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,
Read MoreIn 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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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 ...
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The open application store industry is where iPhone will see competition. PocketGear has bought out Handango
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... 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)
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Visa taps 2D bar codes for mobile sweepstakes at MWC
Explore Article Mobile Marketer (Feb 18 2010)
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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)
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Microsoft Windows Phone Series 7, Samsung Wave and Scenes from MWC 2010
Explore Article eweek.com (Feb 17 2010)
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