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Re:MWC 2020 Cancelled for health reasons (GSMA statement on ... by ilamont on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @03:25PM (#22312438)
This article had more of the backstory. Many European and North American companies had already cancelled, and MWC had apparently lobbied the Spanish government to declare a health emergency, which would make insurance claims easier.

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/mobile-world-congress-cancel...

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Re:MWC 2020 Cancelled for health reasons (GSMA statement on ... by river99 on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @02:54PM (#22312161)
Probably a wise move considering many of the vendors are from China.
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Re:MWC 2020 Cancelled for health reasons (GSMA statement on ... by lotux on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @03:29PM (#22312481)
503 Service Temporarily Unavailable
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Re:MWC 2020 Cancelled for health reasons (GSMA statement on ... by nerdkid93 on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @03:37PM (#22312547)
It surprises me that GSMA's site would go down like that
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Re:MWC 2020 Cancelled for health reasons (GSMA statement on ... by dang on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @03:37PM (#22312554)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22311618 was posted a bit earlier
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Re:MWC 2020 Cancelled for health reasons (GSMA statement on ... by jbk on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @03:50PM (#22312659)
Sure, but GSMA is the official URL, not the Verge
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Re:MWC 2020 Cancelled for health reasons (GSMA statement on ... by dang on Thursday February 13, 2020 @01:23AM (#22315725)
Yes, and the HN guidelines do call for posting original sources. However, press releases tend to contain less information than third-party articles that fill in details and give background. I was commenting about this elsewhere today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22311802.
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