About Mobile World Congress
The Mobile World Congress is the combination of the world's largest exhibition for the mobile industry and a congress featuring prominent Chief Executives representing mobile operators, vendors and content owners from across the world. The event was previously known as the 3GSM World Congress, and is still often referred to as 3GSM,
Read MoreIn 2007, approximately 55,000 people attended.
The Mobile World Congress in 2008 took place at the Fira de Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, in February. Until 2006, when it moved to Barcelona, it took place in Cannes.
Mobile World Congress 2008 statistics:
* In total, more than 55,000 visitors — including delegates, exhibitors, contractors and media — attended the event, making this year's event the largest yet.
* More than 230 chief executives and other high-level speakers from across the world attended the show.
* More than 43% of conference attendees hold C-level positions within their organisations.
* 2,700 international print, Web and broadcast media covered the show
* 1,300 companies exhibited their offering across 1,500 stands with approximately 29,000 square metres of exhibition space and 30,000 of square metres of hospitality space
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Quotes about Mobile World Congress
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“ Over the past year the femtocell industry has overcome major technical and business challenges paving the way in 2009 for operators to introduce commercial services. As such the Mobile World Congress is going to be a key event for operators to cement their consumer propositions to ensure their launches are as successful as possible. ”
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“ As the early standard-bearer of femtocells picoChip is proud to support the Femto Forum and The FemtoZone at this year's Mobile World Congress. ”
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“ This year's Mobile World Congress marks the beginning of the real acid test for femtocells. The FemtoZone will attempt to address the key issues, such as what is going to be the key driver for successful deployments, and are there going to be further technical hurdles to be addressed before we see large-scale deployment. ”
Simon Saunders in Genband backs large-scale femtocell rollouts
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CTIA wrap: Welcome to the 3G revival
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... first commercial deployments in the U.S. are just around the corner. In fact, earlier this year at Mobile World Congress, Europeans made a much bigger deal out of the first large-scale LTE deployments coming up in the U.... (Read Full Article)
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AT&T Takes MicroCells to Vegas
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...s Vegas to its trial markets for 3G femtocell products. Light Reading Mobile heard from a source at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona two weeks ago that Vegas would be the next big market to run live 3G "MicroCell" custo...
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Femtocells are getting bigger
Explore Article electronicsweekly.com (Feb 26 2010)
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Thank you for visiting Airvana at Mobile World Congress!
Explore Article Airvana Blog (Feb 23 2010)
...nk all the mobile operators, partners, suppliers, analysts and press who visited Airvana's stand at Mobile World Congress last week. Thanks to your support and participation, the show was a success for us. I hope that you... (Read Full Article)
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Orange, T-Mobile Go Slow on Femtos
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...E modem, RF and packet processors, protocol software, intelligent router ... Femtocells update from Mobile World Congress 2010 From The Register: Among a host of announcements, the leading silicon supplier for this segm...
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Femtocell Tech Set to Hit All UK Networks
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...the mains and into your home router via Ethernet and you're done. So what's the latest? Speaking at Mobile World Congress Professor Simon Saunders, chairman of the femtoforum - the official non-profit standards' body proc...
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Femtocell takeaways from Mobile World Congress | Opinion ...
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...ten by David Chambers Thursday, 18 February 2010 19:59 logo_mwc_10 The sun shone on the last day of Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, leaving a warm feeling on those who've worked (and played) hard throughout the week. ... (Read Full Article)
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AT&T Femtocell Service Launch Very Close
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Wireless Operators Facing Data Capacity Issues
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Mobile Offload: It's So Hot Right Now
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...more » Mobile Offload: It’s So Hot Right Now By Colin Gibbs Feb. 17, 2010, 5:00pm PST 2 Comments 0 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week has produced some eye-catching developments, from Microsoft’s unveiling of i...
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