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:: ACOMMS: 2008 Winners
There were three ‘Services to the Industry’ winners. Herbert Geer Lawyers secured this year’s prize for Professional Services Excellence, while Alcatel-Lucent took the Partnerships for Growth award. The Commitment to Customer Service for a Large Company award was won by Uecomm with Telarus taking out the Commitment to Customer Service – SME award. The inaugural Environmental Responsibility award was won by Telstra. The industry’s top honour for individual achievement, the 2008 Communications Ambassador award, was presented to Simon Hackett, CEO and founder of Internode. In the form nominating him for the award, he was described as having taken “a leadership role in Australia’s broadband sector since its emergence in 2000-2001. Simon is an activist CEO who is driven to deliver customer value and technical innovation as well as achieve commercial success”. Commenting on the outcome, Communications Day Publisher, Grahame Lynch said: “The 2008 Awards evidence a new high standard of industry excellence. Tonight’s trophies were presented to the industry’s ‘most deserving’ but the real winners are Australian businesses and consumers who are being increasingly well served by an innovative, competitive and growing communications sector.” A comprehensive listing of this year’s Award finalists and their accomplishments is available from the www.commsalliance.com.au website. Industry sponsors for the Communications Alliance Annual Dinner at which the Awards were announced, included Platinum sponsors Pipe Networks and Telstra Wholesale and Gold sponsor KPMG. 2008 ACOMM Award Winners
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