MWC would be boring if it was just a phone show
February 25, 2017 | Uncategorized
As the chills of February give way to the renewal of March, the mobile industry kicks off its year with the grand Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. In years past, this has been the launchpad for tons of smartphone innovation — so we keep hoping for more of the same — but in 2017 MWC is rather different.
The real change-makers in the mobile industry now are people like Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, who’ll be speaking in Barcelona on Monday, and new US FCC chief Ajit Pai, who’ll be talking up 5G on Tuesday. When Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg made a surprise appearance during Samsung’s MWC 2016 keynote, he stole the show, and with good reason. The decisions made by US and European regulators (the European Commission’s Andrus Ansip is…
