The International Olympic Committee has run into a bit of a spectrum bandwidth problem at the London Olympics. It seems that spectators at some of the Olympic venues are tweeting so much, that it’s squeezing out the signals for essential event related communications.
The problem came to a head at the men’s cycling road race, with up to a million spectators lining the route. Massive bandwidth use by fans sending tweets and watching live coverage of the event on their phones, made it difficult for the TV networks to get telemetry data about the positions of the various riders. This then had a snowballing effect with fans tweeting their disgust at the lousy information being delivered to their trackside phone viewing.
via DVICE
July 30, 2012
