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MWC is pleading with Barcelona to let it cancel its own event
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/mobile-world-congress-cancelledMWC is pleading with Barcelona to let it cancel its own event
Natasha Bernal
Wednesday 12 February 2020
Mobile World Congress (MWC) organiser the GSMA is lobbying the Spanish government to declare a health emergency that would allow it to cancel the biggest phone show in the world, WIRED understands.
Sources close to the GSMA said negotiations to cancel the event have hit a roadblock, and the organisation will not be able to claim back insurance on MWC if Catalonian authorities do not block the event from happening.
The GSMA was forced to issue a decision on whether to cancel the event as early as Wednesday after an emergency meeting scheduled for 13:00 GMT, as mass drop-outs from companies concerned about the spread of coronavirus.
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WIRED understands that the GSMA no longer wants to go ahead with MWC after companies including Facebook, Amazon, LG, Intel, Ericsson, Vivo, ZTE, Nvidia, Cisco, Sony, HMD, and Volvo dropped out. Orange, Vodafone, Deutsche Telekom, McAfee, BT and HMD Global, which makes Nokia-branded phones, cancelled on Wednesday.
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