Facebook and Cisco will not attend Mobile World Congress due to coronavirus
The World GSM Association will decide whether to hold the Mobile World Congress, which is at risk with the cancellations of major technology companies, on Friday's meeting.
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Facebook and Cisco have also been added to companies that will not participate in the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, which alarmed the world and caused the outbreak of the new type of coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in China, which has killed more than a thousand people so far.
The future of MWC, to be held in Barcelona, Spain on 24-27 February, is at risk due to the coronavirus outbreak.
LG, Ericsson, Nvidia, Amazon, Sony, NTT Docomo, Gigaset, Umidigi, Intel and Vivo, Facebook and Cisco also announced that they will not join MWC for precautionary measures against the new type of coronavirus outbreak threatening public health on the grounds of "safety of employees and customers". was included.
The Spanish press also wrote that the leading companies in the sector such as Vodafone and Deutsche Telekom "seriously reviewed" their participation in MWC.
On the other hand, due to the cancellations, the MWC organizer, the World GSM Association (GSMA), was informed that it will decide whether the fair will be canceled by holding a meeting on Friday.
Meanwhile, Spanish Government Spokesperson and Finance Minister Maria Jesus Montero said that the MWC's very important fair for Spain "will be held under normal conditions".
Union representatives in Spain also called on companies to "act responsibly and remain calm" regarding the cancellation of MWC participation.
GSMA, which has announced some measures at MWC to date against the coronavirus epidemic, announced that those coming from the Hubey state of China will not be admitted to the fairground in Barcelona, and those who come from China have to show documents proving that they were not in Hubey until 14 days ago.
At the MWC, GSMA made the decision to change the microphone at each speaker in the conference rooms and made some recommendations to the participants against the coronavirus epidemic, such as "no greetings by shaking hands".
Barcelona, which has hosted more than 100 thousand professional participants from 200 countries, who have come to MWC since 2006, has more than 450 million Euros of economic income due to this event.
However, due to the decision of some big companies not to join MWC, statements are made that the cancellations have started in the hotels and the representatives of the tourism sector in the city are concerned about this.
Currently, there are 2 identified coronavirus cases in Spain, one in the southwestern Canary Islands and the other in the eastern Balearic Islands region.
While one of the two people who came to Spain after coming into contact with the people whose coronavirus cases were detected in Germany and France, one of them was German and the other one was a British citizen, both of them said to have good health. Follow me for all Cisco related feedback!