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The Mobile World Live (MWL) team reviews MWC Barcelona 2024, delving into the big topics: AI, devices, regulation and APIs, as well as personal highlights including make-up, singing keynoters, MWL-branded dressing gowns, a Barbie-themed phone and interviewing a President.

The GSMA revealed the return of M360 MENA. The event, hosted by the GSMA in partnership with Ooredoo, will take place in Doha, Qatar, from 18-19 November 2024.

GSMA director general Mats Granryd highlighted the increasing diversity of the wider mobile ecosystem, reflected by participants at MWC Barcelona 2024, was vital to finding new growth avenues and innovative investment models. 

Mobile operators representing 65 per cent of connections across the world have signed-up to the GSMA’s Open Gateway API programme in the year since its launch at the 2023 edition of MWC Barcelona.   

US operators AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon conducted independent cross-carrier interoperable API tests in North America focused on drone public safety connectivity. as part of the GSMA’s Open Gateway initiative.