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Comment on Looking Forward to a Different Mobile World Congress Experience in Barcelona by blog.synchronoss.com » Notes From The Mobile World Congress – Barcelona

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:03:02 +0000

[...] we had said leading into this event, we were excited about some of the changes that we were seeing in the way that this 2010 MWC was [...]

Comment on It’s a Brave New World for Connected Devices by blog.synchronoss.com » Notes From The Mobile World Congress – Barcelona

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:57:09 +0000

[...] Indeed the GSMA content team played a big role in providing this result by exposing issues, frictions and opportunities created from an ecosystem that is transitioning from connectivity to device centricity. It was inspiring to see both CSPs (i.e.: Glen Lurie from AT&T and Vittorio Colao from Vodafone) and OEMs (i.e.: Ray Roman from DELL, Eric Schmidt from Google) lay out their different strategies to win in this brave new world. [...]

Comment on Looking Forward to a Different Mobile World Congress Experience in Barcelona by Ken

Ken — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:25:13 +0000

Regarding Embedded Mobile, there was a dedicated seminar at MWC-2009 to launch the GSMA’s strategy in this area. There is a report on the topic on the GSMA’s Embedded Mobile web portal.

Comment on Looking Forward to a Different Mobile World Congress Experience in Barcelona by Francisco Kattan

Francisco Kattan — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 05:22:43 +0000

Nice and timely post Omar. It will be interesting to see how MWC evolves as the ecosystem opens up and operators become less influential in the ecosystem. Google’s presence is indeed a sign of the times, as you indicated. I’d like to highlight two other changes:

Nokia’s Absence

Nokia’s absence from the exhibits will certainly be felt in Hall 8 where they traditionally had a very visible presence. It’s evident that Nokia no longer sees the operators as a key channel to market so this move makes sense for them. As Nokia markets directly to consumers, CES becomes more relevant than MWC to them.

Developer Focus and App Planet

With so many other distribution channels available to developers (the non-operator app stores), GSMA is attempting to retain developer interest at this event. The rebranding of Hall 7 as App Planet and the related marketing campaign appear to be working. It will be interesting to what how developer interest in this event evolves in years to come.

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