A new J.D. Power study of airport passengers offers stadium operators a useful way to think about the economic value of reducing friction inside a venue. The 2026 North America Airport Satisfaction Study, released Sept. 16, surveyed 24,710 passengers and found that travelers who rated their airport experience as perfect spent an average of $47.60 […]
From stadium network to district infrastructure
Sports-anchored mixed-use development is changing the economics of venue ownership. Andrew believes it will also change how owners think about connectivity. For much of the last two decades, the wireless challenge in sports was relatively contained. Build enough capacity inside the venue to serve tens of thousands of fans, support increasingly mobile operations and keep […]
Technical debt is like a hidden tax on stadium business
How much is it costing yours? Stadium owners spend enormous amounts of time tracking construction budgets, operating expenses and capital replacement plans. There is another technology cost they rarely measure: technical debt. The term originated in software development, where it describes the future burden created when organizations make technology choices that solve an immediate problem […]
Do you believe in miracles?
The movie producers knew the Miracle story would sell. A group of American college hockey players defeats the most dominant team in the world. Mike Eruzione scores. Jim Craig survives the final Soviet push. Al Michaels asks the question that would become inseparable from the moment: Do you believe in miracles? For a generation of […]
How hyper-directional design unlocks wireless network capacity
A new Stadium Tech Report technical brief shows why channel reuse may be the key to increasing wireless capacity in the seating bowl. For a stadium owner, the wireless goal is pretty simple: make sure tens of thousands of phones work when the building is full. That requires capacity. Much of the progress in wireless […]
The Converged Network Effect
The network is one part of stadium technology nobody buys a ticket to see. Yet it may be the technology that determines whether everything else in the building was worth the price of admission. That hidden value is hard to measure because the network usually disappears behind the systems it supports. While the Wi-Fi, audio, […]
