Whatever it costs to upgrade the stadiums with Wi-Fi will be passed on to us, most likely in the form of higher ticket prices, which the team will tell us is just an increase due to the “normal increase in the cost of doing business.”

WiFi won’t get me in the stadium. Unfortunately, I had to come to the realization that watching rich folks play football in the stadium is for well… for rich folks and apparently above my social class.

If you really want to fill the seats, just take a serious look at what it would cost a guy in my shoes to take his family to just 1 game a year. Don’t make people weigh a nice afternoon in one hand and their car payment and probably grocery money in the other hand. I’d love to take my kids to a game someday, but I know that will probably never happen.

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Winner. Need a good laugh once in a while.

I thought it was great, my connection was flawless, and it saved my phones battery life.

Your phone searching for or being on a 3G or 4G connection consumes a lot more battery than being on a steady wireless connection.

I have season tickets so a wireless connection doesn’t make or break me going to a game, but it is a welcomed perk and helps justify the price of our PSL’s and inflated ticket price (no matter how insignificant this perk is).

If this is any indication of how it is going to be, I would rather not have the service because then they can be “justified” in jacking up the ticket prices.

Maybe can the whole idea and encourage people to put their devices away to, oh, I don’t know. Maybe actually watch the game?

Set up 50 hotspots. 5 levels of 10 wireless routers around the stadium. They’ve had 6 months to set this up. I could do it in one day.

A router is what $25? The cables aren’t expensive. I don’t see the problem.

I can only speak for Lucas Oil Stadium, but the in-stadium stats, etc are poor. I would love to have complete in-game stats at my fingertips, but all the local cellular networks are overwhelmed and unusable before kickoff. In-stadium wifi would definitely alleviate much of the strain on the cellular networks, but improved capacity of the actual cellular service is also necessary.

2) Why spend all that money to go games and play with your phone? Do people realize you can’t actually coach their fantasy players.

3) Not checking your phone 3 hours won’t kill you. Put the phone down and let the other team how much they suck.

That’s a terrible business model in place for any company to sign up for.

The NFL should be paying the company so they can keep fans in the seats!