speaking of slightly OT but perhaps still operational content

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I noticed where the democrats plan to ask a stadium full of people to all
use their cellphones at the same time (on Thursday, I believe)

Any thoughts on how useable cell service will or wont be in the vicinity of
this event? :slight_smile:

-Dorn

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I noticed where the democrats plan to ask a stadium full of people to all
use their cellphones at the same time (on Thursday, I believe)

Any thoughts on how useable cell service will or wont be in the vicinity of
this event? :slight_smile:

I don't know, but I have heard complaints about the wireless service in the Convention Center.

Regards
Marshall

3

Unless they have installed a DAS system for cell signal transport or a number of micro or nano cells in the building they will have congestion. But what is a political convention without a little congestion.

John (ISDN) Lee

4

Probably very less amount of users will be able to call and the rest in that
cell site coverage will get congestion.

-amir

5

Perhaps I'm wrong, but I thought its fairly typical for large events such as these (with lots of communications assets being deployed, not unlike a Superbowl, etc) for Cell companies to roll in COWs (Cell-on-wheels) type deployments to support additional capacity.

Am I living in a fantasy land?

Deepak

John Lee wrote:

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Even with a COW, I'm not sure all the providers together have anywhere near
enough spectrum to service 75,000 geographically coincident calls :slight_smile: