One million spectators attending Tuesday’s Denver Broncos Super Bowl 50 victory parade consumed 3.1 terabytes of data by taking photos and videos, texting friends and possibly even calling someone, according to Denver Post tech reporter Tamara Chuang. And, says Chuang, that was just Verizon’s customers!
Verizon said that massive amount of data — equivalent to 517 Verizon customers maxing out on a 6 GB monthly plan — occurred between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. Festivities of the Broncos Super Bowl 50 victory parade started at 10 a.m. with music, with the parade at noon and the rally about 30 minutes later. The Post reports “wireless service was a challenge. Verizon may be ranked as the area’s top provider, but it too struggled even with its 19 existing LTE sites plus 10 extra portable cell towers wheeled in for the event,” the tech reporter noted.
“With the number of people attending the Broncos parade and rally on Tuesday, there were connection spikes on the network, which could have resulted in some temporarily delayed connections. Imagine every car in Denver trying to turn onto Colfax at the same time – traffic will slow down, and some cars won’t be able to turn onto the street,” Meagan Dorsch, a Verizon spokesperson, told the Post.
“In the end, we believe our network performed very well and the proof is the 3 TB of data our customers were able to share. We know this is important to our customers and their network of Broncos fans.”
Verizon earlier said that during the Super Bowl, its customers used 7 TB of data at Levi’s Stadium in California. At the last home Broncos game when the team won the AFC Championship, Verizon users downloaded or uploaded 1.17 TB of data.
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