Got $50,000? Sponsor WiFi at Wireless 2002
The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association (CTIA) is working hard to get 802.11 coverage throughout the Orange County Convention Center for Wireless 2002, March 18 - 20 in Orlando. It has been strongly encouraging, so to speak, the convention center to improve its WiFi coverage.
It looks as if Wireless 2002 attendees and exhibitors could get extensive coverage. True "wireless Internet."
But to enable everyone to get free access the CTIA needs a sponsor for $50,000. The convention center WiFi operator is unable to bill attendees individually!
The CTIA expects 40,000 attendees expected and more than 1,000 exhibitors at Wireless 2002.
If you manufacture WiFi cards, for example, the CTIA will let you sell or lease cards (or give them away, if you like) with a free stand outside of the exhibit hall. You'll get plenty of publicity and signs from the CTIA.
As I've written previously in "Wireless Blogging," (among other places), I believe wireless Internet access will change -- for the better -- the way public conferences and corporate meetings are operated.
I don't get anything from publicizing this for the CTIA, except the satisfaction of encouraging the use of WiFi.
If you are interested in sponsoring WiFi coverage, contact Robert Mesirow, the vice president of conferences and business development at the CTIA. His e-mail address is rmesirow@ctia.org.
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