A fortnight from the MWC in Barcelona, the fear of the coronavirus is leading more and more manufacturers, such as LG and ZTE, to cancel their conferences, or even to impose upstream a quarantine on their emissaries, like Huawei.
Are we headed for a Mobile World Congress deserted by its Asian representatives? While the Barcelona fair is due to open on February 24, the coronavirus epidemic currently raging in China has clouded the prelude to the event. Indeed, some manufacturers have decided to cancel their conferences and even to simply withdraw from the Spanish meeting.
So the South Korean giant LG, through a press release, announced that his teams would not be present in Barcelona: “Given the safety of its employees, partners and customers, LG has decided to withdraw from the exhibition and participation in MWC 2020 later this month in Barcelona”. To compensate for this absence, the Seoul firm will organize several events during 2020 to present its new products.