Telecom Conference SUPERCOMM Shelved For 2010

itwbennett writes "Once the largest telecom show in the United States, and arguably the world, SUPERCOMM has been shelved for financial reasons, the Telecommunications Industry Association announced yesterday. Blogger Tom Henderson speculates that the new emphasis on mobility rather than the landline infrastructure is partly to blame. (The Mobile World Congress in Barcelona and CTIA Wireless are the beneficiaries of this shift.) But part of the blame also has to go to the decline of multivendor conferences and trade shows, which Henderson attributes to vendors wanting their own shows where they can 'control the message.'"

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Everyone wants to pull an Apple

[McNihil]

Canon doing it for PMA... and so on and so on.

Important message from the vendors

[syousef]

Dear Peasants er we mean customers,

Please overpay more for your home phones, mobile phones and Internet so we can resuming having our annual junkets. You can do this easily by failing to be clairvoyant about your future usage of our products and services. At the boy's club er we mean SUPERCOMM conference we've had disagreements on the detail of the propaganda err we mean exciting information we wish to brainwash you err we mean inform you about. So we have decided to part company - each of us will be having lots separate shows from now on. However more junkets er we mean trade shows means more money is needed, so expect all your charges to go up errr we mean expect new and exciting value added offerings in line with the current environmental conditions.

Signed,

Those turkeys that make moving between handsets or providers a time consuming ordeal from hell....err we mean your friendly phone communications providers.

Now pass the vintage scotch, and call my drug dealer and pimp, I'm having a party tonight!

Decline due to internet

[vlm]

But part of the blame also has to go to the decline of multivendor conferences and trade shows, which Henderson attributes to vendors wanting their own shows where they can 'control the message.'"

I've found the largest reason for the decline is internet websites.

In ye olden days, if you wanted to learn about a new product, you had to go to a trade show, and get the hard sell from the salespeople. Now a days everything you'd ever want to know is in a downloadable PDF or on the website. If I want the hard sell, they've got sales phone numbers on the website.

Re:Decline due to internet

[Itninja]

Well that...or the largest economic decline in several generations. But let's go with websites.

Re:Decline due to internet

[vlm]

Well that...or the largest economic decline in several generations. But let's go with websites.

Eh, its trendy to be all depression-centric, but trade shows have been dying for a decade or more. COMDEX croaked in 2003, right in the early years of the credit/housing bubble.

Re:Why not have a teleconference?

[IANAAC]

It was done via the web, with bits of java. I can't remember who actually was responsible for the programming, but it was pretty slick.

You were basically placed in a virtual main hall, where you could then choose which sessions you wanted to attend. In each presentation, you looked at what you would normally see in a conference sesion - a slideshow-type presentation. There were no interruptions during the presentations, but after each session, there was a Q&A period where you could use either your keyboard and chat/ask, or actually use your microphone. You'd be placed in a queue with other questioners.

They also had other typical convention-type things, such as a networking room, etc, as well as the usual giveaways for "visiting" a vendor booth.