Affected by the epidemic, MWC2020 has been cancelled

MWC2020 will be postponed

Sina Digital News on the morning of February 13th, whether the 2020 Mobile World Congress (MWC2020) will be held is finally settled. In the early hours of this morning, the GSMA announced after an internal meeting that MWC2020 was canceled due to the impact of the new coronavirus pneumonia epidemic.

GSMA CEO John Hoffman (John Hoffman) said that due to the global spread of the new coronavirus pneumonia, it is no longer possible for the GSMA to continue to hold the conference. Barcelona as host city understands and respects this decision. GSMA and the host city will work together to host next year’s MWC conference.

The MWC conference has always been a grand event in the communication industry, and many mobile phone manufacturers will showcase their latest products at the MWC conference. But in this special period, MWC2020 seems to be a little different.

At present, it has been less than two weeks before the original plan to start the MWC exhibition, but technology giants such as Ericsson, LG, Amazon, Nvidia, Sony, Intel, etc. have announced their withdrawals one after another, and many other companies have reduced the scale of the event.

With a number of tech giants announcing their withdrawals or downsizing, whether this year’s exhibition can be held as scheduled has been closely watched.

Previously, the event organizer GSMA has successively announced a number of safety measures. For example, those entering from Hubei Province are prohibited from participating in the exhibition, and those who have visited China need to prove that they have left China 14 days before the opening of the exhibition, and conduct temperature checks on all personnel.

The cancellation of this year’s exhibition will also bring certain economic losses. Foreign media revealed in the report that the cancellation of the exhibition is expected to lead to a loss of 492 million euros.

The recent exhibitions affected by the epidemic are not only MWC. The annual home appliance event AWE, originally scheduled to be held in Shanghai from March 11 to 14, has been postponed.

The Mobile World Congress (MWC), held in Barcelona, ​​Spain every February, is the most important annual event in the field of smartphones and mobile communications in the world. Smartphone manufacturers will also use this exhibition to release flagship phones and major technologies in the new year. Innovation, more than 100,000 visitors come to Barcelona for this event every year.

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