The Tallinn Song Festival Grounds are visited by tens of thousands of music and festival lovers during the summer months. In order to ensure that spectators can maintain high-quality data and voice communications, Tele2 is expanding the Song Festival Grounds base station and increasing the capacity and speed of the 5G network.
According to the operator, the Song Festival Grounds can have over 50,000 users online during a single evening during the summer season. Simply put, a situation arises where the audience, being together in a small area, shares the same mobile communication channels, which is like a common drinking tap – the more people who are taking a sip at the same time, the weaker the pressure of the stream. Tele2 is expanding the diameter of the “tap” and bringing 5G speed directly to the concert venue, so that all visitors receive better service quality even during times of higher demand.
To serve the lawn in front of the Song Festival Grounds, Tele2 will add four new sectors to the existing base station, which will ensure a higher quality and faster service than before. While until now the entire crowd had to share the coverage area of one sector, in the future the load will be divided between five sectors, which will increase the data volume and also improve the stability of VoLTE calls. The equipment and antennas will be installed on the Song Festival Grounds before major events, so that Tele2 can ensure a reliable 5G connection for the audience, even by the first concert of the summer.
Tele2 upgraded the Lauluväljak base station to provide the best experience at major events, to avoid overload and bring good data speeds and more stable call quality to customers. The upgrade of the base station means up to a tenfold increase in the capacity to serve data volume, and this is felt especially when using 5G.
Alari Amor, Head, Network Quality and Operations, Tele2
The Song Festival Grounds can have over 50,000 users online during a single evening during the summer season. Simply put, a situation arises where the audience, being together in a small area, shares the same mobile communication channels, which is like a common drinking tap – the more people who are taking a sip at the same time, the weaker the pressure of the stream. We are expanding the diameter of the “tap” and bringing 5G speed directly to the concert venue, so that all visitors receive better service quality even during times of higher demand.