Mobile World Congress, Day 2: Busy in Barcelona

Posted: February 15th, 2011 | Author: Olivier Suard | Filed under: Events | Tags: , , , , , | 3 Comments »

We’re only half way into this year’s Mobile World Congress, but like I mentioned yesterday, this is the GSMA’s—and Comptel’s—busiest conference yet! Our booth’s three meeting rooms were completely booked up, and there was significant overflow into our general lounge area throughout the day.

Although most of Comptelians’ time was spent at the booth, we were able to participate in a couple of other networking activities around the Fira Barcelona and city. CALA vice president Diego Becker sat down for a few minutes to record a video interview with TeleSemana. In the following Spanish language clip, he discusses our commissioned research showing that consumers are willing to pay extra for a higher quality of experience (QoE) and greater service personalization, as well as how policy control is becoming essential for communications service providers to offer differentiated, convergent broadband services and guarantee that QoE.

And this evening, I attended Light Reading’s Meet the Editors & Analysts ‘Speed Dating’ reception at Gran Foc. It was nice to catch up with old friends from Heavy Reading like Ari Banerjee and Graham Finnie, and meet others from across the OSS and greater telco industry.

Overall, we have been very pleased with the high attendance in Barcelona as well as the productive meetings being conducted with customers, prospects, partners, media and industry analysts. Don’t forget to come visit us in Hall 1 at Stand #1C06 if you have not done so already!