Recent content by sphen

From a technical point of view, WiFi in stadiums is very hard to get right. Most previous attempts at stadiums in the US and Europe have failed or provided Internet access for only a few hundred users at most. The Gillette Stadium WiFi implementation (supposed to provide 40% of fans with WiFi...

You are right that there is nothing stopping you, however, we are still in the testing phase of the project. Things may not work as well as we would like or expect. By giving the app out to a small number of users in the west stand, we can provide the support if things go wrong. If we go...

The app handles the wifi connections for you. If you have the app running on the phone, it should take care of everything.

Out of luck I'm afraid. The town needs two piers for the app to work. We are still developing the technology so there may be some bugs and issues. If so, we blame the west pier for this.

So lets say you've looked at the live scores in the app and you've download the latest scores because you have a good mobile data connection. Someone else in the stand, doesn't have a mobile data connection, so of course he can't get the latest scores from the Internet. In that case, their app...

It won't slow your 3G connection. Say you've already downloaded the latest live scores, the app will share that with fans who are less fortunate and have poor reception. Steve (the one from the digital stadium project).