The organization of the Mobile maintains “for the moment” the congress despite the drop of losses

The GSMA has decided to keep the “Mobile World Congress” standing up for the moment and continue to watch closely how the coronavirus evolves despite the relentless dripping of casualties. Although the meeting where the decision was to be made about what to do with the event was scheduled for Friday, the organization held the meeting on Wednesday an emergency committee that was held at 2:00 p.m. Finally move on with the event. The meeting was attended by the 26 representatives of the agency, including Telefónica, Vodafone and Orange. To the losses of the last days some of great relevance have been added today like those of Orange, Vodafone, British Telecom, Deutsche Telekom, Nokia or Rakuten.

According to a GSM spokesman “the new coronavirus is a rapidly changing situation and that the GSMA is monitoring closely. This includes meeting regularly with health experts, both Spanish and worldwide, as well as with our partners, to ensure the welfare of the attendees. We have already implemented additional health measures before MWC 2020, and we will continue to seek expert medical advice on a regular basis. “

We will have to see what happens in the coming days – the event is scheduled to start on the 24th of this month. However, the observers consulted bet on a change of dates of the Mobile, to place it in the next autumn, possibly in the month of October, in the Catalan capital. By then, much of the uncertainties related to the Chinese virus could have been cleared up – for good or for bad -.

However, such an accommodation on the calendar will find the frictions of other major fairs already scheduled for those dates at the facilities of La Fira de Barcelona.

Tuesday's main casualty came from Intel, a world leader in microprocessors and of great ancestry in the industry as a whole. In your case, the US company will leave a rented area of ​​almost 900 square meters empty.

The Aragonese technology company Telnet Redes Inteligentes also announced its cancellation, which is already at least twenty companies that will not attend due to the pandemic. In his case, and according to Efe, Telnet has tweeted that he cancels his participation in the MWC because people are “the cornerstones” of the company, in a probable allusion to the safety of its workers in the event, in the event of a health emergency Global by the coronavirus emerged in the Chinese province of Hubei.

Cancellation List

Other cancellations made are those of the US giant AT&T; California's mobile connectivity and data traffic company Dali Wireless; that of the video technology firm Interdigital, based in Delaware, and that of the telecommunications company Iconectiv, of New Jersey. These companies are added to a list that also includes Ericsson, Intel, LG Electronics, Amazon, Sony, NTT Docomo, Umidigi, MediaTek, Gigaset, CommScope, Amdocs, Vivo, Accedian, Nvidia, Facebook, Cisco, AT&T, or Rakuten, Nokia and Deutsche Telekom. The last to join were Orange, Vodafone, British Telecom and Western Digital.

Long before the coronavirus became a threat, the main mobile phone manufacturers already preferred to present their main novelties outside the Mobile World Congress. This is the case of Samsung, which precisely unveiled its new family of Galaxy S20 smartphones.

LG Electronics was the first company to unsubscribe from the Mobile World Congress as a preventive measure against the Chinese virus, so its new LG G9 will be shown to analysts and specialized press in the coming days, in a place yet to be determined.

Exactly the same as with the South Korean manufacturer happens with Sony, whose new Xperia 5 Plus will be shown during the next few days in an event that will be broadcast in streaming for everyone.

The same will happen with Vivo, which hopes to “soon introduce the concept of Apex 2020 phones, which it planned to announce at MWC. The Chinese Xiaomi, which has confirmed its participation, prepares the Mi10 model in the bedroom, whose start It is planned for Barcelona, ​​among other consumer electronics products.

The Chinese ZTE also plans to attend the fair, but will suppress the press conferences and large product presentations. Huawei could show the assistants of Mobile the virtues of its new P40, while the observers of the sector monitor companies such as Alcatel, which could boast with its first folding smartphone, and Oppo, with its Find X2, prepared to show it to the public Within two weeks, during the Barcelona appointment. From Nokia you can expect the new Nokia 8.2, 4.3 and 5.2, while Realme expects to present its X50 Pro 5G, according to the firm Roams, telephone and Internet comparator. As happens every year, Apple's list of manufacturers must exclude Apple, a multinational that has never participated in any MWC.

The organization of the Mobile World Congress meets this Friday to see if it continues with the fair before the flight of companies

The Mobile World Congress, out of coverage