About Mobile World Congress

The Mobile World Congress is the combination of the world's largest exhibition for the mobile industry and a congress featuring prominent Chief Executives representing mobile operators, vendors and content owners from across the world. The event was previously known as the 3GSM World Congress, and is still often referred to as 3GSM,

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In 2007, approximately 55,000 people attended.

The Mobile World Congress in 2008 took place at the Fira de Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, in February. Until 2006, when it moved to Barcelona, it took place in Cannes.

Mobile World Congress 2008 statistics:

* In total, more than 55,000 visitors — including delegates, exhibitors, contractors and media — attended the event, making this year's event the largest yet.
* More than 230 chief executives and other high-level speakers from across the world attended the show.
* More than 43% of conference attendees hold C-level positions within their organisations.
* 2,700 international print, Web and broadcast media covered the show
* 1,300 companies exhibited their offering across 1,500 stands with approximately 29,000 square metres of exhibition space and 30,000 of square metres of hospitality space

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  2. Mobile ad space hot acquisition target, while VCs target mobile developers - RCR Wireless News

    Explore Article Mobile Technology (May 3 2010)

    Mobile ad space hot acquisition target, while VCs target mobile developers - RCR Wireless News ...which rich multimedia is expected to ride. Going forward, a trio of venture capitalists speaking at Mobile World Congress last month said they expected to see mobile application developers as attractive VC targets, in par... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Android   Mobile World Congress   Google

  3. Nuance announces “trace” input for text… sounds like it’s been swyped from somewhere

    Explore Article gomonews.com (Mar 23 2010)

    ...be predicted from the line you traced, you’ll get offered a list of options. I got to test Trace at MWC, and including the time spent choosing the correct word from a list, the entry of even short words ... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Technology   Mobile World Congress

  4. How do banks and operators feel about mobile banking?

    Explore Article gomonews.com (Mar 5 2010)

    How do banks and operators feel about mobile banking? I had a surprising chat with mobile roaming provider at Mobile World Congress. Particularly with Abraham Punnoose, VP of Marketing & Business Development. You can see the first ... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Technology   Mobile World Congress

  5. Mobile traffic management - video confusion

    Explore Article Dean Bubley's Disruptive Wireless (Mar 2 2010)

    A lot of my meetings at MWC two weeks ago were about managing mobile broadband traffic - by offload, by compression, by policy ... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Technology   Ericsson   Acision

  6. NNG offers navigation app for 3 platforms

    Explore Article gomonews.com (Feb 23 2010)

    NNG offers navigation app for 3 platforms ...bit of exaggeration going on here as, while it might have shown products for all three platforms at MWC, Barcelona, the Windows Mobile app isn’t out yet. That’s according to the company web site. However... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   iPhone   Android   LG Electronics

  7. The open application store industry is where iPhone will see competition. PocketGear has bought out Handango

    Explore Article gomonews.com (Feb 23 2010)

    The open application store industry is where iPhone will see competition. PocketGear has bought out Handango ... quotes its most recent "billion" landmark, and the Wholesale Application Community announcement at MWC last week was the very definition of grandstanding. But in the older market of platform agnostic ap... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   iPhone   Sprint Nextel   Mobile World Congress

  8. Mobile World Congress 2010 - A review by Strand Consult

    Explore Article gomonews.com (Feb 23 2010)

    ... 49,000 people with a unique relationship to the mobile industry were gathered in Barcelona for the Mobile World Congress. There is no doubt that the conference has been a great success - when you put that many people in ...... head for the most beautiful flowers” Looking through the other announcements from Nokia during the MWC, the biggest news was that Nokia actually had almost nothing to announce. When ... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   iPhone   Android   Vodafone

  9. Consumers don’t really use Blackberry apps - so here come Super Apps for businessmen

    Explore Article gomonews.com (Feb 19 2010)

    Consumers don’t really use Blackberry apps - so here come Super Apps for businessmen ...velopment surrounding the Super App. RIM ran the Blackberry App World day in the App Planet are of Mobile World Congress - and attracted over 700 people throughout the day (without needing to give away free smartphones).... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   iPhone   Mobile World Congress   App World

  10. Visa taps 2D bar codes for mobile sweepstakes at MWC

    Explore Article Mobile Marketer (Feb 18 2010)

    Visa taps 2D bar codes for mobile sweepstakes at MWC ...ated with Neustar Inc. for a mobile sweepstakes to showcase the power of 2D bar codes at the GSMA's Mobile World Congress 2010 in Barcelona, Spain. Visa Inc. collaborated with Neustar Inc. for a mobile sweepstakes to show... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Technology   Yankee Group   Mobile World Congress

  11. Mobile World Congress: 49,000 visitors go home, sated on Google, Microsoft and Apple

    Explore Article Mobile Marketer (Feb 18 2010)

    Mobile World Congress: 49,000 visitors go home, sated on Google, Microsoft and Apple BARCELONA, Spain – The Mobile World Congress 2010 closed its doors yesterday with a big fanfare about mobile applications and a total of 49,000 ... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Technology   iPhone   AT&T

  12. Engineers as marketers: a mobile marketing strategy that seems to be working pretty good for InMobi

    Explore Article gomonews.com (Feb 18 2010)

    Engineers as marketers: a mobile marketing strategy that seems to be working pretty good for InMobi ...t. GoMo News has reported on InMobi a lot in the past, and I leapt on the chance to talk to them at MWC. I spoke to InMobi Founder & CEO Naveen Tewari and VP of Global Marketing, James Lamberti. We had a... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Technology   Mobile World Congress   Apple

  13. Mobile Offload: It’s So Hot Right Now

    Explore Article GigaOM (Feb 17 2010)

    Mobile Offload: It’s So Hot Right Now ... use. Mobile Offload: It’s So Hot Right Now By Colin Gibbs Feb. 17, 2010, 5:00pm PST No Comments 0 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week has produced some eye-catching developments, from Microsoft’s unveiling of i... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Vodafone   Orange   RIM

  14. Verizon, ATandT, Other Operators Bond In Wholesale Applications Community

    Explore Article eweek.com (Feb 17 2010)

    ...an alliance known as the Wholesale Applications Community. As part of the announcement, made at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the alliance detailed how it will build an open platform for mobile applications deli... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Technology   iPhone   AT&T

  15. Microsoft Windows Phone Series 7, Samsung Wave and Scenes from MWC 2010

    Explore Article eweek.com (Feb 17 2010)

    Despite the constant rain and cold temperatures, attendees turned out in droves for this year's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, with more than 1,300 companies in attendance and more than 50,000 people from 180 cou... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Twitter   Android   Mobile World Congress

  16. Guest Post: Twam, The Reality of Twitter Spam

    Explore Article Mobile Messaging 2.0 (Feb 16 2010)

    Guest Post: Twam, The Reality of Twitter Spam ...ome “twam” that for many of us is hitting our mobile handsets at an unwelcoming rate. This week the Mobile World Congress event is in full swing in Barcelona, Spain and there is one company taking a pretty major stand aga... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Airwide Solutions   Twitter   Mobile World Congress

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