Cannes had hosted the fair for ten years but the growth of the sector and the importance that this technology fair was progressively acquiring made it necessary to find a new location for it. It was then that the GSMA reached an agreement with the city of Barcelona. The facilities that Fira de Barcelona had and has in L'Hospitalet de Llobregat were presented as the ideal place to celebrate an event of this magnitude.
In addition to being located in a privileged geographical location, with mild temperatures at the time when the Mobile World Congress is usually held, Barcelona and its Fira offer the GSMA 94,000 square meters to hold their fair. Some 2,400 exhibitors have been installed on this surface in the last editions of the event.
During the years of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona , some particularly significant moments in the history of telephony have been experienced. In Barcelona, the Nokia 8800 and the Motorola RAZR V3x (in 2007) were presented. The first smartphones with an Android system in history (the Nokia E71 and the HTC Magic) were presented in Barcelona. Apple and its iPhones had undoubtedly emerged as tough competitors. After them, HTC and Samsung with their Galaxy S range made history in the universe of mobile technology, turning the Android system into what it is today.
In each of the editions of the Mobile World Congress, a series of prizes are usually awarded for the best innovations and the most outstanding products presented by the different companies present at the fair. These awards are always an excellent advertisement for the awarded products. Although there are always exceptions. In 2009, for example, the INQ1 mobile received two awards. A few months later, INQ, the Hong Kong company that manufactured this mobile had to close and the winning mobile stopped being manufactured.
For some years, too, anti-prizes were awarded at the MWC. The Fiasco Adwards, as these anti-awards were called, "awarded" the worst technological product of the year. These awards, which were awarded between 2009 and 2013, were awarded by computer engineers. One of the companies awarded with this award was BlakBerry. The Fiasco Adwards was delivered to you due to the failures of your messaging system. This same award was given ... to the iPad! It was criticized for lacking USB or micro SIM cards. Be that as it may, the truth is that history cannot be refuted and the Apple iPad was and is a bestseller within the sector.
The future of the Mobile World Congress
Talking about the relationship between the Mobile World Congress and Barcelona is something like talking about a crush. The Mobile World Congress found in Barcelona an ideal setting in which to develop and Barcelona found in the MBC a unique opportunity to reinforce its brand and, of course, to do a splendid business.
The importance of the Mobile World Congress is so important for the city of Barcelona that the respective government teams of the Barcelona City Council have promoted policies and made decisions aimed at ensuring that GSM continues to trust Barcelona as the host city of the mobile congress.
Among the measures that the Barcelona City Council has taken in recent years to ensure that this very important fair remains in the city, we must highlight the creation of direct metro lines to the fairgrounds, the increase in the security perimeter of the same , the contribution of volunteers at no cost for the organization of the event, the creation of a technological event for children or the annual renegotiation of taxes so that the fiscal impact for the organization is as low as possible. All these measures, without a doubt, show how many benefits the Mobile World Congress has for Barcelona, Catalonia and Spain.
But in recent years, it must be admitted, the love affair between Barcelona and the Mobile World Congress has become muddied. Or, at least, it has partly. After all, every love relationship ends up taking a toll on time. The events related to the institutional conflicts between the Generalitat de Catalunya and the Central Government as a result of the independence sentiment of a high percentage of the Catalan population and its reflection in the political representation of its autonomous community has a lot to do with it. Even a directly competing autonomous community (ideologically and economically) such as the Community of Madrid has expressed, through the voice of its President, the desire to become the future headquarters of the desired congress. The denial expressed in this regard by the Government of Spain and the qualifications expressed by the autonomous Madrid government itself have not managed to completely remove the concern, expressed on various occasions, by the Barcelona and Catalan business community.
And, to top it all, COVID. As we indicated at the beginning of this article, the Coronavirus forced the suspension of the 2020 edition of the Mobile World Congress. That only increased the number and intensity of speculation. What will become of the MWC? Will Barcelona, in the coming years, continue to host the famous and lucrative international mobile fair?
In principle, what can be affirmed is that, according to sources from the GSMA itself, it plans to fulfill the commitment signed with Barcelona to hold the Mobile World Congress here until 2023 and to extend it for another year, until 2024, to compensate for the loss. of this pandemic year.
The dates of the Mobile World Congress 2021 are known for now (it will be held between March 1 and 4, 2021 at the Fira Gran Via facilities) and it is also known, according to the General Director of GSMA, that it will be partly face-to-face and partly virtual. It has also been stated that health security will be enhanced, an aspect that is already being worked on.
The format of the famous mobile congress will thus be renewed. The GSMA's commitment to the city of Barcelona as the venue for an event that provides the company with 80% of its annual revenue appears to be firm. It is likely, then, that this misstep is only a small bump in the love story that the famous mobile fair and Barcelona have maintained for years.
Hundreds of escorts in each edition of the Mobile fair
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