MobileAccess Networks Delivers Seamless, Multi-Service Wireless Connectivity throughout the World’s Largest Sporting Venues VIENNA, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MobileAccess Networks, an enterprise wireless innovator, announced today the installation of its Universal Wireless Network at Ford Field in Detroit, Michigan, and at University of Phoenix Stadium, the new home of the Arizona Cardinals in Glendale, Arizona. With these deployments, MobileAccess has solidified its position as the premier platform provider of seamless, multi-service wireless solutions for large-scale sporting venues. Large sports stadiums are built with heavy construction materials that can impede the flow of radio frequency (RF) signals, significantly degrading the wireless voice and data services that originate from outside or inside the facility. The resulting effect is that wireless coverage is weak or simply unavailable in many areas of these large venues, depriving staff, media, vendors and first responders from the wireless communications they depend on. The MobileAccess Universal Wireless Network was developed to overcome these coverage issues, providing a single wireless infrastructure that can support multiple wireless services, applications and devices, while maintaining the flexibility to accommodate future wireless requirements. With the deployments at Ford Field and University of Phoenix Stadium, MobileAccess has now installed its Universal Wireless Network at four Super Bowl stadiums: Reliant Park in Houston, Texas, prior to Super Bowl XXXVIII in 2004; ALLTEL Stadium in Jacksonville, Florida, prior to Super Bowl XXXIX in 2005; at Ford Field prior to Super Bowl XL in 2006; and at University of Phoenix Stadium where it will be leveraged for Super Bowl XLII in 2008. Following the Super Bowls, the MobileAccess infrastructure remains in place, delivering continued benefits for players, staff, fans and the media at future NFL games and other large-scale events held at the stadiums. At Ford Field, facility managers selected Gulf Coast Real Estate Consultants, LLC, to design and install an integrated, multi-carrier wireless infrastructure similar to systems they deployed at ALLTEL Stadium and Reliant Park for the two previous Super Bowls. Gulf Coast selected the MobileAccess Universal Wireless Network as the technology solution of choice based on its unique capabilities and proven success in the previous Super Bowl deployments. The MobileAccess solution provides seamless wireless connectivity throughout the 1.3 million square foot stadium, ensuring that the thousands of fans, media, facility staff, vendors and event personnel can use their wireless devices, such as Verizon and Sprint cellular phones, BlackBerry devices, WLAN-enabled laptops, PDAs, pagers and two-way radios anywhere during events like Super Bowl XL.
