HELSINKI, Finland, January 24/PRNewswire/ -- Valimo Wireless has been named as a Category Finalist for the GSMA 2008 Mobile Innovation Global Award, sponsored by Ericsson, for the Most Innovative Consumer Application or Service. Being an award finalist recognizes Valimo's mobile signature and identity solution as 'best of breed'.

This is the second phase of the awards process whereby the judges have narrowed down the shortlist to ten category nominees - two from each of the five categories - who will present their innovative technologies to a judging panel at the Mobile Innovation Marketplace held in Barcelona, 11-12 February 2008. One finalist from each of the five categories and one overall winner will be selected and announced in Barcelona.

"We are thrilled with the number of high-quality entries we've received this year for the Mobile Innovation Global Awards," says Bill Gajda, Chief Commercial Officer of the GSMA. "The Mobile Innovation Marketplace in Barcelona will play a major role in redefining how new mobile products and services are brought to market and provides a rare opportunity for innovators to pitch their new technologies and business propositions to senior executives within the mobile operator community."

The mobile phone is becoming the universal multipurpose electronic ID. Valimo is the leading provider of mobile phone based identity solutions. Valimo's mobile signature and identity solution enables people to extend and control their identity using their existing mobile phone anytime, anywhere. Mobile signatures combine the strongest security with the best user convenience to sign what could not be signed before, including online banking and other eCommerce.

"We are very proud of this achievement and thank the Mobile Innovation Award team for this honor. Valimo would also like to thank Turkcell and Valimo's other mobile operator customers for making mobile signatures available to 65 million mobile subscribers worldwide," says Tapio Vailahti, Valimo CEO. "Turkcell's customers can use Valimo's mobile signatures for a wealth of services including online banking at 12 banks, plus government form signing and corporate email and document signing."

Being selected as a Category Finalist for the GSMA 2008 Mobile Innovation Global Award adds to Valimo's growing list of honors. Valimo was also chosen by Frost & Sullivan's analyst team to receive the 2007 Frost & Sullivan European Excellence in Technology of the Year Award, recognizing the business potential of Valimo's end-to-end mobile signature and identity solution.

Valimo is the only provider of end-to-end mobile signature and identity solutions including a SIM client application available from the three largest SIM vendors. The Valimo Mobile Authentication Client (VMAC) is rapidly becoming the industry standard.

Meet Valimo at the GSMA Mobile World Congress, Fira de Barcelona, Spain, 11-14 February 2008, Hall 1 Booth 1 F62, or at Valimo's booth in the GSMA Mobile Innovation Marketplace in Hall 7.

About Valimo Wireless

Helsinki-based Valimo Wireless is the leading provider of mobile signature solutions for mobile operator, bank and corporate customers.

Valimo's solutions are used by more than 40 European and Middle Eastern customers to date, assuring protection against various security attacks like phishing, cost savings thanks to digitalization of various currently paper-based processes and introduction of new business cases enabled by the convenient mobile signing capability.

Valimo is growing strongly with offices in Finland, France, Germany, Sweden and Turkey.

For more information about Valimo, please visit http://www.valimo.com

"Valimo" is a registered trademark of Valimo Wireless Ltd in Finland and other countries. Copyright (c) 2008 Valimo Wireless Ltd. All rights reserved.

Source: Valimo Wireless

Contact: Valimo Wireless, Tapio Vailahti, CEO, Valimo, Tel: +358-9-4365-0080