{"id":492425,"date":"2025-10-12T01:57:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T01:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/492425\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T01:57:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T01:57:12","slug":"glasgow-city-council-finally-owns-up-to-a-major-problem-at-celtic-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/492425\/","title":{"rendered":"Glasgow City Council finally owns up to a major problem at Celtic Park."},"content":{"rendered":"

There was an interesting report on 67 Hail Hail today<\/a> about the Wi-Fi and mobile signal situation at Celtic Park. This is a subject that has probably driven more supporters half mad than any other minor irritation in Scottish football.<\/p>\n

Every matchday, you\u2019ll see fans waving their phones about, walking the concourse, or leaning over railings trying to catch a bar of signal like it\u2019s the 1990s again.<\/p>\n

For years we\u2019ve moaned about it, and most of us have blamed the club for not doing more. \u201cSort the Wi-Fi, Celtic!\u201d has been a familiar refrain. But it turns out, for once, that this one isn\u2019t actually the club\u2019s fault.<\/p>\n

Most Read on The Celtic Blog<\/p>\n

As 67 Hail Hail reports, \u201cGlasgow City Region has been working with mobile network operators to improve coverage around the city\u2019s four major sports venues \u2014 Celtic Park, Hampden, Ibrox, and the Emirates Arena \u2014 after identifying significant dead zones in the east end.\u201d That\u2019s right: of the four big venues in the Glasgow area, Celtic Park currently has the lowest telecom coverage of the lot.<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t about bias or the board. It\u2019s not about Celtic being asleep at the wheel. It\u2019s a structural issue \u2014 the east end of Glasgow is sitting in a telecom blackspot. That\u2019s not something the club can fix by itself, no matter how many routers it installs.<\/p>\n

The good news is that this is finally being tackled.<\/p>\n

\u201cA new tranche of work is planned to enhance the signal around Celtic Park,\u201d the report explains. Discussions are ongoing between operators, Glasgow City Region, and local authorities. It\u2019s about time too, because anyone who\u2019s ever tried to blog, post, or podcast live from a match knows how impossible it is right now.<\/p>\n

Trying to upload a photo or send an update during the game is an exercise in pure frustration.<\/p>\n

Even just checking the halftime scores elsewhere can take several minutes. The club\u2019s own Wi-Fi system helps a little but with sixty thousand people in one place, the available bandwidth is virtually zero. Once you\u2019re off the internal network, you might as well be trying to get a signal from the Moon.<\/p>\n

I can tell you personally, as someone who covers Celtic games for the blog and podcast, it\u2019s brutal.<\/p>\n

There have been afternoons where I couldn\u2019t get a single post up until I\u2019d left the ground. Everything just jammed. The signal collapse inside and around the stadium has been a running joke for years. Except it isn\u2019t funny when you\u2019re trying to do your job or even just message someone who isn\u2019t there.<\/p>\n

Now, to some people, this might not sound like a big deal. But if you\u2019ve ever tried to keep a conversation going during a match, or share updates with friends and family who couldn\u2019t get tickets, you know how frustrating it is. Even something as simple as placing a quick bet or checking a VAR decision replay can turn into an impossible task.<\/p>\n

Yes, there are bigger issues facing Celtic than Wi-Fi. Nobody\u2019s pretending otherwise.<\/p>\n

But this is part of the wider matchday experience, and that does matter. Because right now, Celtic Park on a Saturday can feel oddly flat. As I wrote in a previous piece, it\u2019s become little more than a case of showing up, sitting down, and watching the game.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no atmosphere around the edges, no real sense of engagement or entertainment before or after.<\/p>\n

If you want people to feel connected \u2014 literally and figuratively \u2014 then you\u2019ve got to fix these basics. Better signal might seem like a small thing, but it\u2019s these incremental improvements that make the matchday experience better.<\/p>\n

So, if this partnership between Glasgow City Region, the mobile operators, and the club can finally deliver proper coverage around Celtic Park, then I can only applaud everyone involved. If Celtic has been quietly pushing for this behind the scenes, they deserve credit for that too.<\/p>\n

We are a global club in a digital era. Fans expect to be able to stream, post, and connect in real time. If Celtic Park becomes a place where that\u2019s actually possible \u2014 where journalists can upload content, fans can share the atmosphere, and people can interact without having to walk halfway down London Road \u2014 that\u2019s progress.<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s exactly the kind of progress we need to see more of.<\/p>\n

The club has to modernize the matchday experience. We\u2019ve heard talk about a new Head of Commercial Development. Well, here\u2019s an area crying out for that kind of attention. Improving how supporters experience Celtic Park, from food to Wi-Fi to entertainment, should be part of that role.<\/p>\n

Because ultimately, it\u2019s about respect for the supporters. Tens of thousands of people pay serious money to be there, week after week, and the least they should expect is to be able to share that experience with the outside world.<\/p>\n

So, whatever work is about to be done to improve coverage around Celtic Park, bring it on.<\/p>\n

For those of us who work in the digital space around the club, even a ten percent improvement will feel like a giant leap forward. This has been driving us nuts for far too long. A fix is long overdue \u2014 and very, very welcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There was an interesting report on 67 Hail Hail today about the Wi-Fi and mobile signal situation at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":492426,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7826],"tags":[748,918,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-492425","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-glasgow","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-glasgow","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115358717943151538","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}