COACHELLA FESTIVALGOERS GO WILD WITH WIRELESS THANKS TO AT&T

537 MILLION UPLOADS AND DOWNLOADS, 62 MILLION TEXTS

Music fans packed the first weekend of the annual Coachella Festival and didn’t miss a beat communicating their own reviews through 537 million uploads and downloads as well as 62 million texts according to AT&T.  The company set up a major installation to provide wireless service over a venue the size of 45 football fields.  

AT&T’s Coachella Compound includes three COLTS and one COW, temporary cell sites on wheels plus additional equipment spotted strategically around the venue to ensure wireless signals reach their targets.  This equipment is all moveable and can be deployed to provide expanded coverage at major events such as Coachella or the Super Bowl or to provide emergency service in the case of natural disasters.  (AT&T recently secured Department of Homeland Security certification for disaster preparedness – the first for a private sector company).

AT&T’s enhanced wireless service will be in place again this weekend as well as for the Stagecoach Country Festival the following weekend.

AT&T's Colts and Cows- Coachella 2012

AT&T Regains the Lead- 3G and 4G Speeds are IMPRESSIVE

PCWorld has tested 3G and 4G wireless data transfer speeds at multiple locations in 13 major cities and these are the results they got:























AT&T is quickly rolling out a 4G LTE network to compete with Verizon's LTE service, too. So far, the speeds that we've recorded for AT&T's LTE network are impressive: In the 11 cities in our test group where the service is available, the network delivered an average download speed of 9.12 mbps. That's about 25 percent faster, on average, than Verizon LTE's download average of 7.09 mbps in those same ten cities- PCWorld


We did our own speed test with AT&T in LA and NYC and this is what we got:

You can read the whole PCWorld article HERE.