BARCELONA: A scaled-back version of the world's biggest mobile telecommunications fair got underway on Monday (Tuesday in Manila) in Spain under tight virus controls with top firms avoiding an in-person presence after the pandemic derailed last year's edition.

Spain's King Felipe V and Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez were on hand for the opening of the four-day Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, one of the first big technology conferences staged in Europe since the start of the pandemic.

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