Mobile World Congress 2026 (MWC26) came and went without an outburst of anti-Huawei rhetoric from Washington, DC, as the US government was busy repivoting from its obsession with China to its old standby: war in the Middle East.
But Huawei, Nokia, Ericsson, mobile telecom operators and hundreds of other companies were in Barcelona, Spain, promoting their newest telecom technology in the era of artifical intelligence (AI).
Held March 2-5, the 20th annual MWC event attracted nearly 105,000 attendees from 207 nations and territories, about 2,900 exhibitors, around 1,700 speakers and more than 1.3 million views of keynote addresses and other presentations on the MWC Barcelona website and social media.