Whenever a series of companies reported their withdrawal from MWC 2020 this week, GSM Association, the organizers of the event has decided to cancel the technical occasion this year. MWC is the world’s largest mobile tech indicated of the year and its cancelation is a strong indication of the gravity of the ongoing coronavirus epidemic.
JUST IN: The 2020 Mobile World Congress has been canceled by GSMA because of #coronavirus fears.
In an emailed statement, John Hoffman, the CEO of GSMA, said the outbreak has made it "impossible" to hold the event #MWC2020 pic.twitter.com/PS1BqTCzU8
— QuickTake by Bloomberg (@QuickTake) February 12, 2020
This announcement doesn’t fairly come as a surprise given how primary technical giants like LG, MediaTek, Vivo, AT&T, Sony, and Amazon supported out of the occasion in the past couple of days. All Those companies expressed their concern for the safety of their employees as effectively like the attendees of the event this year.
Xiaomi, Realme, and Huawei had week ago confirmed their attendance at the occasion. Xiaomi and Realme moreover reported pre-MWC launch events for their gadgets. But with the occasion officially canceled, we’ll have to wait for an formal statement from these companies regarding their pre-MWC events.
In an emailed declaration to Bloomberg, John Hoffman, the CEO of GSMA, said the outbreak made it “impossible” to hold MWC 2020.
Over 1100 guys have died in China whenever contracting the covid-19 aka novel coronavirus and higher than 40,000 people have been infected so far. Those numbers are rising every day. WHO has already declared coronavirus like a global health emergency. And with a number of major MWC attendees withdrawing weeks before the occasion, the GSMA was left with with no choice however to cancel the tech prove this year.
