Lazaros Kalemis is a loyal user of Apple’s iPhone. But when he went to Phillies games at Citizens Bank Park earlier this year, his smartphone seemed to play dumb. He’d joke with friends that it was easier to find AT&T billboards than bars of service on his signal display.
No longer. The wireless-phone industry may be facing a “data tsunami” in network demand, as Nielsen analyst Roger Entner describes it. But AT&T says it has finally solved bandwidth problems at the ballpark that have plagued it since last year.
AT&T officials say they have installed a state-of-the-art system that adds the equivalent of nearly three cell towers within the 45,000-seat stadium. They say the system quadruples the channel capacity available to fans of the Phils, who have sold out every home game so far this season.
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Now if only they could do something about the signal in my basement. They were supposed to have microcells available for homes.
#Do you Want to say something?