Mobile World Congress 2023: From 6G to the metaverse, here’s what to expect at this year’s event

The biggest mobile and telecommunications conference in Europe is back.
Mobile World Congress (MWC) kicks off on Monday, when the most powerful decision makers in tech will descend on Barcelona alongside more than 75,000 other attendees.
Here’s a look at what to expect from this year’s conference, and how it impacts the city of Barcelona.
5G advances - but 6G is also on the agenda5G will be one of the main themes of the conference, with the fifth generation of mobile network already bringing more data - more quickly - to millions of devices around Europe.
It has spurred improvements in virtual reality and the metaverse already, and its increased bandwidth has proven important to a vast array of sectors from tech to medical.
And although 5G is still developing and new technologies built on top of it, eyes will also be on its successor at MWC.
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Expanding the metaverseCompanies will be showcasing their early ventures into the metaverse, which are slowly but surely changing the way we live, work, and play.
MWC bills the metaverse as a way in which the customer experience will be “completely transformed” in the next five years.
Among the topics that will be explored and showcased at this year’s event will be how the metaverse can transform education, immersive technologies, and whether it is the future, a fad, or a fraud.

“The focus is going to be on combining physical and virtual reality, and how that’s applied to some concrete solutions for people,” Miquel Martí, CEO at Tech Barcelona, a private non-profit association supporting Barcelona’s digital and technological ecosystem, told Euronews Next.
While the event is dominated by big name tech and telecoms companies, the part that is more interesting for Martí’s organisation is the Four Years From Now (4YFN) start-up fringe event within MWC.
It showcases the latest start-ups that are tipped to make a big impact in the world of technology, with one of them being crowned the 2023 winner of the 4YFN Awards at a show during the conference.

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