Verizon is showcasing its data throughput prowess this week after the Sunday's Super Bowl LX match in San Francisco, where the carrier says that it provided median download speeds of 2.16 Gbps at the height of the action.
Verizon claims the data throughput it offered during this year's Super Bowl Sunday was the result of "nearly 200 individual network projects across the Bay Area"
Verizon has just given a snapshot of the data throughput it powered via its dense network in the Bay Area:
- The network's customers used 40.32 TB of data in the vicinity of the Levi’s Stadium on Super Bowl Sunday, which constitutes a 6 percent year-over-year increase.
- Around 60 percent of the stadium's 70,823 attendees were on the Verizon network.
- Across San Francisco, Verizon customers consumed 39.788 TB of data during the match.
- During the kickoff and halftime show, which are often considered the climactic moments of the match, the network was able to offer median download speeds of 2.16 Gbps and median upload speeds of 461 Mbps.
Do note that Verizon is the official 5G network of the NFL. As such, the network claims that the data throughput it was able to offer during the Super Bowl match was the result of "years of preparation and nearly 200 individual network projects across the Bay Area."
Of course, Verizon might have proactively promoted its data throughput prowess at this year's Super Bowl a bit too enthusiastically to paper over any lingering doubts as to its network's stability after a widespread outage back in January led to widespread havoc, prompting the carrier to offer a $20 credit to those affected.
Bear in mind that Verizon's $20 credit was 4x the amount that AT&T offered to its customers back in February 2024 when it suffered a sizable network outage of its own.
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