Gartner Announces Winner of 2009 Wireless & Mobile Excellence Award

Royal Mail Honored at Gartner Wireless & Mobile Summit

CHICAGO, IL., Gartner, Inc. today announced the winner of its inaugural Wireless & Mobile Excellence Award. The award was given to Royal Mail.

The award, which honors an enterprise that most clearlydemonstrates excellence in their wireless & mobile initiatives, was presented during the annual Gartner Wireless & Mobile Summit, held this week in Chicago.

Companies submitted their applications for the Gartner Wireless & Mobile Excellence Award based on how an organization delivered business value, technical implementation and best practices in their wireless initiatives. Gartner’s wireless & mobile research analysts evaluated the applicants and selected three finalists who presented their case studies at the Wireless & Mobile Summit. Attendees then voted to select the award winner.

About Gartner Wireless & Mobile Summit
The Gartner Wireless & Mobile Summit offers new concepts and best practices to increase ROI on wireless investment, insights on the future of wireless, and unbiased perspectives on devices, systems, integration and the latest trends. Gartner analysts and solution providers will help unravel the tangle of multiple generations of wireless technologies, evaluate new approaches to teleworking, assess the role of core technologies such as MIDs, RFID, and IP telephony and make sense of the looming platform battles for smartphones, and more. Additional information is available at www.gartner.com/us/wireless.

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