Mobile World Congress Media Centre

Whether you are a journalist attending the Mobile World Congress or covering the event from afar, you'll find important news, background information, multimedia and other materials from the GSMA and exhibiting companies here in the Media Centre.

Press Conference 16 and 17th February

Mobile World Congress Press Releases

16 February
GSMA Announces Winners of the 15th Annual Global Mobile Awards
The GSMA announced the winners of the coveted Global Mobile Awards at the 2010 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona

16 February
GSMA and the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women Publish ‘Women & Mobile: A Global Opportunity’ Report
Closing the mobile phone 'gender gap' represents a US$13 billion incremental, annual revenue opportunity for mobile operators worldwide

16 February
Her Majesty Queen Rania of Jordan and the GSMA Announce ‘1GOAL: Education for All’ Mobile Campaign at the Mobile World Congress
Her Majesty, Queen Rania Al Abdullah of Jordan joined the GSMA today to announce the 1GOAL: Education for All mobile campaign, the world’s largest cause-related campaign ever undertaken.

16 February
Kenya Wins GSMA Government Leadership Award for Progressive Mobile Broadband Strategy
The GSMA, which represents the interests of the worldwide mobile communications industry, today presented His Excellency Mr. Samuel Poghisio, Minister for Information and Communications for

15 February 2010
China Telecom, KDDI and Verizon Wireless Join the GSMA as Mobile Operators around the World Commit to LTE
Qualcomm joins as associate member, aiding the smooth integration of LTE with today’s widely deployed Mobile Broadband technologies...

15 February 2010
GSMA Outlines Potential for Embedded Mobile: Enabling a World of Connected Devices
GSMA publishes industry guidelines for connected devices; establishes partnership with Continua Health Alliance to grow global mHealth ecosystem...

15 February 2010
GSMA Leads Mobile Industry Towards a Single, Global Solution for Voice over LTE
More than 40 leading mobile industry organisations back GSMA’s VoLTE initiative...

15 February 2010
OneAPI Gains Momentum as GSMA Announces Commercial Pilot with Leading Mobile Operators in Canada
The GSMA announced the launch of a commercial pilot in Canada as part of its OneAPI* initiative, working with the country's leading mobile operators Bell Mobility, Rogers Communications and TELUS

15 February 2010
Mobile Contactless Payments Trialled Live at Mobile World Congress 2010
GSMA, Samsung, Telefónica and Visa, with Giesecke & Devrient, Ingenico, ITN International and La Caixa, collaborate across industries to give Congress attendees an opportunity to

15 February 2010
Next-Generation Multimedia Services Set to Become a Reality as GSMA Outlines Progress with RCS Initiative
Leading operators in Japan launch RCS pilot; winners of GSMA's RCS DevChallenge competition revealed

15 February 2010
Leading Operators Unite to Unleash Global Apps Potential
Wholesale Applications Community to push apps market to over 3 billion customers with strong support by world-leading device manufacturers

28 January 2010
GSMA Announces New Developments for App Planet at 2010 Mobile World Congress
The GSMA announced that Google and Motorola will each hold application developer conferences (ADC) within App Planet, bringing the total number of individual ADCs at Mobile World Congress to six.

20 January 2010
GSMA announces nominees for the 15th Annual Global Mobile Awards
The winners will be announced and recognised during the Global Mobile Awards presentation on Tuesday 16th February at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

14 January 2010
GSMA Announces Additional Keynote Speakers for 2010 Mobile World Congress
The GSMA announces additional keynote speakers who will be presenting at the 2010 Mobile World Congress, which will be held 15-18 February, 2010 in Barcelona.

28 Oct 2009
GSMA Announces Keynote Speakers for 2010 Mobile World Congress
The GSMA announced that the CEOs of the world’s leading communications companies, including Alcatel-Lucent, China Unicom, Ericsson, Google, Huawei, KDDI, Telefónica and Vodafone...

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