Mobile World Capital Barcelona signs an agreement with T-Systems to promote the use of mobile technologies and solutions

• The agreement will allow for the sharing of knowledge, experience, and know-how to bolster strategic areas such as smart cities, health, education, and tourism
• MWCB creates synergies between the industrial sector and institutions to take advantage of mobile technologies’ potential as an element transforming the industrial sphere

December 9, 2013

Mobile World Capital Barcelona (MWCB) has signed a collaboration agreement with T-Systems, a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom, to promote the use and implementation of mobile solutions and technologies, an objective shared by the two entities.

The agreement between the Foundation and the German company includes collaboration in strategic areas of interest to both entities, such as smart cities, the health sector, education, and tourism. The agreement also serves to promote the exchange of knowledge, experience, and know-how between professionals to carry out projects that accelerate mobile transformation, one of the MWCB’s founding objectives.

MWCB foments the generation of positive synergies with leading agents in the business and industrial sectors which, as in the case of T-Systems, contribute to the diffusion of mobile content and implement technological solutions generating wealth both in Catalonia and at the international level.

The signing of the agreement became effective this morning within the framework of the opening of the T-Systems Service Desk’s new Point of Production (POP) in Barcelona, one of the company’s four international operations centers, from which it offers service in 12 different languages to large-scale clients. Thanks to this POP in 2013 the company generated 170 jobs, and expects to close out the year with a total of 210 workers.

In addition to MWCB Vice-president Agustó Cordón and T-Systems CEO José Manuel Desco, the event was attended by Xavier Trias, mayor of Barcelona mayor and president of the MWCB Foundation, along with Felip Puig, Advisor for Business and Employment for the Regional Government of Catalonia.

The MWCB attracts talent and innovative business initiativesThe designation of Barcelona as a Mobile World Capital quickly drew the interest of companies such as NXP, the Dutch company that develops NFC (Near Field Communication) technology, and one of the largest manufacturers of these chips; and the Taiwanese firm Toro, a manufacturer of semiconductors. These two companies’ deployment in the city, in addition to
the collaboration agreement signed with T-Systems today, is the fruit of MWCB’s efforts to build a compact network of companies related to connectivity and mobility which generate opportunities and create added value for the economy.