The Future in Mobile Phones
February 15, 2008
Most people come to Barcelona to gaze at the remarkable architecture and enjoy the extraordinary Spanish “tapas”. This week, the influx of people was due to Barcelona being the host to the 3GSM World Congress–the biggest trade show for GSM cell phones, networks, and related technologies–filled the town.
The show included the launch of the next-generation mobile phones with video and/or broadcast television, GPS, touch screen displays and lean profiles.
More than 55,000 visitors attended the world’s leading mobile event, the GSMA’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, to do business and debate the future of the mobile phone industry, making this year’s event the largest until now. The three-day conference, which attracted more than 230 chief executives and other high-level speakers from around the world, attracted more than 8,000 delegates.
Arun Sarin, CEO of Vodafone, actor and filmmaker Robert Redford, Wang Jianzhou, CEO of China Mobile, John Chambers, CEO of Cisco, Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, CEO of Nokia, Black-Eyed-Peas front man will.i.am and film actress and filmmaker Isabella Rossellini were among the various array of speakers at the Congress.
Scrutinizing, investigating and covering the Congress were 2,700 international print, Web and broadcast media and the event made headlines across the globe. The Congress also hosted 1,300 exhibitors across 1,500 stands with approximately 29,000 square metres of exhibition space and 30,000 of square metres of welcome space.
The Mobile World Congress’s sister event, the Mobile Asia Congress, which takes place in the wonderful city of Macau from November 18th to November 20th, will also stage a world-class conference programme and exhibition, attracting mobile industry leaders from across the world.
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Written by Sophie · Filed Under Technology
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