Verizon Users Inside Super Bowl Stadium Gobbled 4.1TB Of Data

Every year wireless carriers have to put serious time and effort into beefing up networks in the stadium where the Super Bowl is played. This year was no different with Verizon and other carriers adding more network capability at the University of Phoenix Stadium where the big game was played. Verizon Wireless has offered up some data statistics from the game and its customers inside the stadium used a huge amount of data.

Combined, Verizon customers consumed 4.1TB of data. That is a massive increase in data use compared to the amount that Verizon customers who were at the 2014 Super Bowl when 1.9TB of data was consumed. Sprint has said that its customers in and directly outside the stadium used 754GB of data during the game.

AT&T customers in the stadium consumed 1.7TB of data according to the carrier. The smallest of the major carriers, T-Mobile, says that its customers generated 430GB of data use and offered a bit of a breakdown in how the customers used the data. T-Mobile says that 33% of that data was for web browsing, 24% of social media, and 17% for audio or video streaming.

To gear up for the big game Verizon installed new cell sites at the location and installed indoor and outdoor distributed antenna systems while adding 13 more mobile cell sites among other upgrades. AT&T added 13 new or upgraded permanent DAS installations and added ten mobile cell sites. AT&T also noted that the stadium was the first venue in the country to have four-carrier LTE coverage. Sprint added mobile cell sites and added a new 2.5GHz cellular system inside the stadium.

SOURCE: FierceWireless