Get Ready for MWC 2010

9:15 AM -- It's not too early to start thinking about Mobile World Congress 2010. (I can already taste the tapas.) (See Nokia Stands Down at MWC.)

And the GSM Association (GSMA) today revealed the keynote lineup for the mobile fest in Barcelona in February next year. The headliners will be:

• Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE: ALU) CEO Ben Verwaayen
• China Unicom Ltd. (NYSE: CHU) chairman and CEO Chang Xiaobing
• Ericsson AB (Nasdaq: ERIC) president and CEO Hans Vestberg
• Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) chairman and CEO Eric Schmidt
• Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. chairman Guo Ping
• KDDI Corp. president and chairman Tadashi Onodera
• Telefónica SA (NYSE: TEF) executive chairman and CEO César Alierta
• Vodafone Group plc (NYSE: VOD) CEO Vittorio Colao

The GSMA will also make a special place for application developers at the next MWC. There will be another event in Barcelona called App Planet dedicated to all things apps -- so now, there's an event for that.

— Michelle Donegan, European Editor, Unstrung