AT&T: Kentucky Derby weekend DAS traffic jumps again, with 19 TB used

Big sporting events continue to show no end in the growing demand for mobile bandwidth needs, as AT&T’s traffic for this year’s Kentucky Derby weekend of events jumped far ahead of last year’s total. With nearly 19 terabytes of cellular data used by its customers over the big race weekend at famed Churchill Downs, AT&T eclipsed last year’s mark of 13.6 TB.

Just two years ago, AT&T saw “only” 11.4 TB of data used on its networks for Derby weekend, meaning that in that time the traffic demands have just about doubled. We didn’t hear from DAS operator Mobilitie prior to this year’s events but it’s a good bet that the neutral-host DAS at Churchill Downs underwent some more enhancements prior to this year’s races. We have not yet received any stats from other wireless carriers for the weekend’s events.