Durham, NC – Urban Planet has been selected to receive the 2011 Frost & Sullivan Asia Pacific ICT Award for Most Innovative Application Provider of the Year. The award is part of Frost & Sullivan’s program to recognize outstanding performance in the Asia Pacific ICT industry, and is decided by a distinguished panel of judges comprising senior executives from the industry, circle of CIOs/CTOs and Frost & Sullivan analysts.
The Frost & Sullivan Awards are presented to companies that demonstrate best practices in their industry, commending the diligence, commitment, and innovative business strategies required to advance in the global marketplace.
Urban Planet was selected because of the innovation of its Urban English Learning program and the positive impact it can have on society. The program is available through local mobile phone providers and allows subscribers to receive detailed English lessons daily to their cell phones via text messages (SMS) with an attached English Learning ring tone.
Urban Planet Mobile will receive the award on Thursday, 9 June 2011, 6:00pm, at Shangri-La Hotel Singapore. All the award recipients representing the who’s who of Asia Pacific’s ICT industry, including senior executives from service providers, vendors and the media, will attend this banquet.
CEO and President of Urban Planet Mobile, Brian OliverSmith, will accept the award. “The Frost & Sullivan Asia Pacific ICT Awards recognize companies and individuals that push the boundaries of excellence,” said Mr. OliverSmith. “Some of the biggest names in ICT were up for this award and, once again, our Urban English program has stood out from the rest.”
Frost & Sullivan provides cutting-edge innovative growth solutions and strategies to some of the world’s leading Global 1000 companies. With the largest team of analysts in Asia Pacific, the Frost & Sullivan ICT Practice is dedicated to researching the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) industry in the region. Their detailed and rigorous analysis of the region’s information, communications technology and telecommunications industry provides business intelligence to some of the largest and most influential companies in the Asia Pacific region.
Urban English is the largest, most comprehensive library of English Language learning for mobile education and because of smart product design the daily lessons are available to 95% of handsets and reach 85% of the English learning population worldwide. The Urban English line is being expanded using the current audio as the building block for an animated library to exploit the growing web enabled, smart phone market, while retaining design simplicity to still reach the greatest percentage of the worldwide market.
Urban Planet Mobile is the leading provider of education and information products created specifically for delivery via mobile phone. With products ranging from basic word and phrase lessons to SAT preparation, Urban Planet Mobile is the only company to develop English lessons for delivery to any mobile phone.