Apart from advances in the area of radio interfaces, new ways of deployment are currently observed where public-private financing is used to start so-called muniwireless networks. These networks are almost operator-less driven, with many (cheap) access points providing a blanket of coverage and bandwidth.

Extrapolating the trend of relative cheap access points that are located more or less randomly leads to a so-called liquid bandwidth network. This network, based on various radio standards, is characterised by the availability of an average capacity, bandwidth and performance, but this ‘average’ can be focused and (self-)organised in such a way that at any particular time and any particular place peak capacity, peak bandwidth and / or peak performance can be realised.

This focusing encompasses a strong interaction between terminal and network nodes, but the self-organisation aspect implies a different role for the network operator; the network and terminal ‘know’ of preferences, capabilities and requirements, and act accordingly and autonomously.