Apple’s iPad announcement has set off a new round of reports of networks overburdened by a data flow they were not built to handle. These problems are reminiscent of the congestion dialup users experienced following AOL’s 1996 decision to allow unlimited internet use. For months users had trouble connecting and, once they did connect, experienced frequent service outages. The FCC even held hearings on the problem.
The congestion problem circa 1996-97 revealed an intense latent demand for Internet access. Similarly, wireless network congestion today reveals intense demand for wireless broadband. Widespread use of smartphones, 3G-enabled netbooks, and now, perhaps, the iPad and its competitors demonstrate that wireless broadband will be a hugely important part of the broadband ecosystem as we move ahead.

Eventually, AOL was able to resolve its problems by upgrading its modem and server capacities. Wireless providers today, too, will be able to deal with congestion issues but only if they have adequate spectrum. Reaching an always-on wireless broadband future means that spectrum can no longer remain attached solely to uses deemed valuable decades ago. The broadband plan will suggest ways of moving more spectrum into high value uses, such as broadband access, to help ensure that we don’t get stuck in 1997 dialup-style congestion. Wi-Fi technology presents the best in reach solution today for solving the missing Bandwidth, operators struggle to provide.
Never the less, Wi-Fi has its challenges such as limited range as well as a very congested spectrum filled with many interference sources. Only GoNets' Beamforming technology combined with GoNet's innovative patented dynamic RF filter can allow operators to deploy in collocation with 3G base stations having similar coverage in urban areas and successfully mitigating interference. 

Using GoNets high performance self assembling self healing mesh, operators can save costs of deployment as well as fill in easily uncovered areas in their area of coverage.