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Stadium Tech Report

February 26th, 2025

5G

Editorial

Will stadiums embrace smart poles for parking lots?

If providing technology inside a stadium is an accepted idea, bringing more technology to the spaces just outside stadiums -- mainly parking lots -- is still a work in progress. While venues have tried different types of one-off integrations, like attaching Wi-Fi or cellular antennas to existing light poles, some new offerings are coalescing around the idea of a "smart...

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T-Mobile, MLB bringing new AR app to Home Run Derby

Baseball fans looking for a new way to watch the All-Star Game Home Run Derby will have an augmented-reality option this year, via a new app developed by T-Mobile and MLB that will use 5G-connected cameras on player hats and catchers' masks to provide a player's point-of-view to the derby action. Though the 5G network that will power the app...

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Mobilitie acquired by BAI Communications

Third-party neutral host operator Mobilitie announced today that it has been acquired by BAI Communications, an Australian-based provider of telecommunication services in urban settings similar to what Mobilitie does in the U.S. market. Though terms of the deal were not announced, press releases about the acquisition pointed to BAI expanding its reach for third-party neutral-host operations into the U.S. market,...

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Verizon adds 5G to 14 NBA arenas

Remember back at the start of 2020, when we told you that 5G was coming to stadiums? Well that trend is fully underway now, highlighted this week by Verizon's announcement that it had deployed its 5G ultra wideband services in 14 more NBA arenas, part of multi-year partnership agreements between Verizon and now 15 NBA teams. The NBA announcement follows...

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Editorial

Stadium technology provided support for mass vaccination sites

While the Covid-19 pandemic kept many fans from attending live events the past year, that didn't mean that stadiums stayed empty. After first serving as Covid-19 test sites, since the start of the year many stadiums and arenas across the country lent their parking lots and indoor spaces to vaccination efforts, using the wide-open spaces and already-in-place resources like power,...

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