Verizon is awful at Neyland Stadium

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When you pay a company $300 a month for your family to have cell/Internet. It better work when you want it to. Pretty simple concept
 
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Panthro said:
My kid wanted me to tweet a pic of him (he's 3) to #risetothetop so they'd put it on the jumbotron. It wouldn't work and that was the stuff he cared about, not which QB was leading a more efficient attack.
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Not a true fan, IMO.

Jk:)
I took my 4yr old to the Troy game, and by halftime, he could've cared less. Until the 4th qrtr shoot out
 
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Panthro said:
My kid wanted me to tweet a pic of him (he's 3) to #risetothetop so they'd put it on the jumbotron. It wouldn't work and that was the stuff he cared about, not which QB was leading a more efficient attack.
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If your 3 year old knows what efficient means then go ahead and put him in school.

The jumbo torn is where it's at for little kids. Good times.
 
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It's hit and miss. Some games I have no issues. Most of the time I do though.
 
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Air_Force_Vol27 said:
It's also a giant concrete bowl and that doesn't help because the phone will hardly be able to get a signal because the signal is blocked by a giant concrete structure. Happen in every building on base because of the way they are built.
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Yeah even the BX/Commisary are like trying to call out of the middle of Cheyenne Mountain.
 
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Funny thing is, Verizon is a UT sponsor and Verizon sucks in Neyland but AT&T works ok. Bama has AT&T as a sponsor and AT&T sucks in Bryant/Denny but Verizon works. This may not be true for everyone, but seems to happen to me every time.
 
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I have AT&T and while I was at a game last year, I hardly had any service! I couldn't send texts and if I got lucky enough to send them, it would take minutes...
 
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There's not really anything a carrier can do to give good cell service to a stadium of more than 40,000. It's just not possible with the technology that exits. The upgrades last year around Neyland for Verizion and AT&T users boosted capacity by 40x. But the networks were till overloaded because of data. The technology can't keep up with the usage.

Stadiums in downtown areas of major cities are better because they have multiple major downtown hubs that supplement the towers in and around the stadium. College stadiums, for the most part, don't have that luxury.

Carriers used to bring in a few mobile towers on trucks that would slightly alleviate the proble,, but now with how big data usage is, they really don't help.

The only thing that has been really helpful at stadiums is high capacity WiFi, which takes all the data users off the cell networks. While a pro team thinks nothing of dropping $3-4 million on a WiFi system that can handle 40,000 users, it's difficult for a school to spend that money. UT and other schools are looking into how to best upgrade without breaking the bank.
 
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DeerPark12 said:
There's not really anything a carrier can do to give good cell service to a stadium of more than 40,000. It's just not possible with the technology that exits. The upgrades last year around Neyland for Verizion and AT&T users boosted capacity by 40x. But the networks were till overloaded because of data. The technology can't keep up with the usage.

Stadiums in downtown areas of major cities are better because they have multiple major downtown hubs that supplement the towers in and around the stadium. College stadiums, for the most part, don't have that luxury.

Carriers used to bring in a few mobile towers on trucks that would slightly alleviate the proble,, but now with how big data usage is, they really don't help.

The only thing that has been really helpful at stadiums is high capacity WiFi, which takes all the data users off the cell networks. While a pro team thinks nothing of dropping $3-4 million on a WiFi system that can handle 40,000 users, it's difficult for a school to spend that money. UT and other schools are looking into how to best upgrade without breaking the bank.
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Tennessee just finished a three-phase, $130 million+ renovation to Neyland Stadium. Spending a lousy 2 or 3 percent to help with cell data coverage would have made far more of their customers happy than adding the club level. The idea that they can't afford it is laughable.
 
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Ya know...I often wonder...are folks really as popular as they think...is the business gonna close because the owner went to the game?

I'm sure Cisco, Aruba, Verizon, Sprint, AT&T are looking for answers.

I was just happy to watch Vols playing baseball in Alaska.

Looking back, would I be willing to admit that I missed the Clint Stoerner fumble, because I was texting my friend to meet me at Calhouns after the game?
 
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vol66 said:
Ya know...I often wonder...are folks really as popular as they think...is the business gonna close because the owner went to the game?

I'm sure Cisco, Aruba, Verizon, Sprint, AT&T are looking for answers.

I was just happy to watch Vols playing baseball in Alaska.

Looking back, would I be willing to admit that I missed the Clint Stoerner fumble, because I was texting my friend to meet me at Calhouns after the game?
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The average nationally televised game now has what, an hour of downtime now, thanks to all the TV timeouts? People are not bad fans because they expect to be able to text their friends about the game during all the interminable stoppages.
 
