The US Government Worries About The iPad's Impact On Wireless Networks
In his post "Message from the iPad: Heavy Traffic Ahead" on FCC's Broadband.gov blog, Phil Bellaria is sharing with us this week his concern about the launch of the iPad.
As you know, the iPad's 3G data consumption might have some nasty impacts on American wireless network, which are:
overburdened by a data flow they were not built to handle.
[...] With the iPad pointing to even greater demand for mobile broadband on the horizon, we must ensure that network congestion doesn’t choke off a service that consumers clearly find so appealing or frustrate mobile broadband’s ability to keep us competitive in the global broadband economy
While the issue is probably nothing new to most of you, Obama's administration official concern is alarming. It is indeed not hard to imagine how all those iPads streaming HD Youtube content could choke(hold) the network.
Unless AT&T steps up soon, we'll all be back in 1997 before we know it.
