{"id":61894,"date":"2020-02-13T12:10:43","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T04:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=61894"},"modified":"2020-02-13T13:15:36","modified_gmt":"2020-02-13T05:15:36","slug":"spain-world-mobile-congress-cancelled-over-covid-19-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=61894","title":{"rendered":"Spain: World Mobile Congress cancelled over Covid-19 fears"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cnet2.cbsistatic.com\/img\/v5nL1ShAa7Z9RyUBNsDjYw_YYE0=\/1092x0\/2020\/02\/07\/d4c12449-967d-4ad2-8258-689cbbb51ec9\/gettyimages-1128093546.jpg\" alt=\"gettyimages-1128093546\"\/><figcaption>Mobile World Congress, held each year in Barcelona, brings together the world&#8217;s biggest wireless companies<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>MADRID, Feb 13 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212;\u00a0Organisers of the World Mobile Congress said they have cancelled the world&#8217;s top mobile trade fair due to fears stemming from the coronavirus Covid-19, following an exodus of industry heavyweights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The mobile fair is one of the biggest events worldwide to be cancelled so far owing to the virus that has killed more than 1,300 people to date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The announcement came after the GSMA, the mobile trade association that organises the annual show, held a meeting to decide the fate of the event that had been planned to run in Barcelona on Feb\u00a024-27.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The GSMA has cancelled MWC Barcelona 2020 because the global concern regarding the coronavirus outbreak, travel concern and other circumstances, make it impossible for the GSMA to hold the event,&#8221; a statement said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It said the decision was made with &#8220;due regard to the safe and healthy environment in Barcelona and the host country,&#8221; adding that host city parties understood the cancellation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just hours before the meeting took place, Vodafone, Nokia, Deutsche Telekom, Britain&#8217;s BT and Rakuten of Japan had pulled out, following in the footsteps of Intel, Facebook, Cisco and China&#8217;s Vivo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The annual Barcelona-based congress normally draws more than 100,000 people, including between 5,000 and 6,000 participants from China, organisers say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The decision is certain to be a major blow for Barcelona, as the huge trade show was forecast to bring in almost 500 million euros, organisers said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The cancellations began on Feb\u00a04 when South Korea&#8217;s LG Electronics, which occupies one of the largest spaces at the show, said it was pulling out to &#8220;remove the risk of exposing hundreds of LG employees to international travel &#8230; as the virus continues to spread across borders&#8221;. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MADRID, Feb 13 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212;\u00a0Organisers of the World Mobile Congress said they have cancelled the world&#8217;s top mobile trade fair due to fears stemming from the coronavirus Covid-19, following an exodus of industry heavyweights. The mobile fair is one of the biggest events worldwide to be cancelled so far owing to the virus that has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,209],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61894"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}