• Sanidad.LG renounces MWC: "Everyone's security is fundamental"
  • In vilo.More than 6,500 Chinese professionals in the appointment

The Mobile World Congress (MWC) of Barcelona maintains its celebration at the end of February, although it continues to be reconfigured because of the coronavirus. The largest global telephony meeting will follow a policy of not shaking hands, as recommended by the organizer of this global event, the GSMA association. The cancellations already threaten the appointment : the South Korean company LG has suspended its participation and the Chinese firm ZTE has canceled one of its press conferences to present its latest mobile terminal products.

The GSMA has introduced other new protocols, for example for the change of microphone that the speakers will use. The Fira de Barcelona will reinforce its medical staff, host a preventive campaign and have health equipment available to all participants. The expected influx was estimated at 110,000 people, before this epidemic crisis broke out.

"This is frustrating, but we have to be cautious," Helena Mayoral, Marketing Manager of the Mobile division of LG Spain, explained to EL MUNDO: " Everyone's security is essential . At an international fair, so there are associated risks. ".

Companies like LG and HP have already retired from the forum, but the Chinese, some of the great protagonists of the event, avoid pronouncing themselves at the moment. Chinese President Xi Jinping has criticized this week international measures that would have only served to "create and spread fear." Hua Chunving, a spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, a spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Hua Chunying, has come to point to the US because, in his view, "he has not yet offered any substantial assistance to the Chinese side."

Huawei, the largest provider of telecommunications equipment in the world and one of the leading manufacturers in the sector, for now ensures that it will be present at the event. ZTE manifests itself in the same direction, although it has canceled its product presentation scheduled for February 25 .

The importance of China is fundamental in the Mobile, given the traditional absence of Apple, which avoids international meetings to launch its media presentations from the Calpertian headquarters in Cupertino.

Xiaomi, Oppo, the Taiwanese manufacturer of Foxconnn components ... the list of key telecommunications companies that are part of the Chinese geographical environment is very long. Of the 109,000 visitors of the 2019 Mobile edition, 6% came from the Asian giant, according to GSMA itself, a figure that would be above 6,500 professionals.

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