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Our coverage wasn’t all that great, but we did key on some of the bigger news out of MWC. Barcelona is a pretty far haul for someone that does this as a hobby, so we weren’t able to attend. There was some great coverage at Engadget and some other sites though. We’ll be at CTIA in March though.

The reason for this post is to share some info I got over at IntoMobile about MWC. Just how big of an event is MWC? The GSMA released numbers related to MWC yesterday…

• More than 47,000 visitors from 189 countries attended the 2009 GSMA Mobile World Congress.
• 50% of all the attendees hold C-level positions, including more than 2,800 CEOs.
• 1,300 companies exhibited at the event, occupying more than 57,000 square metres of exhibition and hospitality space — a footprint 11% larger than that of the previous year. (recession anyone?)
• Nearly 2,400 international print, web and broadcast media attended the event.

When looking at the big Mobile Picture, something that many in the US forget, including myself, is how small of a market the US. We want to feel like it’s all ours to enjoy, but there are larger markets out there.

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