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HOT SPOT-2.0 A Blessing in Disguise for Wifi

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Introduction Recently I started reading about 802.11 wlan technology, I had encountered with many features, but out of all HOTSPOT 2.0 is most popular from carrier wifi prospective. This will help mobile operators to provide seem less wireless roaming and data offload to reduce the burden on the overly crowded high density cellular network.  I feel even though almost 80% of the world data traffic going via wifi and widely used but research and new feature addition is quite slow in last decade compared to 3GPP based technologies. However, recently wifi feature development is fast tracked after google, facebook, ruckus and many similar internet companies shown some interest in this old man technology. It is one of the feature which has made possible for Wifi to converge with most popular technologies like  2G/3G/4G,  which are typically used by major Mobile Operators in the world. History Behind HOTSPOT Normally when we think about HOTSPOT, it is always ab