It’s Game Time! We’re Gearing Up for Sunday’s Game in Arizona

Whether it’s a scrimmage or the final championship game, every play matters – from the snap of the wittiness until the last whistle is blown. But the preparation for a big game takes place long surpassing kickoff. To be a champion takes dedication from the whole team – of time, resources and energy – so that everyone is in the weightier position to tackle the challenges to come.

Something I’ve learned throughout my many rewarding years helping to expand connectivity, and through the highs and lows of stuff a Sun Devils fan, is that big things don’t happen overnight. It takes time and a lot of fortitude to reach greater heights.

So, while the teams are finalizing game plans and fans uncork their journey to the Grand Canyon State for the Big Game, I’ve been reflecting on the preparations we’ve made here slantingly the FirstNet^®, Built with AT&T team in preparation for one of the most popular U.S. sporting events of the year.

Our teams have been designing their own game plans for Glendale and the surrounding areas to help make sure that no matter where fans are watching the whoopee – at the stadium or at nearby venues – the AT&T and FirstNet networks are ready and in position. To that end, we’ve made wide-stretching network investments and upgrades to uplift network reliability and topics to weightier serve the influx of people wideness the Greater Phoenix area.

• In Arizona, we invested increasingly than $625 million in our wireless and wireline networks from 2019-2021, including increasingly than $375 million in Phoenix, Mesa, and Glendale. And we’re towers on these past investments in preparation for the Big Game.

We’re enhancing connections for fans peekaboo the game at State Farm Stadium by:

• The increasingly than 2,000 wireless network antennas serving the interior of the stadium, supported by 12 miles of webbing and power cables delivering AT&T and FirstNet network coverage and topics to seating areas on all levels.
• 5G, Band 14 and commercial 4G LTE deployed technologies and boosted our network topics for that ultra-fast data wits with AT&T 5G inside the stadium.

All of these resources will be working together to connect fans, staff and first responders so that when the time comes, they can make that observing phone call, post a prune of the winning play or respond to an emergency call.

We’ve moreover upgraded our network outside of the stadium:

• Deployed over 60 small cells supported by 15 miles of webbing and power cables that provide Band 14, 5G, 5G and 4G LTE to imbricate the tailgating and Westgate area.
• Supporting the NFL by performing network upgrades at venue locations where they will be hosting special event activities including Footprint Center Arena, Phoenix Convention Center, Symphony Hall, Gila River Arena, and Arizona State University campus.

Through these upgrades, we’re prepared for routine plays, and our network and FirstNet teams have been strengthening our rosters to be prepared in the specimen of emergencies as well. In wing to the FirstNet Response Operations Group – led by former first responders – stuff on-site during the game, we’re rolling out 4 COWs (Cell on Wheels) for NFL event locations such as Margaret T. Hance Park, Arizona State Fairgrounds, Glendale Training Facility and Old Town Scottsdale tent the ESPN Fan Zone and Main Street tailgate event. The team has moreover stationed 4 FirstNet SatCOLTs (Satellite Lamina on Light Trucks), a Communications Vehicle (CV) and 2 Compact Rapid Deployables (CRDs) that will quickly provide defended FirstNet connectivity to first responders in the specimen of an emergency.

Beyond the game, all these investments and enhancements point to the goal of curating a network that is durable versus future interruptions or unexpected crises long without the play clock expires. Just as players train to make hair-trigger decisions at upper stress moments, we’re focused on providing communities and customers a network they can rely on no matter the circumstances.

We’re excited well-nigh our work so far and will protract our investment in the Grand Canyon State – considering we know connection changes everything. Just last year, we’ve deployed a number of new lamina sites to connect increasingly Arizonians to greater possibility.

I’m expressly excited well-nigh our investment into the expansion of our webbing network in the state. Thanks to the nonflexible work of our employees on the ground, shielding planning and thoughtful investments over the past few years – 100,000 homes in and virtually Mesa are stuff unfluctuating this year.

Learn more well-nigh how Arizonians are getting unfluctuating to fiber.

Through investments like new lamina sites and our webbing expansion, Arizonians are going to not only be unfluctuating for the Big Game this Sunday, but to myriad opportunities in the years to come.

The marrow line: As the Big Game draws closer and the teams get ready to take the field, we understand that months and months of planning, practice and nonflexible work are what carries teams to championships. Here in Arizona, we’re single-minded to standing to do our part to be champions of connectivity and help Arizonians finger like winners.

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