Next Wednesday during the CTIA show, a baker’s dozen companies will be honored for their technology. Its part of the CTIA’s annual Emerging Technologies Awards, which this year drew nearly 300 entries.

CTIA has announced three finalists in each of the 13 categories, which cover a broad expanse of technologies used in wireless telecommunications. Some are well-known wireless veterans, like Alcatel-Lucent, Nokia and Samsung. There are some from the Internet world, notably Yahoo! And some are not as well-known.

The categories include 4G service creation, development and service management; consumer applications; enterprise solutions; consumer electronics accessories and products; smartphones; mobile widgets, and network infrastructure.

The list is too long to publish here, but if you want to see the list of finalists, here’s the CTIA’s site: http://www.ctiawireless.com/info/etech.cfm.