Vodafone UK – Total Mobile Data Usage Hit 64TB During Wimbledon
Mobile network operator Vodafone UK has revealed that 532,651 tennis-fans attended The Championships 2023 and tracking shows that over 64 TeraBytes (up by 36.5% from 2022) of mobile broadband data were consumed by Wimbledon-goers during the two-week tournament, which was also one of their first roll-outs of 5G Standalone tech.
Vodafone recorded its busiest day on Sunday 9th July with 5,619GB (GigaBytes) of carried data, when tennis fans watched the likes of Novak Djokovic, Jannik Sinner, Elina Svitolina and Marketa Vondroušová. Elsewhere, some 770GB was uploaded and 3,980GB downloaded during the Ladies’ and Gentlemen’s Singles Finals this year.
The operator also used the event to trial their new 5G-powered GiveVision headsets on Centre Court and No.1 Court at Wimbledon this year, which meant that visually impaired fans could watch live tennis like never before. Live footage is streamed from local TV cameras over Vodafone 5G to the GiveVision headsets – which enhance the footage to suit the person’s specific sight profile. Good stuff, even if it does make you look like a zombified Dr Who monster (pictured).
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Only 64TB for half a million people? That’s barely 100MB each. That seems oddly low.
And 5.6TB across the entire network was its busiest day ever?
Are these numbers definitely correct?
Not everyone is on Vodafone, that could be part of it
500k visitors, so on a simplistic ecen split between operators, that’s 125k Vodafone users, so 4-500Mb each which does seem more likely.
As I read it, the 5.6Tb is through the cells/network serving Wimbledon not the network as a whole
I was lucky enough to be in court 1 on the opening day. I had full 5G on Vodafone, but it wasn’t great. Sometimes it would be fast and responsive so I could stream iPlayer to watch other courts. But I noticed during breaks between games when spectators would check their phones, the data would sometimes stop working.
I switched over to the other sim on my phone which uses EE and the data worked flawlessly all day.