The GSMA has unveiled details of the 2016 GSMA Mobile World Congress Shanghai, its fifth, saying it expects more than 50,000 attendees and 400 exhibitors. The event will again be held alongside the Shanghai Digital Information Festival at the Shanghai New International Expo Center (SNIEC), with attendees having access to both events.

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Cisco and US-based global engineering company, CH2M have announced a global strategic relationship to provide urban planning and design, smart-technology integration and program delivery services, starting With Shendra-Bidkin, an industrial smart city being developed along India's Delhi-Mumbai industrial corridor.

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