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One thing I would like is more tower capacity for dense events like sporting events and music festivals. Even with a strong 4g connection I often can't even rel
by yeldarb 11y ago
One thing I would like is more tower capacity for dense events like sporting events and music festivals. Even with a strong 4g connection I often can't even reliably get a text to go through while tailgating at a football game.
- edwhitesell 11y agoThat's usually a result of poor backhaul capacity. A lot of tower sites likely still running on copper (or PtP wireless) instead of fiber, so the capacity just isn't there for locations that only have a lot of connected devices "sometimes" Many sporting venues, universities, college/corporate campuses have on-site cells or wifi offloading already built. But there are lots of them that don't. In the past, it's because the carriers won't pay for the capacity themselves, but want the location to do so. Which doesn't make sense, because if you owned a venue, how would you pick between ATT, Verizon, T-Mobile & Sprint? You're definitely not going to pay all of them to put in cells. Wifi offloading makes it somewhat easier for the location to build-out capacity, but it's still not cheap. 100s of thousands of dollars...