- For more than 15 years, the Fierce Network Innovation Awards have recognized excellence and leadership across telecom and cloud
- Five new categories include Carrier of the Year, Broadband Workforce Development, Municipal/Public Connectivity Programs, Rural Broadband Deployment and Tribal Lands Broadband Deployment
- Deadline to submit is Oct. 17, 2025
Submissions are open for the 2025 Fierce Network Innovation Awards. This prestigious program celebrates the innovators, disruptors, and changemakers behind the most groundbreaking cloud, wireless, and broadband technologies of the past year.
For more than 15 years, the Fierce Network Innovation Awards (formerly the Fierce Telecom Awards) have recognized excellence and leadership across telecom and cloud, highlighting the competitive drive and creativity that propel the industry forward.
“Our awards program has always reflected the evolution of the industry,” said Elizabeth Coyne, Editor in Chief of Fierce Network. “With five new categories added this year, we’re looking forward to honoring the next wave of solutions and changemakers transforming connectivity.”
2025 award categories include:
- AI Innovation
- Analytics/Automation
- NEW: Broadband Workforce Development
- Business Service Innovation
- BSS/OSS Innovation
- NEW: Carrier of the Year
- Cloud Networking Innovation
- Cloud Data Center Innovation
- Customer Engagement Innovation
- Digital Divide Impact
- IoT Innovation
- NEW: Municipal/Public Connectivity Program
- Network Test and Measurement
- Next-Gen Deployment Fiber/Wireline
- Network Security Innovation
- NEW: Rural Broadband Deployment
- Sustainability Achievement
- Top Changemaker
- NEW: Tribal Lands Broadband Deployment
- Wireless Innovation – Core
- Wireless Innovation – Fixed Wireless
- Wireless Innovation – Mobile Evolution
- Wireless Innovation – Private Wireless Networks
- Wireless Innovation – RAN
Entries will be evaluated by an expert panel of judges, who will recognize the companies and solutions that most effectively save costs, enhance customer engagement, and revolutionize networks and the communications ecosystem.
Deadline to submit
The program is open for submissions through October 17. For more information about the Fierce Network Innovation Awards and how to submit, click here.
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