OREANDA-NEWS. To reward innovative Internet of Things (IoT) solutions for business customers, Deutsche Telekom Group is now accepting entries for the Business Wall of Fame contest in Austria, Croatia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Macedonia, Romania and Slovakia. The contest is geared towards developers who would like to promote their IoT solution and make it accessible to a wide audience. Of interest are innovative IoT solutions from all industries that simplify work for business customers.

Participants will reach the final if their IoT solution is liked. A community vote will determine the best solutions submitted in each country, after which an expert jury will select the national winners and the best international IoT solution. Each country’s best solution can win a national marketing campaign worth up to €30,000 and become a partner in Deutsche Telekom’s participating markets. The winning international solution can become partner of Deutsche Telekom Group across all eight countries and reach out to a potential of 10,8 million business customers. Deutsche Telekom Group has a great track record for bringing new technologies and services to market in a sustainable way. Therefore, the international winner will receive the expertise needed to maximize reach in sales and marketing.

Participants can increase their number of votes and chances of winning by activating their community to vote for them. And voting can pay off: All entrepreneurs and their employees who vote and register as a supporter of their favorite solution in Austria, Croatia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Macedonia, Romania and Slovakia, are eligible to win for their company a national marketing campaign worth €20,000 together with the winning IoT solution.

Deutsche Telekom considers the European business customer segment a strategic growth area. Deutsche Telekom offers small, medium-sized and multinational companies ICT solutions for an increasingly complex digital world. In addition to services from the cloud, the range of services is centered around M2M and security solutions, complementary mobile communications and fixed network products, and solutions for virtual collaboration and IT platforms, all of which forms the basis for our customers' digital business models.

About Deutsche Telekom

Deutsche Telekom is one of the world’s leading integrated telecommunications companies with around 151 million mobile customers, 30 million fixed-network lines and more than 17 million broadband lines (as of December 31, 2014). The Group provides fixed network, mobile communications, Internet and IPTV products and services for consumers and ICT solutions for business customers and corporate customers. Deutsche Telekom is present in more than 50 countries and has approximately 228,000 employees worldwide. The Group generated revenues of EUR 62.7 billion in the 2014 financial year - more than 60 percent of it outside Germany.