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Successful EWT wireless show will repeat next November

Over 2,000 delegates showed up for the new "Enterprise Wireless Technology" show at Olympia this week, to the delight of organisers Reed Exhibitions - and they will "definitely" be repeating the show November next year, at the same venue.

It's hardly a rival to Comdex. However, in this still-small and growing industry, the industry leaders took booth space, and the right sort of end-user seems to have showed up for both the exhibits and the seminar sessions.

"Despite the Tube strike, it looks like 828 people arrived for the first day; and the second day, over 1,300 arrived," said an executive at Reed. "So we're really pleased, and will run it again next year."

Dates for next year are different; it will be 24-25 November 2003. As this year, however, the seminar sessions will be part of the show, not a paid-for extra. But there may have to be some bigger conference spaces, after it was standing room only at at least one session - the "Business Opportunities with WiFi Hotspots" session, chaired by the Editor-in-Chief of NewsWireless Net.