Welcome to episode 1 of TelecomTV’s Top Ten Mobile Moments, where we are taking a retrospective look back at our twenty years of supporting MWC and its 3GSM predecessor.

Apple changed the mobile business forever. In my opinion, we’ve had two major revolutions in the cellular industry. The first was GSM - the move to a digital technology that was standardised, first within Europe, then globally, and which led to successive developments that continue to this day with 5G. The second was the iPhone – the Impossible Phone. And yet Apple has never, ever bought a booth at Mobile World Congress! However, as we are about to see in our news report from 2007 - the shadow of Apple looms large over every MWC…