T-Mobile Honors Top Innovators at Inaugural “Unconventional” Awards
September 29 2022 - 10:16PM
Business Wire
The Un-carrier recognizes customers who are
disrupting their industries, breaking conventions and challenging
the status quo
The Un-carrier is Un-conventional. So, it’s no surprise that
T-Mobile (NASDAQ: TMUS) created an award to recognize and celebrate
T-Mobile for Business customers who dare to innovate. The
first-ever Unconventional Awards took place on September 29 at
Mobile World Congress in Las Vegas, NV, honoring customers in three
categories: Innovation in Customer Experience, Innovation in
Employee Enablement and Innovation in Industry. T-Mobile awarded
the first-place finishers in each category with a $25,000 in-kind
donation to their charity of choice.
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T‑Mobile Honors Top Innovators at
Inaugural “Unconventional” Awards. The Un‑carrier recognizes
customers who are disrupting their industries, breaking conventions
and challenging the status quo. (Graphic: Business Wire)
“We know a thing or two about innovating and transforming how
work gets done, and we wanted to recognize that same spirit in the
customers we support,” said Callie Field, President, T-Mobile
Business Group. “We created the Unconventional Awards to honor
organizations driving business and education forward with original
thinking. This is more than just celebrating the winners’
accomplishments — it’s also a tribute to being bold and taking
risks to advance business and education.”
Here are the first-place winners, recognized for their
innovation in each category:
- Customer Experience: Tennessee State University
(Nashville, TN) – Developed an academic Esports program using
T-Mobile 5G to recruit and retain underserved students by creating
pathways from gaming to STEM.
- Employee Enablement: Goodwill of North Georgia (Atlanta,
GA) – Created a donation tracking program that utilizes T-Mobile’s
network to digitize information that helps revolutionize employee
productivity and satisfaction.
- Industry: Morehouse College (Atlanta, GA) – Launched the
world’s first “Metaversity,” offering virtual reality classroom
experiences, powered by T-Mobile 5G, that are changing the future
of learning and education.
Second and third place finishers in each category were awarded
in-kind donations of $10,000 and $5,000, respectively, to their
charity of choice, and include:
- Customer Experience: 2nd — Amazon Explore, Inc.; 3rd —
Motlow State Community College
- Employee Enablement: 2nd — Unifi; 3rd — Black &
Veatch
- Industry: 2nd — Highlands Community Charter and
Technical Schools; 3rd — Uber
Award criteria was based on embracing unconventional DNA,
demonstrating originality and measuring impact — decided by a panel
of judges including Phillipa Leighton-Jones, Barron's Group SVP,
The Trust, The Wall Street Journal; Will Townsend, VP &
Principal Analyst — Networking & Security, Moor Insights &
Strategy; Matthew Griffin, Founder, 311 Institute; and Kimberly
Wyman, VP of Customer Care for Business, T-Mobile.
“We were all blown away by the creative ways organizations are
pushing boundaries and evolving experiences for their employees,
customers and students across a wide variety of industries,” said
Wyman. “At T-Mobile, we’re all about forward-thinking solutions,
and it was incredibly inspiring to see so many of our customers
taking an unconventional path to find new ways of doing
business.”
To learn more about the T-Mobile for Business Unconventional
Awards, visit www.t-mobile.com/business/unconventional-awards.
Follow T-Mobile’s Official Twitter Newsroom @TMobileNews to stay
up to date with the latest company news.
About T-Mobile
T-Mobile US, Inc. (NASDAQ: TMUS) is America’s supercharged
Un-carrier, delivering an advanced 4G LTE and transformative
nationwide 5G network that will offer reliable connectivity for
all. T-Mobile’s customers benefit from its unmatched combination of
value and quality, unwavering obsession with offering them the best
possible service experience and undisputable drive for disruption
that creates competition and innovation in wireless and beyond.
Based in Bellevue, Wash., T-Mobile provides services through its
subsidiaries and operates its flagship brands, T-Mobile, Metro by
T-Mobile and Sprint. For more information please visit:
https://www.t-mobile.com.
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