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May 09, 2015

How The Kentucky Derby Delivered Connectivity At Churchill Downs To Avoid One Giant Cellular Dead Zone

Last Saturday’s Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs broke a new single-sporting event wireless traffic record–of its own, at that–with over five Terabytes and upwards of 474 Gigabytes within AT&T’s network for the 290,000 fans in attendance–about 15.3 million social media posts and videos worth of mobile data consumption. Considering that the venue has been around […]

Nov 01, 2013

Chicago Bears Announces Soldier Field to Undergo Major Wireless Upgrade for Enhanced Fan Experience

(Precision Aerial) Any sports fan has dealt with this problem numerous times. You walk into the stadium of your favorite team with thousands of your closest friends for the day and you are excited to tweet, send pictures and read about things going on in the game that you might have missed from your seat. Then the 4G network on your phone is instantly overloaded and is relegated to a fancy, expensive paperweight for the next three hours.