each year in Barcelona producers in the smart phone market gather together in a technological fair of sorts. Each business tries to get as numerous eyeballs on their upcoming gadgets as well as projects. This bit fair is called the Mobile world Congress or MWC.  Amid the fears of the Coronavirus break out in China, however, MWC 2020 has been officially canceled.

This is significant news, at least for the smart phone industry, although it shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone. a number of names, huge as well as little had already revealed they wouldn’t be going to the MWC. The listing of phone producers that either dropped out of the show totally or canceled their presentations include LG, Sony, TCL, ZTE, Vivo, HMD Global, as well as numerous others.

With the MWC 2020 set to occur in two weeks, the snowballing impact would get even worse as well as numerous others would’ve pulled out as well. All of these business have mentioned the prospective health and wellness dangers to countless workers as well as guests as the reason.

GSMA has officially canceled MWC 2020

Considering all of that, as well as citing the coronavirus fears as a reason, the GSMA has officially canceled the Mobile world Congress 2020. For the uninitiated, GSMA is the organization that holds the MWC in Barcelona extremely year. The CEO of GSMA, John Hoffman, told Bloomberg in an email that the coronavirus break out has made it “impossible” to hold the MWC 2020 event. Spanish outlet La Vanguardia has likewise separately reported the exact same news.

The Mobile world Congress is a significant event every year went to by numerous countless people from around the world. business pour millions of dollars in preparation, in purchase to stand out, make the very best presentations of their finest products. The cancellation of the even will definitely be a significant strike to the market as a whole. particularly thinking about that we were expecting a number of essential smartphone introduces from the stage at MWC this year. HMD worldwide (Nokia), Huawei (& Honor), LG, Motorola, OPPO (& Realme), Sony, TCL, Vivo, Xiaomi, as well as ZTE were all set to introduce new products.

Xiaomi will already be introducing its Mi 10 series in an online-only event today. Similarly, the other producers will likewise introduce their products at some point. It just won’t be at the MWC where they would have the interest of countless journalists as well as publications.