Belfast, UK – 10th June 2010 - Aepona, the software company that enables a new era of profitable collaboration between mobile operators and application providers, is pleased to announce that it is the joint recipient of a Global Telecoms Business 2010 Innovation Award.  Ibrahim Gedeon, CTO of TELUS, Graham Trickey, Senior Director at the GSMA, and Michael Crossey, VP Marketing at Aepona accepted the award on behalf of Bell Canada, Rogers Wireless, TELUS , Aepona and the GSMA for its work on the Canadian OneAPI Pilot.

The Canadian OneAPI Pilot, an initiative that makes it easy for application developers to access the network and billing assets of multiple operators, was launched by the GSMA, TELUS, Rogers Wireless and Bell Canada in February 2010, with Aepona providing the technology platform and managed services.

“In late 2009 we set out, with Rogers Wireless and Bell Canada, to abstract our individual networks and billing systems and make them collectively available to developers, allowing them to easily create and monetize innovative mobile and web-based services” said Mr Gedeon.  “With support from the GSMA and our technology partners Aepona, Neustar and PayPal, we delivered a commercial platform within a few months of launching the project. This platform now provides developers with commercial access to the aggregated base of 22 million subscribers in Canada.”

In presenting the Awards, Alan Burkitt-Gray, editor of Global Telecoms Business, commented: “This is the fourth time we’ve run our Innovation Awards and each year we’ve seen that the industry is working harder and harder to deliver exciting and innovative services to its customers worldwide. Congratulations to all the award winners. The industry is seeing a wave of innovation which is making a huge difference — to the companies working in the industry and to all of us in business and as consumers. They are making such a difference to the world. We want to celebrate what they are doing.”