Thursday, 13 Feb 2020 07:14 AM MYT
Bowing to the inevitable, the GSMA telecoms association that hosts the get-together said it had cancelled the February 24-27 event despite assurances from local and national health officials that it would have been safe to hold it. Spain's Telefonica, one of the biggest telecom operators not to have announced it was pulling out, said on Wednesday evening it “understands the GSMA's decision to cancel the Mobile World Congress 2020 due to the situation generated by coronavirus.”Barcelona's mayor, Ada Colau, said earlier she wanted to send a “message of calm,” insisting the city was ready to host the event, while Spanish health officials reiterated that there was no reason to call off MWC.
That failed, however, to alleviate concerns among major exhibitors that the precautions would be insufficient to halt the virus, which has spread beyond China's borders to two dozen countries. The Chinese contingent at MWC has numbered 5,000-6,000 in recent years, making the event particularly vulnerable given the outbreak of the virus that has killed more than 1,100 people on the Chinese mainland.
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