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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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