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Nana Sakisaka • Edited

Oh, I remember a real world example for this: the Comic Market.

Comic Market is the largest offline otaku event in Japan... (590,000 / 3days) people attends the single event. The place is basically 3-4 huge domes.

The network issue have been a big (and well-known) problem since then, people started to solve it technically. In recent years, tech team from the Japanese mobile network company (e.g. Softbank, au, NTT Docomo) attends the event officially; you can find their state-of-the-art van with huge antenna. Yes, it's a van-sized yet huge base for huge network (i.e. the Japanese mobile network itself).

Wild Wi-Fi access points (i.e. mobile Wi-Fi station) is strongly discouraged at Comic Market, because they cause congestion. Most people know that their normal mobile network is the best and some people know those hard efforts are being made behind the scene.