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Will cost the club approx £250,000 to install the equipment necessary to give a decent signal inside the stadium. Something which likely has zero benefit to the club themselves and won’t drive revenue.
A lot of bigger clubs have solved the situation by having sponsors or partners install the necessary equipment at no cost to the club.
The club attempted to go down that route with the West stand sponsor however the sponsor failed to provide the service promised.
Quite rightly the club don’t have it high on their list of priorities. If a sponsor came along and were willing to do it, it likely would have happened by now.

The club haven’t updated the tannoy system due to the costs involved. They’re preferring to wait and include it as part of the East stand improvement as that will naturally need a tannoy system installed too. Doing the whole stadium at the same time will be cost effective. Something similar could likely be done with regards to wifi perhaps. No point spending £250k now and then another £150k in 2/3 years if you can just spend £300k once. Similar principles for a lot of planned improvements I imagine.

The East will be a game changer for the whole of BR

£250,000 and the rest.

 

[Tangerine Tractor]

Itce been talking to Yayzi a lot in the past year. Yayzi were going to supply stadium WiFi along with Comms infrastructure for the stadium, which was part of the west stand sponsorship deal.
But something happened to the company contracted to do the physical cabling, and basically knocked yayzi back to ground zero and they've had to find new partners to work with and re-plan their entire cabling roll-out, putting their entire business plan back a couple of years, hence the sudden cancelling of the stand sponsorship - no point in advertising if you're not in a position to provide a service.
Now, BT have started rolling out ducting for fibre cabling across the Fylde, so other providers like yayzi can begin to piggy back on that and use the new ducting to install their cabling.
I really hope they ride out this setback and establish themselves - what they can offer is a faster, cheaper alternative to the major ISPs, and the flexibility to provide community based connectivity solutions to benefit everyone.

 

[Matesrates]

I've always used the NHS Wi-Fi - just register and it's pretty decent on a match day.
BTW - we're not alone .. Man United fans have wi-fi as one of their main gripes about Old Trafford.
Of course that many people in such a close confined space means 4G has little chance.

That’s interesting, I automatically go to NHS wifi when I go to any medical facility, but it doesn’t happen at the ground, I’ll check it out next time

 

[911_Kirky]

I’d take no wi-if at all over a new tannoy system….. really struggle to hear anything at times, but understand that it’s not a priority.
Couldn’t understand the announcement last match about an abandoned car outside the ground and the reg number I think was -
NE 1 4 ABJ -
Hope all is well

 

[BFC_53]

Not true.

The East development is not linked to onfield success in slightest.

It’s driven by 2 factors. 1 being that the current stand will lose its safety certificate and not be renewed - rendering it derelict and 2 being the new East will be a year round source of revenue to club (regardless of division) which will bring in a seven figure sum above and beyond any figure the East stand can generate from ticket sales alone.

Yes, I don't see how you can ever really link the construction of a stand to league status because the construction will span across more than one season I imagine. We could start building in the championship, get relegated, and be back in the championship when it opens.