All City Wireless

Now in its 37th year, the Annapolis Boat Shows have become an annual staple in the area, drawing roughly 100,000 people during the two-weeks that encompass the Sail and then Power Boat Shows.   Since its inception, they have been operating a “traditional system of ticket sales,” says Jim Barthold, General Manager of the Annapolis Boat Shows.  Their system included a long paper trail, starting with coupons that were cut out, filled in and sent to the Boat Show office, which would then be processed, resulting in a printed-paper ticket being mailed back to the customer.  This tedious process naturally put a restriction on the Boat Shows advanced ticket sales, due to both time constraints and the hassle of the process itself.  Understanding the impediments of this archaic system, the Boat Shows turned to Annapolis Wireless Internet (AWI), a franchise of AllCity Wireless, to lead them into the twenty-first century. 

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