By Kevin Walsh
Content from Zeugma's running blog on Xchange Magazine.
The folks at SUPERCOMM have finally owned up to the widely rumored rescheduling of its Chicago trade show to October. This might not have been so bad if it didn’t occur after SUPERCOMM spent months expressing outrage over the false (“nasty!”) rumors spreading throughout the industry (what is otherwise known as lying). And it certainly didn’t help that the reason provided was incredibly lame—“This enables us to provide a comprehensive and timely forum to introduce new and enhanced programming and business opportunities that the stimulus will undoubtedly bring for the broadband community.”
First, let’s admit that the 21-year-old SUPERCOMM franchise never recovered from the dotcom/telecomm meltdown earlier in this decade. From the standpoint of both exhibiting companies and attendees, the numbers dropped more than 50 percent from a 1999 peak and declined from there.
