The newly upgraded distributed antenna system (DAS) at Levi’s Stadium proved itself up to the annual Super Bowl stress test Sunday, with both Verizon and AT&T claiming new stadium records for game-day wireless data use on their networks during Super Bowl 60.
According to Verizon, its customers used 40.32 terabytes of data “in and around the stadium” on game day, well eclipsing the mark of 7 TB of data used by Verizon customers a decade ago at Super Bowl 50. AT&T, meanwhile, reported 24.4 TB of data used by its customers at Levi’s Stadium Sunday, for a two-carrier total of 64.72 TB.
The Levi’s Stadium DAS, first built way back when by DAS Group Professionals (now a part of AFL Wireless Services), carried 15.9 TB of total data during Super Bowl 50 in 2016. During that game AT&T customers used 5.2 TB of data, followed by T-Mobile with 2.1 TB, and Sprint with 1.6 TB.
Even though Super Bowl 60 had a higher reported attendance (70,823 fans) than Super Bowl 59 (65,819), the combined cellular totals were a bit lower for this year’s game when compared to last year’s Super Bowl 59, where AT&T and Verizon combined to see 67 TB of wireless data used.
According to Verizon, it had approximately 42,210 of its customers on the Levi’s Stadium networks Sunday, which works out to about 955 megabytes of data used per connected Verizon customer, just below the 1.09 GB per customer data mark we saw from Verizon last year. AT&T did not provide a number of connected customers, so we can’t calculate their per-user data.
If and when we hear from T-Mobile (we have a request out) we will revise this post to add their Super Bowl data totals in.
