Prism's New IWCE/MRT Wireless Summit to Provide Enhanced Education, Networking Opportunities in Focused Format.

NEW YORK -- Prism Business Media, organizer of the International Wireless Communications Expo (IWCE) and publisher of Mobile Radio Technology([R]) magazine (MRT), today released additional details on its first annual IWCE/MRT Wireless Summit, to take place November 14-15, 2006 at the Hilton Charlotte University Place in Charlotte, NC. The new event has been designed to offer professionals in the wireless communications industry enhanced networking opportunities and a targeted conference program in a smaller, cost-effective format and setting than the large-scale IWCE in Las Vegas.

The IWCE/MRT Wireless Summit will be a two-day event featuring alternating conference sessions, selected tabletop exhibits from 15 leading vendors and networking programs for professionals in all areas of the wireless communications industry, including technology end users, public safety professionals, wireless service providers and IT professionals, as well as industry dealers and consultants. The Summit's location provides an intimate atmosphere, designed to promote increased interaction between attendees, sponsors and vendors, while reducing travel and lodging costs, as well as time out of the office.

"We consciously set out to create an event with a different feel and focus than the IWCE," said Rita Ugianskis-Fishman, group show director. "The program's two-day format and small-town setting will allow attendees who weren't able to join us in Las Vegas, or are looking to interact in more relaxed surroundings, with great opportunities to network with their peers and industry leaders."

Sponsoring companies to be showcased will include: Anritsu, ComProd Communications, Datron World Comm, Dekolink Americas, EF Johnson, Icom America, M/A Com, Inc., Microwave Data, Raytheon, Stratos, and Verint Systems.

The conference program will provide an in-depth look at the latest issues facing the industry and includes keynote addresses by Chuck Jackson, Motorola Communications and Electronics, Inc. vice president and director of systems operations, Motorola, Inc. and Dathan Shows, director of technical services for the City of Wilson, N.C. who will speak on "An Unlikely Solution; Using Cellular as a Public Safety Communications Network."

General session topics include: "800 MHz Rebanding; An East Coast Perspective"; "Nationwide Interoperability: 700 MHz for Public Safety" and "Hurricane Katrina; One Year Later, What Have We Learned?"

Additional breakout sessions topics include "City-Wide Wireless Mesh Networks"; "P25 Update: Standards and Benefits"; "4.9 GHz Networks for Public Safety - Promises, Planning & Pitfalls"; "Design and Implementation of In-Building Wireless Systems"; "Narrowbanding - To Divide or Multiply, the Great Debate"; "Commercial Networks as a Substitute for Private Networks - Facts, Fiction, Pitfalls and Potential"; "The Convergence of RF and IT - Computing and Radio Become One" and "Current Developments in Broadband Wireless."

For additional information, contact Rita Ugianskis, Group Show Director at [phone], email: [e-mail] or Mark Hickey, Publisher at [phone], email: [e-mail] or visit www.iwce-mrt.com.

IWCE and Mobile Radio Technology are part of Prism's family of print and electronic publications, events and rich data products serving the telecommunications industry.

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