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[Simmonumber1]

Why is it the data and signal goes inside football stadiums. When Virgin was with EE, I never had this problem

[MI5]

@Simmonumber1 

Simply due to the number of people connected to the nearest mast.

EE have repeaters in lots of stadiums, way more that O2 do.

[Oxonian]

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@MI5 wrote:

@Simmonumber1 

Simply due to the number of people connected to the nearest mast.

EE have repeaters in lots of stadiums, way more that O2 do.

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Wembley Stadium is, of course, sponsored by EE ; would be quite embarrassing for them if the signal therein was not tip-top !  👍

[MI5]

Indeed

[madasaf1sh]

BT Put lots of infrastructure into stadia, due to deals with the football clubs, and to help with their Sports TV Broadcasting now TNT Sports, so put up lots of femtocells and have dark fibre into a lot of them... so other networks have to rely on outside masts... 

Also its a long time since VM was with EE, as they have been to Vodafone and then over to o2 since then....

[Oxonian]

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@madasaf1sh wrote:

BT Put lots of infrastructure into stadia, due to deals with the football clubs, and to help with their Sports TV Broadcasting now TNT Sports, so put up lots of femtocells and have dark fibre into a lot of them... so other networks have to rely on outside masts... 

Also its a long time since VM was with EE, as they have been to Vodafone and then over to o2 since then....

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I assume @madasaf1sh that such stadia have one or more private networks for the use of the media, the club's own streaming services and the like ; with those networks not being visible to mere supporters ? 

[MI5]

Most likely satellite uplinks.

[madasaf1sh]

They only get one or 2 dark fibre installs into the Stadia and these are then routed to a POP usually the closest Data Centre, the networks they use in stadia are separated by VLAN's on the switches, so the can have a VLAN for Public Mobile Access and one for Stadia IOT Devices, and then another for Broadcast... and Satellite Uplinks are a lot more expensive than dark fibre connections, hence the use of them... 

I have gone through this on some locations where we have setup events, which have in excess of 100K people per day with multiple broadcasters... as well as corporate and vendors...