As the NBA Playoffs enter the last round, The Finals, the spotlight brightens for the two teams remaining. The pulse of fans’ league-wide interest for the game–regardless if their team is still playing or not–reverberates through what’s trending on Twitter. The magnitude only increases, placing a premium on accessibility and unobstructed connectivity. Yet, it’s as […]
Last Saturday’s Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs broke a new single-sporting event wireless traffic record–of its own, at that–with over five Terabytes and upwards of 474 Gigabytes within AT&T’s network for the 290,000 fans in attendance–about 15.3 million social media posts and videos worth of mobile data consumption. Considering that the venue has been around […]
On the heels of yesterday’s Super Bowl XLIX setting yet another viewership record of 112.6 million viewers, there could be a more efficient way soon to watch the pro and college football games that fans love. During last month’s College Football National Championship game between Ohio State and Oregon, AT&T used the game to show […]
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Any sports fan has dealt with this problem numerous times. You walk into the stadium of your favorite team with thousands of your closest friends for the day and you are excited to tweet, send pictures and read about things going on in the game that you might have missed from your seat.
Then the 4G network on your phone is instantly overloaded and is relegated to a fancy, expensive paperweight for the next three hours.
Being a closer in baseball is often similar to being an NFL kicker. You could make 15 kicks or convert 15 saves in a row, but as soon as you give up a walk-off three-run home run or miss a 48-yarder by a few inches you are suddenly the least popular player on the team. […]
