Where’s Wally at the Mobile World Congress?

After attending to four intense days at the GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona last February, we could summarize what happened at the congress in two different ways. On one hand, we could glimpse the headlines in the front pages of the four issues of the official Show Daily:

However, a picture is worth a thousand words. Specially, the one I took the last day of the congress in a panel discussion devoted to “Services and Service Enablers for LTE”, where LTE stands for Long Term Evolution or 4G. In the panel were sitting representatives from the mobile industry value chain: an operator, a device manufacturer, a network equipment vendor, a standardization body and Google.  As one can see, Google and Apple (absent at the show) are the new “kids” on the block (mobile industry) and they are literally running the show!

LEADING THE TRANSFORMATION: From Connecting People to Connecting Life

THE OPERATORS: Avoiding being the “dumb” pipe

TRENDS: Connecting the unconnected

About Javier Zamora

Javier Zamora is currently senior lecturer in the Department of Information Systems. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University, and his M.Sc. in Telecommunications Engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. He holds also a PDG from IESE.

4 thoughts on “Where’s Wally at the Mobile World Congress?

  1. jzamora you in barcelona took some cool pictures of the show? Unfortunately this year was not there.

    Best greetings from germany

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  2. Nice article, I don’t really think Apple is “new” to the mobile business, but yeah Google and Apple are gonna control everything mobile wise with iOS and Android IMHO.

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