OnNovel Coronavirus OutbreakUnder the influence, Amazon also announced earlier that its cloud computing business unit AWS will withdraw from participating in MWC 2020 to prevent the epidemic from affecting the health and safety of its own employees and exhibitors.
AWS originally planned to showcase its cloud application services and technical solutions for the advent of 5G networks during the exhibition, but due to the impact of the new coronavirus epidemic, it decided to cancel the event.
In addition to AWS, companies including LG, Ericsson, and NVIDIA have earlier confirmed that they will cancel their participation in MWC 2020. ZTE's originally scheduled pre-show press conference has also been canceled, but it will still participate in the exhibition. Chinese brands including Huawei, Xiaomi, and OPPO have not yet canceled their exhibition plans, but have begun to require employees who assist in participating in the exhibition to self-isolate first to ensure that they are not infected. They are also asking employees in Europe to assist with exhibition activities.
Due to the impact of the epidemic, many companies have begun to consider whether to continue participating in MWC 2020. For example, there are reports that Samsung may decide to cancel the event, not only to ensure the health and safety of employees and exhibitors, but also to prevent important company executives from being infected.
