What to expect from Mobile World Congress in Barcelona: participating companies and changes that the 2023 edition brings

25 Feb. (Portaltic/EP) –

Mobile World Congress (MWC) returns to Barcelona for another year, where it will host the latest developments in the mobility sector between February 27 and March 2, with the addition of the 4 Years From Now (4YFN) congress to the main venue.

This year’s edition will be held in the Gran Via venue of Fira de Barcelona, located in L’Hospitalet de Llobregat (Barcelona), and will feature more than 1,000 speakers and 2,000 exhibitors and sponsors, including Dow Jones, Accenture, Microsoft and Huawei. The latter, moreover, will be the exhibitor that will occupy the most space in the congress, 50 percent more than in previous years.

This meeting has as a novelty the incorporation of the congress for emerging companies 4YFN, which in previous editions was held in the Montjuïc venue and this year will occupy the hall 8.1 of Gran Via.

Under the motto ‘Velocity. Unleashing Tomorrow’s technology today’, (‘Speed. Unleashing tomorrow’s technology today’), MWC 2023 will be the stage where the main companies in the technology and telecommunications sector will share their innovations in mobility, network and sustainability technologies.

Presentations will take place from Saturday February 25, with passes for the press and live broadcasts, two days before the official opening of the fair. It is the case of HMDwhich will share the latest news from Nokia phone brand this day.

He sunday february 26 it is the turn of Xiaomi, which will present the series of ‘smartphones’ globally Xiaomi 13 and the Xiaomi Watch S1 Pro watch. It will also have a TCL presentation, in which it will announce more members of its family of ‘smartphones’ TCL40Series, As already announced in January at CES 2023.

The first official day of MWC 2023, the monday february 27the new ‘smartphones’ will be known Magic 5 and Honor MagicVs, innovations in connectivity ZTEthe new cybersecurity solutions and the Cyber ​​Immunity ecosystem of Kaspersky.

He Tuesday 28, Nokia will hold a ‘keynote’ on ‘The exponential potential of networks’, led by the president and CEO of the company, Pekka Lundmark. This day he will really introduce me to his new flagship, realme GT3and ZTE its new mobile devices, among which is the Nubia Pad 3D tablet.

He March 1st, penultimate day of the fair, it is the turn of sonywhich will present the family of televisions Bravia XR.

Outside of the presentations with the date and time, the technology firms will have their respective ‘stands’, where they will show the attendees its most recent novelties, in exhibitors and with demonstrations. This is the case of OnePlus, which has already anticipated that it will take the smartphone that it has named OnePlus 11 Concept to MWC 2023. Also from Oppo, which will show the OPPO Air Glass 2 Assisted Reality glasses that it announced in December, and from Bullitt Group, which will bring its new devices for satellite communication to Barcelona.

In the case of telecommunications companies, vodafone will perform 19 technology demos at the show for digital products and services that help accelerate the green transition, including an Extreme E electric SUV and a real drone that flies in the metaverse. It will also show a construction site signaling cone with geolocation developed together with Grupo Erum.

telephonefor its part, will have demos focused on the conversion of networks into interoperable platforms, smart agriculture, its holographic telepresence system, the metaverse and industry 4.0.

Cellnex will present his industrial model ‘Augmented Towerco’ which extends to the sharing of active equipment (RAN sharing) and will show the assets adjacent to the tower with concrete examples of the deployment of neutral infrastructures.

While Orange will allow Immersive Now users to visit a virtual reproduction of his ‘stand’ to see the demos in it and access the 360 ​​camera located in the venue that will broadcast live what happens in this great technological event. He will also share a use case for 5G technology in the metaverse.