Mobilizing the Magic at the Walt Disney World Resort

AT&T and Disney have recently teamed up to improve the network coverage around the Walt Disney World and Disneyland Resorts. AT&T recently sent us an update:

"As a follow up to AT&T’s announcement last July around its partnership with Disney Parks to become the official wireless provider for Walt Disney World Resort and Disneyland Resort, I wanted to let you know that AT&T officially activated a combination of 3G and 4G LTE technologies for the parks.

The Walt Disney World and Disneyland resorts are the first places to ever have outdoor Distributed Antenna Systems (oDAS) and indoor DAS (iDAS), repeaters and small cells deployed by AT&T on a large scale at one location. The goal here is to help bolster the company’s network coverage.

The small cells have provided coverage boosts in the most challenging of areas, including tunnels used by cast members (in costumes) to travel around the park in an effort to remain hidden from guests. In terms of future progress, the company plans to deploy additional cell sites across the Walt Disney World Resort property.

AT&T’s work is far from done though. In effort to continually provide the best coverage for its customers, AT&T plans to deploy an additional 10 cell sites across the Walt Disney World Resort property as well as actively bring wireless connectively to each new area that gets developed. If you want more information (or enjoy the techie side of things), visit AT&T’s dedicated blog post here."

Here's the short (but interesting) video included in the aforementioned blog post:

This is definitely a great news for the Walt Disney World and Disneyland parks. Guests will certainly appreciate having a better cell-phone service, especially in the Magic Kingdom Park area, since it was known to be problematic. What do you think?

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