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MWC 2020 Cancelled for health reasons (GSMA statement on MWC barcelona 2020)

• river99 7y ago
  Probably a wise move considering many of the vendors are from China.
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• ilamont 7y ago
  This article had more of the backstory. Many European and North American companies had already cancelled, and MWC had apparently lobbied the Spanish government to declare a health emergency, which would make insurance claims easier. https://www.wired.co.uk/article/mobile-world-congress-cancelled https://www.wired.co.uk/article/mobile-world-congress-cancel...
• lotux 7y ago
  503 Service Temporarily Unavailable
  • nerdkid93 7y ago
    It surprises me that GSMA's site would go down like that
• dang 7y ago
  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22311618 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22311618 was posted a bit earlier
  • jbk 7y ago
    Sure, but GSMA is the official URL, not the Verge
    • dang 7y ago
      Yes, and the HN guidelines do call for posting original sources. However, press releases tend to contain less information than third-party articles that fill in details and give background. I was commenting about this elsewhere today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22311802 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22311802.
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