NANJING, China, October 25, 2021 - Whale Cloud has been named as a finalist in the Advancing Artificial Intelligence category of the 2021 Global Telecoms Awards (Glotel Awards). The Glotel Awards are Europe's leading awards program, recognizing innovation and excellence from the companies involved in advancing and transforming today's telecoms industry. This year's program featured 20 categories, including Best Operator 5G Innovation, Consumer IoT initiative of the Year and Most Innovative Cloud Technology, among others.

As the transformation of the network into a software environment progresses rapidly, so do the opportunities to use artificial intelligence to augment it. The Advancing Artificial Intelligence category awards the most significant AI advance in a telecom context. Whale Cloud helped China Mobile deploy an intelligent data mining platform in 2 months that supports forecasting, consumer-product relation analysis, customer segmentation, etc. to realize efficient and effective marketing campaigns. It facilitates self-service data analytics and streamlines data mining processes, empowering business users with no data processing skills to explore data for marketing purpose.

"We were especially impressed with the quality and quantity of entries to this year's Glotel Awards, given the uniquely challenging business environment faced by all," said Scott Bicheno, editor of Telecoms.com. "The process of narrowing them down to a shortlist was as difficult as ever and many worthy entries didn't make the cut. The telecoms world has demonstrated conclusively that, no matter what obstacles and headwinds it faces, the show must go on. The shortlisted achievements are a testament to the ingenuity, fortitude and downright hard work of our industry and I congratulate all of them."

Hundreds of high-quality entries were submitted for this year's awards. The Glotel winners will be announced via a Telecoms.com online video ceremony on 23 November.