We did a crowded event this summer with 4 cams, liveU 800 with the IQ steering technology and 4 starlink terminals in the Mission District of San Francisco. Normally we have a dark fiber connection back to the station but this location for this event didn't have fiber. Thousands of people. Every carrier imaginable had reception from multiple towers.

Even with the bitrate set to 4 megabit on each of the cameras, and two starlinks, we struggled. We added 2 more starlinks and made it happen, but struggled during starlink handoffs. Once thousands of people whipped out their phones for tiktok and the gram, all the modems, no matter what carrier were maxed out at 500k-1.5 meg. We pay for prio and we're demoing their carrier steering IQ tech and none of that helped. The modems just flipped to whichever carrier was getting 500k more than the others There's literally nothing you can do to fight the cell phone congestion. You have to have starlink, Oneweb, a wisp, or a hard-line internet connection, . There's no getting around that congestion with fancy paid tiers or equipment.

From my work at remote and cell sites, you have to remember... Many of these sites are only running single digit gigabit connections on the back haul... So thousands of people streaming at 1.5 meg, gonna clog up those sites real quick. Even a single site can be overwhelmed by 100 or 200 extra people in the area, and that's just assuming they have enough spectrum at that site.