Thursday, June 18, 2009

Dublin firm wins major telecoms award

Blue Ocean Wireless, a Dublin firm that develops communications technology for the global shipping industry, has won a Global Telecom Business Innovation Award.

Along with its partner, ip.access, it won the award for the wireless network infrastructure innovation category at in front of an audience of senior telecoms executives from around the world in London, according to businessworld.ie.

Blue Ocean Wireless and ip.access won the Award for BOW's global service, which uses ip.access nanoGSM picocells on commercial ships to provide on-board 2G mobile phone connectivity to merchant seafarers.