Hasta la vista, Barcelona! Mobile World Congress 2010 in review

The mobile industry arrived in Barcelona for its annual shindig last week in an upbeat mood, putting the economic troubles of the last 18 months behind it and looking forward to global commercial rollouts of super-fast LTE networks later this year. Among the major announcements at the show were a new worldwide operator-led applications initiative, the unveiling of Microsoft's new mobile operating system and a glut of top-of-the-range Android devices from the likes of HTC. The GSMA Intelligence team was in Barcelona to analyse developments and identify trends.

• Network optimisation the key to LTE success (Joss Gillet)
• Microsoft emerges from last chance saloon with guns blazing (Matt Ablott)
• Apps war further fragments market (Will Croft)
• Momentum builds behind embedded mobile; now the real work begins (Justin Springham)
• M&A on the agenda (Jon Groves)
• Minor vendors steal the handset thunder (Joss Gillet)
• Google embraces mobile; but leaves handsets to vendors (Matt Ablott)
• Tomorrow's world, today... (Will Croft)
• Voice over LTE finally finds a unified home (Justin Springham)
• Latin America: Opportunities and challenges (Jon Groves)