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Bandwidth Blog & Smile 90.4FM Tech Tuesday: MWC 2020 Cancelled

A worker fixes a poster announcing the Mobile World Congress 2020 in a conference venue in Barcelona, Spain, Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2020. Intel Mobile is the latest company announcing that is pulling out of the Mobile World Congress scheduled to be held in Barcelona in late February. Authorities still seem to be committed to hold it, meeting foreign diplomats on Tuesday to brief on the efforts to prevent any spread of the new coronavirus virus during the industry show. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

The GSMA, the organisation that puts on Mobile World Congress every year, said it is cancelling the MWC 2020 over coronavirus concerns. It was scheduled to run from February 24th until February 27th.

In this week’s Tech Tuesday segment on Smile 90.4FM we talk about the implications of the MWC being cancelled for the tech community and consumers alike. Listen down below:

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