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Introducing: The Stadium Connectivity Outlook survey!
To all stadium, arena, ballpark, race track, concert-hall, convention-center, airport, casino and other large public venue owners, operators and administrators and deployers of connectivity technology: We need you! That is, we need you to take our Stadium Connectivity Outlook survey, a vehicle designed to find out "where we're at, and where we're going" when it comes to connectivity technology and the business Read More>>
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Heads & Tails brings new camera angles, business ideas to sports broadcasts
The idea of watching a baseball game from an umpire's viewpoint is no longer a future dream but a possible reality thanks to some new camera and distribution technology being demonstrated by a startup called Heads & Tails of Bonsall, Calif. Led by longtime sports marketer Tony Loiacono, Heads & Tails today is debuting its "NewAngle" camera technology with shows from the NBA's summer league Read More>>
New third-party wireless infrastructure company buys 5 Bars’ stadium business
Neutral Connect Networks (NCN), a newly formed third-party operator of wireless systems for sports and entertainment venues, has purchased the stadium business part of 5 Bars as part of its inception, a transaction publicly announced last week. As part of its rollup NCN also acquired DAS Communications, a third-party infrastructure provider with deployments in Boston and New York. The new Read More>>
Westfield brings high-density Wi-Fi to LA’s Century City mall
It might not look like a stadium, but if you take a close examination of the technology being put into the renovation of the Westfield Century City mall, you'll see a familiar use of wireless and networking technology aimed at improving the visitor experience while also benefiting the mall's bottom line. Some of that has to do with the fact that the mall's new IT team includes veterans of the Read More>>
TapIn2, Float Hybrid and Bud Light team up on food/drink delivery for minor-league ballpark
The Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders have introduced a mobile-device food and beverage order and delivery system for fans at PNC Field, the 10,000-seat home venue for the 2016 Triple-A national champions. Behind the new system is a partnership of TapIn2, a delivery-app startup that provides a similar service for the NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers and the Cincinnati Bengals; Float Hybrid, an Read More>>
Red Bull Arena grabs Wi-Fi by the horns
The New York Red Bulls have proven themselves very goal-oriented on the soccer pitch, so it was no surprise the team was equally methodical when they began a Wi-Fi upgrade in November 2016. Teams and stadium owners like to say their technology improvements are intended to improve fan experience. The Red Bulls are no exception, but Peter Katic, senior director, IT and arena systems for the team, Read More>>
AT&T to provide backbone bandwidth for Mercedes-Benz Stadium Wi-Fi
In a somewhat surprising announcement, AT&T said it will provide backbone bandwidth for the Wi-Fi network at the new Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, as part of a partnership deal that makes the carrier the "Official Communications Provider" for the Atlanta Falcons' new home. Announced today, the deal calls for AT&T to provide twin redundant 40 Gbps pipes to power the 1,800 Wi-Fi APs that are Read More>>
Verizon, JMA bring high-speed DAS to Sonoma Raceway
For the second year in a row, NASCAR fans who are Verizon Wireless customers should have a speedy cellular experience at this weekend's Toyota/Save Mart 350 at Sonoma Raceway, thanks to a neutral-host DAS Verizon built there two winters ago. According to Verizon, at last year's races the carrier saw 2.7 terabytes of data used by its customers over the weekend of race activity. The 2017 Monster Read More>>
New Report: State of the art Wi-Fi network at Braves’ new SunTrust Park
MOBILE SPORTS REPORT is pleased to announce the Summer 2017 issue of our STADIUM TECH REPORT series, the ONLY in-depth publication created specifically for the stadium technology professional and the stadium technology marketplace. In addition to our historical in-depth profiles of successful stadium technology deployments, our second issue for 2017 has additional news and analysis, including a Read More>>
