Mobile World Congress event starts next week
Ralf Haller
February 13th, 2009
The mobile industry is on its way to its largest event worldwide: the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
I expect that there, too, fewer exhibitors and far fewer visitors will attend. As the event has been overcrowded over the last few years, it could turn out to be a pleasant experience — although exhibitors of course won’t like it at all, not to mention the organizesr.
We plan to be there and also to record a video that we will post then onto this blog and onto our Product Marketing reference work website.
If you take a look at the exhibitor list, you will see how many companies are attending per country. I did a little counting; question is if there is a correlation between the number of companies from a country and how big wireless is in these countries — relative to their size, of course. I think it does to some extent correlate with the activities undertaken, although it does not say anything about how successful these are; for that I would have to also add up revenues. Some other observations: Spain of course has so many companies attending because the event is hosted in Barcelona, Spain. China has only a few, but two very big ones with Huawei and ZTE. France, Ireland and Israel are heavily supporting startups, so they have many small ones. The low attendance rate from Japan maybe reflects the economic situation there.
