One month on from this year’s Mobile World Congress, just about all the comments and analyses have been written, and the main question remaining, as always, is ‘was it worth it?’. Do all the millions and millions of dollars spent, as well as several weeks of distraction from normal business, actually change the fortunes of a vendor or operator, or influence the course of the industry as a whole in the year ahead? We now have the comparator of two years without a recognizable MWC, of course, as well as a pared-down event in 2022. Many observers speculated large stakeholders would realize that they could function perfectly well without the cost and disruption of the Barcelona show and support something…