Canada\u2019s F1 weekend is right around the corner on May 24, and there are going to be a lot of motorsport fans in the city for the Grand Prix.<\/p>\n
With that in mind, Bell has announced that it has improved its mobile networks ahead of the race weekend in order to handle the influx of usage.<\/p>\n
Essentially, Bell boosted overall network capacity in the city by 20 per cent, focusing upgrades on key Grand Prix sites, enhanced connectivity in the high-traffic fan zone Village area (food tents and visitor services), and adding extra spectrum in the Paddock and Grandstands to boost speed and responsiveness.<\/p>\n
The telecom giant also noted that it has added 81 new cell sites since 2024, with 56 more planned for this year.<\/p>\n
Bell has also brought in Cell-on-wheels and put them in the paddocks, grand stands, and southern stands to add more localized capacity. Bell\u2019s main competitor, Rogers,\u00a0used a similar strategy recently,<\/a> deploying Cells on Wheels and Cells on Light around Toronto for the 2026 FIFA World Cup to handle peak network usage.<\/p>\n Alongside these upgrades,\u00a0 Bell has expanded the use of high-value spectrum assets to manage peak usage, and support what the telecom giant describes as \u201cseamless streaming, gaming, and real-time sharing.\u201d I imagine most of the usage will come from users Facetiming loved ones and accessing social media.<\/p>\n MobileSyrup may earn a commission from purchases made via our links, which helps fund the journalism we provide free on our website. These links do not influence our editorial content. Support us here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canada\u2019s F1 weekend is right around the corner on May 24, and there are going to be a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54228,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[24053,17535,1817,50],"class_list":["post-54227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-bell","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}