At Union Station fans holler as the Denver Broncos team members drive by during the Super Bowl victory parade. (Photo by Cyrus McCrimmon/ The Denver Post)
During Tuesday’s Denver Broncos Super Bowl 50 victory parade, consumed 3.1 terabytes of data by taking photos and videos, texting friends and possibly even calling someone.
And that was just Verizon’s customers.
Verizon said that massive amount of data — equivalent to 517 Verizon customers maxing out on — occurred between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. Festivities of the Broncos Super Bowl 50 victory parade started at 10 a.m. with music, with the parade at noon and the rally about 30 minutes later.
But if you were one of those million people in downtown, you know wireless service was a challenge. Verizon may be ranked , but it too struggled even with its 19 existing LTE sites plus 10 extra portable cell towers wheeled in for the event.
“With the number of people attending the Broncos parade and rally on Tuesday, there were connection spikes on the network, which could have resulted in some temporarily delayed connections. Imagine every car in Denver trying to turn onto Colfax at the same time – traffic will slow down, and some cars won’t be able to turn onto the street,” explained Meagan Dorsch, a Verizon spokesperson.
“In the end, we believe our network performed very well and the proof is the 3 TB of data our customers were able to share. We know this is important to our customers and their network of Broncos fans.”
Verizon earlier said that during the Super Bowl, its customers at Levi’s Stadium in California. At the last home Broncos game when the team won the AFC Championship, Verizon users .
