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TE Connectivity Collaborates with Stadium Owners, Service Providers

September 10, 2013

(SPORTS TECHNOLOGY)

TE Connectivity (News - Alert) recently announced that it has entered into strategic collaborations with premier stadium owners and service providers nationwide. TE Connectivity’s distributed antenna system or DAS offerings are being leveraged by the stadium owners and service providers to offer best-in-class mobile services, allowing college football and NFL fans to connect this season.


Mobile coverage at university and NFL football stadiums around the country have been improved with the implementation of TE’s InterReach Spectrum (News - Alert), InterReach Fusion, and FlexWave Prism DAS products. Football fans can now utilize voice and data services, like making calls, sending text messages and pictures, post to social media sites and access the Internet via 3G and 4G network, via TE’s DAS offerings, even from the jam-packed stadiums, thereby enhancing their experience and sharing it with their friends and families.

In a statement, Peter Wraight, vice president and general manager for Wireless at TE Connectivity, said, “Using smart phones is now an integral part of the fan experience at football games, and fans expect high-quality mobile services. Our DAS products help ensure that stadiums and service providers can deliver the complete, robust coverage and capacity their fans demand.”

TE Connectivity’s DAS offerings have been implemented at MetLife Stadium, the home ground of the New Jets and the New York Giants; Fedex Field, the home ground of the Washington Redskins; Sports Authority Field, the home ground of the Denver Broncos; and University of Phoenix Stadium, the home ground of the Arizona Cardinals. The DAS offerings have also been deployed at the Rose Bowl, Boise State University Stadium, Oklahoma State University Stadium, University of Michigan, University of Mississippi and University of Oklahoma Stadium.

TE DAS systems have been implemented in a minimum of 50 stadiums across the globe. Important mobile operators are provided accurate, high-capacity wireless services by these systems. Normally, very huge quantities of traffic are generated by big crowds during sports and entertainment events. The necessary capacity to manage this traffic is offered by TE’s DAS, implementable in very little time with decreased costs. Visitors to major events normally experience dropped calls and slow browsing among other problems, which can now be avoided with the mobile network capacity offered by the TE DAS systems.




Edited by Ryan Sartor