Although the organizers continue to ensure that a physical MWC is held in Barcelona, the constant net of important absences increasingly calls into question this celebrationnot. Ericsson, Sony, Nokia, Samsung … And now also Xiaomi: one of the main Android manufacturers has confirmed that it will only perform virtual acts.
We are one month away from the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, a must-attend event for the entire telephony industry which, paradoxically, had to be canceled last year and delayed to 2021. We all know why: It is not safe to organize a massive congress with the pandemic endangering all social activity
Xiaomi will only hold virtual events during MWC 2021
Current appearance of Fira exteriors one month after the MWC 2021 The Chinese brand is yet another in the already long list of major cancellations. As confirmed by the company itself, Xiaomi will not attend MWC 2021 in person in Barcelona, but that does not mean that he will be doing presentations online and via video conference. All in order to guarantee the safety of the assistants and also of the workers.
Then we leave you with the official statement from Xiaomi detailing the reason for the physical cancellation of MWC 2021:
“With the aim of ensuring the health and safety of all its employees, customers, partners and media, Xiaomi has decided to participate only virtually in MWC 2021. Despite the very complicated situation in which we live, the company will continue to strengthen its presence and actively collaborate with the entire industry to support the global tech community
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Although the list of cancellations is long the GSMA, Fira and the rest of the organizers continue with the World Telephony Congress. However, doubts weigh more and more insistently, especially after going to the pavilions where the MWC 2021 is expected to be held: we visited it last weekend and we did not see any movement, nor to the exterior or in the interior pavilions. In other years, almost everything was put together a month after the start.
This is what the interior of the Fira pavilions looks like a month after the start of MWC 2021 We’ll see if the GSMA finally manages to bring MWC 2021 to a successful conclusion, and if it manages to attract enough professional audiences to make its celebration a success. Let us also remember that everyone will be able to attend the congress with popular tickets.
