[EricH]

Originally Posted by PaW

That's too bad, but understandable. It's going to be hard to enforce. Anyone in the crowd NOT associated with a team and/or unfamiliar with the rules can come into the venue with a Cradlepoint or a MiFi and set up a hotspot without knowing that doing so is prohibited. Imagine the already inconsistent pat-down procedures at the venue entrance, now with the added responsibility of checking for mobile hotspot devices.

The field guys can figure out what networks are around pretty easily; they were checking last year. Then it's just a matter of finding the source router and politely requesting that they shut down the network.

Just a smidge harder than checking for IR coming from the crowd back in 2008...