A continent’s petty thieves wait with baited breath
The GSMA has announced it has shortlisted six cities to host Mobile World Congress from 2013. A crack team of investigators will spend months checking out the quality of the bars, restaurants and hotel facilities (and simulating 50,000 people trying to get a free WiFi connection at the same time) in Amsterdam, Paris, Cologne, Munich, Barcelona and Paris.
After a rigourous process involving checking under the beds for dust in some over the most over-priced three star hotels in Europe, trying to find a working 3G signal inside a conference hall basement at 11am, and testing for the requisite curl and dryness in a €9 ham and cheese sandwich, the winning city will be announced.
Taxi touts, laptop thieves and laptop dancers in the winning city will be ecstatic as they face a five year windfall through to 2017.
But which city would you like to see win the vote? As ever, we at Mobile Europe are on hand to save the GSMA a lot of bother, and are running a poll in which literally some of you, our readers, will be voting.
So don’t miss out, have your say, and we’ll be sure to pass on the results to the GSMA’s grateful team. Vote now and vote often!
POSTSCRIPT:
A note to the cities involved. We’re very influential here at Mobile Europe, so if you have any, let’s say, particular aspect or facet of your City you think we could make the wider mobile audience aware of, then please do send tickets and hotel bookings information through to us. We’ll help you get your message heard. Especially you, Milan.