2023 Superbowl network improvements

[dkyeager]

https://www.fiercewireless.com/wireless/t-mobile-att-and-verizon-gear-super-bowl

T-Mobile DAS upgrades and AT&T under the seats antennas are interesting. Hopefully someone gets pictures and details of the under the seats antennas.

[red_dog007]

Anyone release reports yet?

I just went to rcrwireless and they have a small article on it

https://www.rcrwireless.com/20230214/carriers/verizon-and-att-super-bowl-lvii-fans-used-record-amount-of-data

VZW used 47.8TB, AT&T 21TB.

62,827 fans with 60% being VZW customers.

VZW had 1,400 under seat 4/5G nodes. 490 5G nodes. AT&T deployed 2,000 nodes inside the stadium.

At least for VZW, beings we know how many people were their customers, they had 19 people per node.

Edited February 14 by red_dog007

[iansltx]

Additional math: VZW customers consumed on average 760 MB on Sunday, though my guess is that the number was actually lower because VZW probably had some non-fan macro traffic in there.

Wonder what the breakdown on customer count was between AT&T and T-Mobile. In order for AT&T to have used less data per person, T-Mobile market share would need to have been pretty small.