By Mathieu Rosemain
By Mathieu Rosemain
PARIS, Feb 11 (Reuters) – Telecoms foyer GSMA will maintain a board assembly on Friday to debate the potential cancellation of the Cellular World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona after a number of big-name withdrawals due to the coronavirus outbreak, an business supply mentioned on Tuesday.
MWC, scheduled to happen on Feb. 24-27, is the telecoms business’s largest annual gathering, with firms spending tens of millions on stands and hospitality to fill their order books.
The world occasion was put in jeopardy after the coronavirus outbreak, which has killed greater than 1,000 folks to date, largely in mainland China, prompted U.S. know-how and telecoms heavyweights similar to Cisco Programs Inc CSCO.O, Dash Corp S.N and Fb Inc FB.O to tug out.
A variety of firms starting from Japan’s NTT Docomo 9437.T and Sony Corp 6758.T to U.S. chipmakers Intel Corp INTC.O and Nvidia NVDA.O had already dropped out of the four-day worldwide telecoms convention that attracts in additional than 100,000 guests.
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