The coronavirus is a leading figure of world news in recent weeks. This virus born in Wuhan (China) has already caused more than 900 deaths and more than 40,000 infected worldwide. Faced with the dangerous spread of it worldwide, increasingly Technology companies decide not to attend the Mobile World Congress 2020 as a preventative measure.
Although the organization's WWC 2020, to be held from February 24 to 27 in Barcelona, has confirmed ways to prevent coronavirus, companies are skeptical and would like to protect the virus by withdrawing its presence at the event with the biggest mobile technology of the year We collect all products that are not up to MWC 2020, the growing list of names has many members.
LG
The first product to announce that it would not attend this year's Mobile World Congress meeting was LG's Korea. On February 5, when about three weeks before the start of the conference, the company stepped forward and made public that MWC 2020 would be lost. protect the health of your employees, partners and customers.
In a statement on Twitter, LG has announced that it has chosen to limit its workers' travel restriction as a country that is a preventative measure for coronavirus, a decision that completely affected their presence at the international conference. In this way, LG also canceled all events and presentations
Nokia
When ZTE decided to cancel its conference at the Mobile World Congress, but continued its stand, Nokia announced that it would not attend the mobile technology conference from security The lives of its employees, clients and partners have not yet been paid.
In a statement published on February 7, Börje Ekholm, president and CEO of Sony, said this was not a decision that the company should have taken for granted, because "Concerns" is the latest show in front of the public
Nokia withdraws from MWC Barcelona 2020 https://t.co/rujlbTGdLk
– Press Press (@Eindowspress) February 7, 2020
"It is unfortunate, but we strongly believe that the decision of the most responsible business is to withdraw our participation in this year's event.", concluded the host. To reduce injury, Nokia presented all content prepared by MWC 2020 to customers at their local markets in an event called "Nokia Unboxed".
Nvidia
February 7 was the day Nvidia was chosen to announce that she would not go to the MWC in Barcelona for fear of a coronavirus. “Given the risk to public health around the coronavirus, our biggest concern is ensure the safety of our partners, partners and customers", the company explained on her blog.
Though Nvidia had thought to present all your Artificial Intelligence, 5G and vRAN related architecture, They believe that the best decision is to not attend the conference because of the obvious danger caused by the coronavirus.
Amazon
The world's fourth largest technology company announced its withdrawal from the Mobile World Congress 2020 by Amazon on February 9. "Due to the outbreak and ongoing concerns about the new coronavirus, Amazon will retire from presenting and participating in the Mobile World Congress 2020,
MIDNIGHT
Though less well-known than previous companies, the Chinese affiliate company UMIDIGI is also It is "deleted" from Mobile World Congress 2020 as a preventative measure before coronavirus. This was announced on Monday with the following message on Twitter: "At UMIDIGI we choose to keep our employees working in a safe and commerce environment, to respect all other people around the world.".
At UMIDIGI we like to keep our employees working in a safe and isolated environment, to honor all other people in our world. 🌏
Our company decided #returned this year's event # MWC2020 #MWC #coronavirus Barcelona.👍
Please stay safe 🇨🇳– MEDIUM (@umidigi) February 10, 2020
Sony
The most important cancellation of those announced so far has been the one confirmed by Sony on Monday. The Japanese company has confirmed that it is closely following the evolution of the coronavirus and, given the risk of participating in this year's Mobile Worls Congress, it has decided that not going to protect the lives of "customers, partners, media and employees".
Not participating It doesn't mean we won't know your new products,
NTT DoCoMo
The last product that has been canceled for its existence in the Mobile World Congress 2020 as a result of the coronavirus has been NTT DoCoMo -Nippon Telegraph and Commerce Corporation-, the largest manufacturer of wireless networks in Japan. According to Reuters, the company explained in a statement that resigns from overseas conference "After looking at the safety of its customers, partners and employees".
NTT DoCoMo is the last company to join a retraction organization founded by LG on February 5, and already has big names like Sony & # 39; s. Seeing the difficult situation that MWC 2020 passes these days, it is widely expected that many species are those that cancel their presence in the next few hours as a coronavirus vaccine.
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