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GSMA schedules Mobile World Congress; to be held between Jun 28-Jul 1 2021
The world's biggest four-day telecom assembly Mobile World Congress has been scheduled to start from June 28, 2021, global industry body GSM Association said on Wednesday. The Mobile World Congress is held in the last week of February every year but this year, it was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and after telecom companies one after the other started pulling out of the annual conference following the outbreak of coronavirus. "MWC21 Shanghai will now take place from February 23-25, 2021, and MWC21 Barcelona will now take place between 28 June and July 1, 2021," GSMA said in a statement. It added that moving MWC21 Barcelona, initially scheduled for the first week of March 2021, allows GSMA to contend with external circumstances related to COVID-19. GSM Association has been organising the event annually since 2006 in Barcelona, Spain, where governments, ministers, policymakers, operators and industry leaders across the broader ecosystem discuss developments in the technolog
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Telecom sector seeks more clarity on spectrum road map at COAI webinar
Special panel discussion dwells on need for allocating 5G licences in 2021 target time frame, highlights importance of optimum spectrum use in times of Covid-19
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India to lead global growth of smartphone connections: GSMA
The estimates are based on the GSMA Intelligence Consumer Survey 2016 conducted across 56 countries
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GSMA wants govt to revisit 700 MHz spectrum band pricing
The debt-ridden telecom sector ignored premium airwaves in 700 MHz band at a reserve price of Rs 11,485 cr per MHz
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