WHAT IS THE REAL REASON FOR THE CANCELLATION OF THE MOBILE PROGRAM? THE RISK OF INFECTION, EXTERNAL PRESSURES, ECONOMIC INTERESTS, OR DETACHMENTS ARE AMONG THE POSSIBLE REASONS.

The saga is finally over and the organizers have cancelled the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona due to the crisis caused by the coronavirus.

After a significant trickle of companies canceling their attendance at MWC over the past week, the event organizers (GSMA) have made the difficult decision to cancel it. Although they decided yesterday at an extraordinary meeting to proceed with the Barcelona event, they ultimately announced last night in a brief statement that they would cancel the event, which generates a significant business activity. 50 million euros. Despite health authorities' insistence that there was no risk to the population, the withdrawals of large companies such as Vodafone, Orange, Deutsche Telekom, Facebook, Amazon, Nvidia, LG, SONY or Intel These factors have weighed more heavily on the organization to announce the drastic but expected decision to cancel it.

The question now on the table is Was the risk of contagion so significant as to warrant suspending this event? Were there any other reasons besides the risk of coronavirus transmission that led to the cancellation? These are questions that undoubtedly remain unanswered and will be the subject of debate in the coming days. In fact, we're already seeing initial criticism of companies like Sony, Cisco, and Intel, which canceled their Barcelona event but will instead be attending MWC in Amsterdam. In the end, practically only the major players remained as attendees.Chinese companies such as Xiaomi, Realme or Huawei , who had announced the presentation of their new devices in a big way on mobile.

The GSMA has had to fight a tough battle in recent weeks, fueled by both political and economic interests. Since last February 5th, the Korean mobile phone manufacturer LG Since the announcement that it was canceling its participation due to fears of the coronavirus, a continuous wave of withdrawals has been unleashed, which neither the organizers, the government, the Generalitat (Catalan government), nor the Barcelona City Council have been able to stop. Undoubtedly, the minimal but real risk of any attendee contracting the coronavirus at the major fair also weighed heavily on the organizers. This would have been too much of a burden for the organizers and would likely have jeopardized the event's future editions.

Now all that's left is to think about the 2021 And they promised it would be the best international mobile and technology conference in history. The cancellation of the event undoubtedly leaves a significant mark on the field. affordable in Barcelona and Spain which we will still hear a lot about in the coming days.