Derby Crowds to Benefit from Verizon Network Upgrades at Churchill Downs

Verizon Wireless, a technology leader with the nation’s largest and most reliable 4G LTE network, has beefed up its network at Churchill Downs with new “small cell” technology and other upgrades to handle the burgeoning traffic generated by the hundreds of thousands of Derby week guests who want to share messages, photos and videos via their wireless devices. On Derby day 2014, 4G LTE traffic on the Verizon Wireless network increased 224 percent over Derby day 2013, and Verizon customers consumed 1.37 terabytes of data.