Manchester City fans will be pleased to hear that their home stadium is about to get WiFi. The football club yesterday announced its plans to turn Eithad Stadium into 'the most technologically fan-friendly football stadium,' with the installation of a WiFi system from Cisco.
Cisco's Connected Stadium Wi-Fi solution will be installed in the Man City stadium in the coming weeks and delivers high speed wireless access to those present in and around the stadium footprint. Powered by O2, the hope is that fans will use the access to share their football experience via social networking website. What's not clear is if fans will be able to access other areas of the web or if they'll be restricted to just social networking and Manchester City-related content.
WiFi aside, the football club also announced that it's working on an application called StadiumVision Mobile. Though Manchester City didn't go into great detail, it did say that the app would deliver live video and event information with little delay, as well as multiple other channels, which could include a replay channel, an alternate angle view channel and a channel for stats, trivia and games.