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| Phones in hand, fans at Lollapalooza take in a performance by Calvin Harris, a DJ, at the festival in Chicago's Grant Park in August. An estimated 100,000 spectators strained networks at the venue. (Getty Images) |
by John Jurgensen, Wall Street Journal, 4 December 2014
Stadiums and arenas are scrambling for wireless systems that can handle the mosh pit of Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat and Instagram users
If you can’t send a selfie from a rock concert or an NFL game, does it still count as being there? That’s more than an existential question as texting, tweeting, Snapchatting and Instagramming fans outpace—and overload—networks at public events.
At Lollapalooza this summer, four young women huddled amid the crowd, struggling with their phones. The cellular networks serving Chicago’s Grant Park, the site of the annual music festival, were swamped by the digital demands of roughly 100,000 fans.
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At Lollapalooza this summer, four young women huddled amid the crowd, struggling with their phones. The cellular networks serving Chicago’s Grant Park, the site of the annual music festival, were swamped by the digital demands of roughly 100,000 fans.