Macalla finalist for GSM Association Award

Macalla, an Irish provider of mobile e-commerce platforms and solutions, has been selected as a finalist by the GSM Associations in the "Best Wireless Developer" category for the GSM Association Awards 2002.

These awards are seen as very prestigious in the global GSM industry and the winners will be announced at the 3GSM World Congress in Cannes on February 19, 2002.

This nomination has arisen because, as well as other live deployments, Macalla's products have underpinned Europe's largest mobile e-commerce deployment for Postbank Nederland (ING Group) and Telfort (MM02) in the Netherlands.

In the first six months, this undertaking, combining SMS activated pre-paid top-up directly from subscribers' bank accounts with full function mobile banking, clocked up 500,000 users and million of transactions.

The 3GSM World Congress is the world's largest telecommunications show, and over 24,000 people are expected to attend this year, from 135 countries.