Mobile World Congress: Barcelona piles up again, good Paris “losing”

Mobile World Congress: Barcelona piles up again, good Paris “losing”

Christine de Gouvion Saint-Cyr military school Secrétaire general and Directrice of the candidature “ParisMobile World Capital” reconsiders the defeat of the capital.

Bad pickaxe. In spite of a solid file, Paris was not selected to organize the next editions of impossible to circumvent Mobile World Congress. It is Barcelona which again empoché the setting until 2018.

“To become the Capital of the Mobile World was strategic for Barcelona, and reinforces our leadership as a town of reference of new technologies” was pleased the mayor with Barcelona, Xavier Trias.

The municipality estimates that the Mobile World Congress represents more than 300 million euros of incomes over the only first year and of the thousands of part-time employment. The economic impact, in terms of receipts, is evaluated to 3,5 billion euros over 7 years by the town of Barcelona.

3,5 billion euros over 7 years

a basket which escapes Paris. But the capital is good losing. In a maintenance granted to our fellow-members of ServicesMobiles.fr, Christine de Gouvion Saint-Cyr military school Secretary general and Directrice of the candidature “Paris Mobile World Capital” reconsiders this defeat.

“I (us) am disappointed, but not bitter: Paris returned an excellent file as well on the infrastructures of the City, to accomodate the congress as on our industrial vision of the future of the mobile. The co-operation between the institutions (City, Area, State) was without fault, collaboration with industry and the poles of competitiveness was very justifying. I can only congratulate Barcelona to have gained “.

And to continue: “A the advertisement of the news, the GSMA confirmed at the City that Paris had produced a remarkable work and that the decision had been difficult to take. The quality of our file is due to the fact that we completed a true transverse team work, that the institutions implied themselves on high level and knew to collaborate without political problem, that their representatives provided an incredible work (dixit GSMA), and especially that Paris is a magic city and Mobile industry francilienne ultra dynamics.

In short we had a very good “product” (infrastructures and mobile), we knew to communicate, but Barcelona, knowing what it was likely to lose was very small not very the best “…. One will not know how…

For the continuation, Paris intends to prepare the next invitation to tender for the editions 2019 and following.