Success Case
Manchester City’s Etihad Stadium is Fully Connected
UK
Always aiming to provide the best experience to their passionate “Cityzens”, Manchester City has joined forces with Cellnex in order to provide world class mobile coverage to their 55.000 spectators at the emblematic Etihad Stadium. Cellnex is the ideal partner for this ambitious project due to our multi-operator, end to end solutions. We act as the single point of contact in midst of many players and stakeholders, including all major MNOs, regulatory bodies and Manchester City’s own organisation.
We provide full mobile coverage for the entirety of Manchester City’s facilities while guaranteeing optimal capacity and coverage inside the stadium. Such a solution allows Manchester City to be at the forefront of the best stadium experience for their fans while boasting technological readiness for ever growing data demand of these upcoming years.
Challenges
Manchester City needed to boost mobile coverage and capacity to give fans the best experience at the Etihad.
Solution
Cellnex deployed a MIMO solution with 188 antennas, divided into 36 sectors, to maximise mobile coverage.
Greg Swimer
_Chief Technology Officer at City Football Group
Mick Goulding
_Head of Commercial at Cellnex UK