For the second year in a row, the National Football League is building its own mobile app for the Super Bowl, this time with a single-application strategy meant to cover both fan activities the week before Super Bowl LII, as well as game-day functionality at U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis. And by Monday, Vikings season ticketholders will know if they have a chance to purchase seats for the game at U.S. Bank Stadium.
The carrier said it increased the number of antennas by almost 50 percent past year to establish one of the largest stadium DAS systems in the country.
The Super Bowl is a big deal in many ways, including as a test for a wireless network. The stadium will feature more than 1,200 antennas, including two large Matsing Ball antennas, across more than 100 coverage zones. Paul International Airport and hotels and venues across the area.
Company officials also said this week that it doubled the LTE spectrum available in Minneapolis-St. With more than one million people expected to attend events for Super Bowl LII, T-Mobile focused its network enhancements where the biggest crowds will be, boosting capacity 30x for spectators at U.S. Bank Stadium, 35x for the Super Bowl Experience at the Minneapolis Convention Center, and 16x at the Xcel Energy Center for Super Bowl Opening Night.
Rounding out the network upgrades made by T-Mobile was the deployment of a Centralized Radio Access Network (C-RAN) inside U.S. Bank Stadium. The Minneapolis/Saint Paul area is one of the nearly 2,000 markets where Verizon has deployed carrier aggregation, and more than 560 markets with 4X4 MIMO and 256 QAM/64 QAM technologies.
OpenSignal says the metro area has been performing well in similar studies for years. In addition, the Un-carrier deployed more than 120 small cells throughout the city, stadium and surrounding venues to provide additional coverage and speed inside buildings and other places that can be hard for typical towers to reach. Paul by game day, and Sprint also plans to place hundreds of its all-wireless "Magic Box" small cells in the area.
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