lanka. The SmartHive xG project envisions utilizing SLT-MOBITEL’s future-ready 5G network infrastructure to build smarter, sustainable, and greener cities, thereby enabling Sri Lanka to progress towards digital advancements. 

The award for ‘Open Innovation Outstanding Catalyst – Use of TMForum Assets’ for the project Gen AI Powered Toolkit for Network and Service Management was led by SLT-MOBITEL (Fixed & Mobile) and included 8 other champions and 6 participants with complementary backgrounds in Network, OSS/BSS, GenAI/ML, no code development, and service orchestration. The Catalyst projects provide a basis to undertake an operational transformation by a ‘Generative AI based Toolkit’ encompassing a Large Language Model and Knowledge graph. This helped simplify and assist in decision making across network operational domains, by rapid access to contextual information & insights, enabling communication service providers to further optimize operational process transformation, improve resolution times, and help reduce carbon footprint. Furthermore, the project demonstrated the capability of Closed Loop Intent Based Service Orchestration using TMForum Open API’s, with a direction to achieve AN (Autonomous Network) level 4.

This year, SLT-MOIBITEL championed four catalyst projects, of which two projects were recognized as winners. The project ‘GenAI Powered Toolkit for Network and Service Management’ was listed as a finalist under the category ‘Open Innovation Outstanding Catalyst- Application of AI and Automation’ while the project ‘Mighty Minions: Unleashing domain-specific GenAI via SLMs’ was a finalist for the ‘Best Moonshot Catalyst - Attendees' Choice Award’.

SLT-MOBITEL’s recent recognitions at the TM Forum Digital Transformation World 2024 Awards underscore the power of a unified team and effective collaboration to solve complex challenges. Further, the recognitions also underpin SLT-MOBITEL’s strong commitment to Environment Social Governance through it’s ‘Co-Connection’ ESG strategy. 

As Sri Lanka’s National ICT Solutions provider, SLT-MOBITEL continues to innovate to drive growth with minimum impact on the environment and the communities it serves, thereby leading Sri Lanka towards its next phase of digital advancement. 

About SLT-MOBITEL

With a rich history spanning over 163 years, SLT-MOBITEL is the National Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Solutions Provider in Sri Lanka, catering to the nation's connectivity needs across fixed, mobile, and other operational segments. Offering a comprehensive range of ICT solutions, SLT-MOBITEL serves consumers with a digital lifestyle through services like Voice, Fiber, ADSL, 4G LTE, Cloud Services, Enterprise Solutions, wholesale and international ICT solutions, IPTV services, eChannelling, and various value-added services. In its transformation into a digital service provider, SLT-MOBITEL has expanded beyond traditional ICT services, leveraging its core strengths and expertise to deliver innovative products and services. As a key global player, the company connects Sri Lanka to the world via international submarine cable systems and offers additional services such as submarine cable maintenance, Human Resources solutions, Directory services, Digital marketing solutions, and software solutions.

SLT-MOBITEL Mobile boasts a strong legacy of technological firsts in South Asia. It launched the region's first Super-3.5G HSPA network in 2007, followed by the trial of HSPA+ and MIMO technology in 2009. In 2011, it demonstrated 4G-LTE technology for the first time in South Asia and later trialed 4.5G LTE-Advanced Pro Technology with Carrier Aggregation of three bands. In 2017, SLT-MOBITEL Mobile deployed Sri Lanka's first Sub-1G Mobile Broadband Network using a 900MHz spectrum to enhance rural coverage. The company's leadership continued in 2018 with the launch of South Asia's first commercial 4.5G/4G+ Mobile Network and successful 5G trials. Recognized by Ookla® as the Fastest Mobile Network in Sri Lanka for three consecutive years (2019-2021), SLT-MOBITEL's growing customer base reflects its commitment to national vision and customer-centricity, embodied in its credo, ‘The Connection.’ For more information, visit www.sltmobitel.lk.

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