Small cells, better radios and lots of spectrum do make a difference, as shown at the Superbowl venue, hard Rock Stadium in Miami Feb. 2, 2020.
Inside the stadium, AT&T increased its 4G LTE capacity by 300 percent and also deployed six mobile cell sites. T-Mobile more than doubled 4G LTE capacity at Hard Rock Stadium and deployed mmWave-based 5G in select locations at the stadium.
Sprint used massive MIMO radios at the stadium to increase capacity. Verizon installed 5G nodes at the stadium. All those investments paid off as heavy venue activity still did not crash the networks. Downstream speeds ranged from nearly 300 Mbps on the Verizon network (the only network to use millimeter wave frequencies, apparently).
The other networks managed speeds from 104 Mbps to 122 Mbps.
The stadium 5G networks ranged from the Verizon millimeter wave 646 Mbps downstream speeds to the T-Mobile US 348 Mbps speeds using low-band spectrum and AT&T’s 226 Mbps performance using advanced 4G.
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