Best Cell Phone Carrier to use in the stadium during games?

[pjfootballer]

You seem really angry.. all the OP asked was which cell phone carrier gets the best coverage at FedEx during a game. Yeesh.

I'm having a bad week (not sports related) and cell phone use is a daily anger issue with me. Boils my blood that people can't put the damn things down for 5 seconds. I literally watch people in their cars hold their phone in their hand when they are not using them. Why are you holding it? Put it on the console until it rings or beeps. I keep mine in my belt holster while I drive and unless someone calls me, it stays there and I concentrate on the road. This incessant obssession with cell phones has gotten so out of hand, I just don't know where to begin. People's lives revolve around those damn contraptions and to me that's a drain on society as a whole.

[SWFLSkins]

FYI, a bunch of Tampa fans were complaining that they could not get quality reception in Raymond James. They said the stadium was supposedly upgraded but didn't see a difference. I know my texts were stuck for minutes at a time before failing or going through.

[pjfootballer]

Some people have responsibilities.

I would venture to say that out of 100 calls that these people get while at the game, 2 are work related. I realize some people are on call, but people aren't on their phones for work related activities.

[Skins Wingman]

i love the people on here who think they're die hard because they watch every single second of the game.. do you talk during the game? do people talk to you? do you even move? lighten up its just a game if someone wants to pay for a ticket and go to the game and check updates on their phone occasionally, thats their choice dont bash them.

[HBnotBlades]

I'm sure any time you get close to 90,000 people in such a condensed location you're bound to run into bandwidth issues. I doubt any carrier is really better than any other.

This is exactly right. There's only a few towers in the area and far too many people trying to use them, especially during the most busy periods like halftime and just after the game.

[shuler74]

Its not the carrier

[MarkB452]

I have verizon and have no problems texting. I don't try to use the phone as a phone because there is too much noise to have a conversation anyways. I sit up on the 400 level.

[Voice_of_Reason]

I have Verizon and ATT. (2 phones, 1 work, 1 personal.) I was a season ticket holder and went to most of the games. I liked to check twitter at times during the game specifically for injury news, which you can't really get in the stadium. Neither worked well. Though Verizon worked a bit better. But blackberries suck.

[DCsportsfan53]

Was just there this weekend and I have Tmobile. Could not get anything once inside, in the parking lot and at the gates it worked fine. No 4G or phone signal in my seats. Put quite a hurting on monitoring my fantasy teams during commercial breaks.

[ClemsSC7Skinfan]

This is exactly right. There's only a few towers in the area and far too many people trying to use them, especially during the most busy periods like halftime and just after the game.

Just as mentioned here and in the quote that HB was citing. I can tell you from working on the power for the system at Clemson that it is usually owned by a particular carrier (Verizon at Clemson) but all carriers piggyback onto the receiver at the stadium. Then the point is to have enough fiber to carry that out of the stadium to the nearest tower and then to spread as quickly to many towers after that. All carriers rent some time/space on each other's towers and they do this for these scenarios. I don't believe it makes a bit of difference for who's phone service you have it is really a matter of how many people are using their phone in the same location at any given moment when you choose to use yours.

[SonnyandSam]

I have had ATT for the past ten years as a season ticket holder. My reception varies depending on where I am. I seldom ever have had issues in the parking lot before or after games. Seems to be very spotting next to the stadium or on a concourse. I've sat in section 424, 109, 108, and 207. Reception in 424 seemed spotty. Never had a problem in 108 or 109; although I seldom talked on the phone because I could not hear anything from the crowd noise. Text and Twitter were fine in 207 last week.

I think it is not so much the carriers as the stadium itself...concrete and steel. Both can affect radio waves. Now it might be nice if Danny boy installed wi-fi in the stadium. That would certainly help by having all the extra antennas.

[skinsforlife101]

T Mobile is good in the stadium as far as Texting and making calls go. However, the 4G network is spotty in and around the stadium

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Was just there this weekend and I have Tmobile. Could not get anything once inside, in the parking lot and at the gates it worked fine. No 4G or phone signal in my seats. Put quite a hurting on monitoring my fantasy teams during commercial breaks.

I was in Section 134 and was able to text some pictures to my friends I think I had 1-2 bars of service

[DCsportsfan53]

Weird. I was in 106 and couldn't get anything, not even texts or calls.

[Howie411]

So I noticed yesterday I was getting a 4G LTE signal on my Sprint phone at the stadium, this must be relatively new, when I was at the Atlanta game I did not have a 4G signal. The signal was great and the first time I've been able to take advantage of my HTC Evo LTE phone. As soon as I left the stadium I lost the signal and it went back to 3G. I wonder if they added a tower at the stadium. Not many folks have a 4G sprint phone so the bandwidth was not saturated yet.

[Rypien1191]

It sure as hell isn't T-Mobile. I get no internet or texting there.