Making a new record of visitors, the 19th Mobile World Congress concluded in the Spanish city of Barcelona yesterday.
The four-day telecom trade show began on Monday, which saw over 80,000 visitors against 72,000 last year. The GSM mobile operators now plan to draw 1bn customer s by 2020.
GSMA director general Anne Bouverot and Telenor Group president Jon Fredrick Baksaas also shared their plans in different forums.
Telenor has the lion’s share in Bangladesh’s largest mobile operator Grameenphone.
The organisers described the even as most successful so far, where a huge number of new technological innovations were demonstrated along with the signing of lots of business deals and holding of policy dialogue.
The mobile operators, vendors and the over-the-top (OTT) content operators like Facebook, twitter, WhatsApp tried to find out some solutions and new business models.
Vivek Sood, CEO of Grameenphone, said this would be a great achievement for both the parties that “everybody feel to find out a solution.”
“Two years back there was conflict between the mobile operators and the OTT operators, but this time I found some new way forward by both the parties,” Vivek Sood told the Dhaka Tribune sitting in the Telenor pavilion.
He said the revenue could be shared by both the OTT and mobile phone operators, “and we can find out some solution about it.”
But earlier the top leaders of the mobile operators expressed their concerns over the OTT operators. Some said it would create “enormous threat” for them.
Mark Zuckerberg, the father of the Facebook, was the star of the mobile world congress on the very first day of the trade show.
Zuckerberg said he had a plan to deliver internet access to 5bn people across the world within a short time. Before the announcement of the plan, Facebook bought WhatsApp at $19bn becoming talk of the even.
GSM Association claimed on Wednesday evening that the total participation crossed 80,000, making a new record.
