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MWC is back, just – is this a new normal or will it be real normal next year?
MWC is in the news but not for the reasons the organisers would like. In fact, reviews are very mixed and real news seems scarce. Read more…
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News
Mobile World Congress stays in Barcelona until 2024 – GSMA
The Mobile World Congress (MWC) will be held in Barcelona until 2024, extending its current contract by one year, the GSMA said. Read more…
Views
Ode to MWC – someone is missing Barcelona!
Our good friend, Dominic Smith from Cerillion, is really missing being in Barcelona this week so he wrote an ‘Ode to MWC’. Read more…
News
Coronavirus closes MWC 2020, but the show will go on
For years now the industry has faced talk of whether shows and trade fairs and some will now move online to hold digital product launches in lieu of MWC. Read more…
News
No back-up plan, so what will be the real cost of cancelling MWC?
For an event meant to showcase the power of telecoms, cancelling this year’s MWC without a backup plan has perplexed many in the trillion-dollar sector. Read more…
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GSMA and MWC – between a rock and hard place
This year’s Mobile World Congress (MWC) will be anything but normal. Through no fault of its own the GSMA is caught between a rock and a hard place. Read more…
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Should, or will, the Mobile World Congress (MWC) go ahead?
Should the Mobile World Congress (MWC) go ahead, as scheduled, in Barcelona in a few weeks’ time, despite the outbreak of coronavirus in China? Read more…
News
Mobile World Congress to proceed despite coronavirus outbreak
The upcoming Mobile World Congress Barcelona event will proceed as planned despite the international spread of coronavirus outbreak. Read more…
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5G realities sink in after MWC ends
MWC is over and while the stages have seen some confident predictions the reality is that 5G is early stage and it has significant issues. Read more…
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Has the MWC 5G bandwagon got its head in the Cloud?
Operators are pragmatic. We will not see any roll out of vastly expensive networks on the tried, tested – and failed – principle of ‘build it and they will come’. Read more…
Features
Q&A: Openet CEO on MWC, 5G and his birthday
Will consumers see the benefit of ‘5G’? Candidly, no. They won’t give a damn. They will see it as somewhere between 4G and WiFi. Read more…
Views
Don’t look now but VR might just be useful after all
We acknowledge that we tend towards cynicism. We blame industry hype (and our advancing years). Last year the hype around several technologies (AR, VR, 5G, you name it) reached new levels of absurdity. We even Read more…
Weekly Wrap
The Weekly Wrap 11, Feb 24, 2017: India mobile shake-up; MWC moanings
Weekly Wrap 11 features John Tanner and Tony Poulos discussing the news highlights from the week that was. For the week ending February 24: Telenor finally unloads its Indian operation, complete with subscribers, circles and Read more…
Off the Wire
SK Telecom to debut 360-degree live streaming VR platform at MWC
SK Telecom says that it will unveil its 360-degree virtual-reality live broadcast platform at the Mobile World Congress 2017 in Barcelona next week. The 360 Adaptive VR Live Streaming Platform is an end-to-end broadcast system Read more…