With thousands of fans crammed into a stadium local mobile network capacity is quickly exceeded during football matches leading to poor connectivity, but TribeHive has developed technology that can build a network directly between phones and use it as the basis for distributing data.
The technology is being used in six new smartphone apps being introduced by clubs in the Football League, including one Barclays Premier League team QPR and five Sky Bet Championship teams – Birmingham, Bolton, Brighton and Hove, Middlesbrough and Watford – for the first two months of the 2014/2015 season.
The iOS and Android apps are available for fans to download ahead of the first matches of the season and will deliver match-related content, player statistics, live results from other fixtures, travel information, and social media feeds to football fans in stadiums, much more reliably than those seeking information through a traditional data...