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Stands for: Mobile World Congress - the GSMA's Barcelona telecom mega-show

Mobile World Congress - the GSMA's Barcelona mega-show where the telecom industry announces its year: handsets, networks, and roughly a hundred thousand badge-wearers.

Descended from the GSM World Congress of the 1990s and its 3GSM years in Cannes, the event moved to Barcelona in 2006, took the MWC name, and became the industry's calendar anchor at the Fira Gran Via: phone launches for the headlines, but the real business in the halls where operators, equipment vendors, and now cloud and chip companies negotiate the next generation - each G's hype cycle has premiered here. Satellite editions extend the brand, and for anyone in ISP or carrier work, MWC week is when the roadmaps that will land in your network get announced to everyone at once.

Also known as: mwc, mobile world congress, 3gsm, fira

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