Around 60,000 visitors congregated at Mobile World Congress 2011

GSMA has reported that the Mobile World Congress 2011 has drawn around 60,000 visitors including delegates, exhibitors, contractors and media from 200 countries, marking a record for the mobile industry's premier event. The four-day conference and exhibition attracted executives from the world's largest and most influential mobile operators, software companies, equipment providers, Internet companies and media and entertainment organisations, as well as government delegations. 51 per cent of this year's Mobile World Congress attendees hold C-level positions, including more than 3,000 CEOs.

The 2011 Congress hosted nearly 1,400 exhibiting companies and occupied more than 58,600 net square metres of exhibition and business meeting space. More than 2,900 international print, Web and broadcast media attended the event to analyse and report on the many significant industry announcements made at the Congress.

During the event the trends and issues of mobile industry was discussed The conference also covered a range of topics such as applications, mobile advertising, mobile money, mobile health, embedded mobile, cloud computing, network capacity and next-generation network technologies, among many others. CEOs from companies including America Movil, AT&T, China Mobile, Cisco Systems, Ericsson, Google, HTC, Intel, Microsoft, Nokia, NTT DoCoMo, Qualcomm, Research In Motion (RIM), SoftBank, Telefonica, Twitter, Vodafone, Wholesale Applications Community (WAC), WPP and Yahoo! participated.

The GSMA captivated government delegations from 131 countries in Barcelona, there was an increase of 50 percent over 2010. The GSMA's Ministerial Programme was an exclusive session at the event for ministers, regulators and CEOs from across the mobile industry for a series of in-depth strategic, policy and regulatory discussions in high-level summits and bilateral meetings. Next year, 2012 the Mobile World Congress will be held between 27th February and 1st March, 2012 in Barcelona.