Villa Park to offer 4G coverage

[Legion]

I get decent coverage in VP with my crappy old 3 phone. Which is just as well considering how often I had to text updates to Leeg during the Sunderland game. Sorry Leeg, didn't mean to remind you that you missed a 6-1 win.

GIT! *Sobs uncontrollably* Bastard OFSTED.

[not3bad]

I can barely send a text message from the Holte End let alone anything else.

[Legion]

Now I am going to make it even worse for myself:

THAT match

Sorry for going OT.

[Rudy65]

Thank God for that.

My son will now stop moaning he cant get phone coverage in the Holte at HT

[damon loves JT]

So.... is this good or bad? I feel so stupid

[PeterWithesShin]

Now I am going to make it even worse for myself:

THAT match

Sorry for going OT.

On the season review DVD you can see me texting you just before Vlaar scores.

[bertlambshank]

The Blues have a payphone.

[London Villan]

Id just be happy with my phone working so i dont get bombarded with texts 20 mins after the final whistle.

[TheMalandro]

The Blues have a payphone.

and it smells of piss

[Arsey]

iPhone 5 is 4G compatible.

All iPhones 5 users currently contract with 3 will be upgraded to their 4G service, for free, when it launches in September (providing their contract extends beyond Sept of course).

[levico]

Went to see the SF Giants lose at home to the Miami Marlins two days ago. They provide free wi fi in all areas of AT&T park and it works very well.

Don't think we're quite ready for that here yet.

[DeKuip]

FFS, going to the game is one of the few places we can escape phones, getting texts or calls, or having to listen to other people on their phones. It's only a couple of hours, if it's that urgent they'll make an announcement over the tannoy and tell us to see a steward or go home.

[pauliewalnuts]

FFS, going to the game is one of the few places we can escape phones, getting texts or calls, or having to listen to other people on their phones. It's only a couple of hours, if it's that urgent they'll make an announcement over the tannoy and tell us to see a steward or go home.

I agree, but people just can't be doing without their data connections.

I don't want to go to a match and then spend ages on my phone fecking about with data, but I do like to be able to get score updates from other matches, and occasionally do other stuff on it.

Not enough to give too much of a shit that my network - T-mobile - has next to no data coverage at the ground, though, as it's so saturated.

This whole 4G thing, though, needing a 4G capable phone and appropriate contract, fuck that.

[pauliewalnuts]

Oh, and another thing, I never understand why so many people go to gigs and then spend so much of their time there watching it through their phone as they record it, shakey handed, low quality audio clips recorded for posterity.

[Somniloquism]

Went to see the SF Giants lose at home to the Miami Marlins two days ago. They provide free wi fi in all areas of AT&T park and it works very well.

Don't think we're quite ready for that here yet.

Wifi is so cheaply provided over there, you can even get free wifi access if you buy a hotdog from a street vendor. Plus it might have been a perk of allowing the stadium to be named after the American equivalent of BT.
But to provide decent wifi pipe for 40,000 people once every two weeks and only needed 9 months a year would be quite expensive for the club unless you want to be sitting in the Talk Talk Stadium.