I like Barcelona! I have been here many times and I really love it. It has the specific behaviour of a Mediterranean sea city. Eating a bocadillos and drinking a glass of Roja at the Boqueria market is what Mediterranean life is about! And the mobile industry enjoys this life style and shows all its ideas and enthusiasm in five days of Catalan life!

Considering the gloom of the second part of 2009, the mobile industry is showing to the world that it is alive, active, and committed to innovation. Wondering around the halls and stands, I have seen three main themes in evidence: optimizing performance reducing costs, the proliferation of devices for different purposes and life styles, developing applications and services that can add value to the mobile network operators and the entire industry. These will probably be the three themes that will characterize the activities all over 2010.