Mobile World Congress

MWC Barcelona
MWC Barcelona
	Entrance of MWC Barcelona 2019
Status	Active
Genre	Mobile communications
Date(s)	26 February – 29 February 2024
Venue	Fira de Barcelona Gran Via
Location(s)	Barcelona
Country	Spain
Inaugurated	1987 (as GSM World Congress)
Attendance	109,500 (2019)
Organised by	GSMA
Website	www.mwcbarcelona.com

MWC Barcelona (formerly but still commonly referred to as Mobile World Congress) is an annual trade show dedicated to the mobile communications industry.

The event is held in Barcelona, Spain, at the Fira de Barcelona Gran Via, usually in February or early March. It is attended primarily by device manufacturers, network equipment providers, representatives of wireless carriers, and the press, among others. Its annual attendance is generally around 100,000 people, while mobile phone manufacturers often use the conference to unveil upcoming devices.^[1]

The event is organised by the GSM Association (GSMA). GSMA has extended the MWC brand to three other trade shows in Shanghai, China (MWC Shanghai^[2]), Kigali, Rwanda (MWC Kigali, formerly MWC Africa) and Las Vegas, United States (MWC Las Vegas, formerly MWC Los Angeles), but the brand remains most synonymous with the Barcelona event.

^ Alleven, Monica (1 March 2018). "GSMA wraps 'hugely successful' MWC18 despite fewer attendees than expected". FierceWireless. Retrieved 30 July 2018.
^ "MWC Shanghai 2022 | Connectivity Unleashed". MWC Shanghai 2022 | Connectivity Unleashed. Retrieved 17 March 2022.

[1] Alleven, Monica (1 March 2018). "GSMA wraps 'hugely successful' MWC18 despite fewer attendees than expected". FierceWireless. Retrieved 30 July 2018.

[2] "MWC Shanghai 2022 | Connectivity Unleashed". MWC Shanghai 2022 | Connectivity Unleashed. Retrieved 17 March 2022.

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