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Vercingetorix said:
The average nationally televised game now has what, an hour of downtime now, thanks to all the TV timeouts? People are not bad fans because they expect to be able to text their friends about the game during all the interminable stoppages.
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I don't really disagree. I barely care. We could or could not have a debate regarding how television has F'd up live sports.

If I want to go to Bonnaroo, I'm going for the music, I'm not going to interrupt my friends who could care less that I went. On the off chance that one of them cares, I'll tell them about U2 when I have a chance. It's not going to ruin my experience if I can't relate the price of the porta potty.

"Marlin Lane just scored to beat UF, wish you were here." I'm VFL #URNOT.
 
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vol66 said:
I don't really disagree. I barely care. We could or could not have a debate regarding how television has F'd up live sports.

If I want to go to Bonnaroo, I'm going for the music, I'm not going to interrupt my friends who could care less that I went. On the off chance that one of them cares, I'll tell them about U2 when I have a chance. It's not going to ruin my experience if I can't relate the price of the porta potty.

"Marlin Lane just scored to beat UF, wish you were here." I'm VFL #URNOT.
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Not everyone uses messaging to send drivel to disinterested acquaintances. Last time I was in Neyland, I would have liked to be able text my wife during play stoppages, because she A) also cared intensely about the game, but B) she had to stay home and watch it by herself. Had Verizon's service not sucked, we could have in some small way felt like we watched that game together, even though I was in the stadium in Knoxville with my dad and she was stuck home with the kids in Atlanta. Instead she sat in a room by herself for four hours watching the game without having anyone to talk to about it. Maybe all you and your friends send each other from events is irrelevant blather, but that's not all everyone does.
 
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Vercingetorix said:
Not everyone uses messaging to send drivel to disinterested acquaintances. Last time I was in Neyland, I would have liked to be able text my wife during play stoppages, because she A) also cared intensely about the game, but B) she had to stay home and watch it by herself. Had Verizon's service not sucked, we could have in some small way felt like we watched that game together, even though I was in the stadium in Knoxville with my dad and she was stuck home with the kids in Atlanta. Instead she sat in a room by herself watching the game without talking to anyone for four hours. Maybe all you and your friends send each other from events is irrelevant blather, but that's not all everyone does.
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"I really miss you honey...I'm in Neyland and not in the parking lot on the way to the hotel...Rajon Neal ran like a beast, if it's a boy WDYthink of Rajon?

"I tried to send a pic of the walking horse, here's what it used to be like before they got rid of the chains."
 
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vol66 said:
"I really miss you honey...I'm in Neyland and not in the parking lot on the way to the hotel...Rajon Neal ran like a beast, if it's a boy WDYthink of Rajon?

"I tried to send a pic of the walking horse, here's what it used to be like before they got rid of the chains."
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Ah, I get it. You and your acquaintances speak to each other in empty banalities, so you assume that's what everyone else is doing too. No wonder it doesn't bother you when your service drops, because you're not missing anything anyway.

When I said I would have texted my wife about the game, I meant About The Game. She probably knows more football than 95 percent of the posters on this site.
 
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FWIW, Verizon has always been terrible in Neyland for me.
It's just as bad at LP Field in Nashville for Titans games.

I recently switched to T mobile, and at the preseason Titans game a week or so ago, it was marginally better than my Verizon experience.

There's too much data and not enough network ports to handle it. It really doesn't matter what carrier imo.
 
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Obsessedvol said:
I have AT&T and while I was at a game last year, I hardly had any service! I couldn't send texts and if I got lucky enough to send them, it would take minutes...
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This is pretty much my average day with Sprint.

Thank God my contract is up in less than 2 months.
 
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Vercingetorix said:
Tennessee just finished a three-phase, $130 million+ renovation to Neyland Stadium. Spending a lousy 2 or 3 percent to help with cell data coverage would have made far more of their customers happy than adding the club level. The idea that they can't afford it is laughable.
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When the renovation was finished three years ago, in-stadium WiFi wasn't something that was even on the radar screen. No stadium anywhere had it then. In fact, few cell phones three years ago even used WiFi. 2009 was just before the last big step in smartphone usage.

I agree, if they were spending $130 million on a renovation THIS year, it's a no brainer to do it. It would actually be cheaper to do it as part of a renovation than to retrofit the current system. But we're not in the middle of a renovation. We're in the middle of a well-publicized budget crunch at UT. They can't just cut a check for $3 million so we can all have WiFi.
 
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