Private 5G for Venues, Stadia and Event Spaces
Private 5G for stadia, sports clubs, racecourses, motor racing circuits, arenas, and conference and exhibition centres. Payments and ticketing that keep working at kick-off, crowd safety and CCTV across the whole site, and connectivity you can sell to exhibitors and hospitality guests.
Key reasons to work with us
We are a UK private-5G specialist with live networks in the ground and a price point built for British business.
A proven track record
We run live networks across the UK today, including stadia, city-centre neutral host and pop-up 5G at festivals such as Priddy, so we know what happens to a network when the crowd arrives.
Genuinely vendor-agnostic
We bring a recipe of cost-effective, tried-and-tested equipment but stay vendor-agnostic, working across mobile cores and 5G radio (OpenRAN or all-in-one) to cover a ground, an arena or an exhibition hall to suit its budget.
Built for small and medium business
We move quickly, size the network to the venue rather than to a national stadium, and price for UK clubs and regional venues, well below the major integrators.
Stadia, sports grounds, racetracks, conference and exhibition centres share an awkward connectivity profile: quiet for most of the week, then tens of thousands of people arrive at once and every card terminal, ticket scanner, steward radio and broadcast feed competes for the same overloaded public network. WiFi can be made to work in the concourse, but rarely in the stands, the car parks or the outer halls. Private 5G gives the venue its own managed signal for operations, with the option to carry the four public networks as a neutral host.
What Private 5G Enables
One managed network across the stands, concourse, halls and car parks.
Matchday Payments & Ticketing
Card terminals, handheld ticket scanners and concession kiosks fail exactly when the gates open, because they share the public network with the crowd. A private network reserves capacity for the tills and turnstiles, so the half-time queue keeps moving.
Crowd Safety, CCTV & Martyn's Law
High-bandwidth CCTV and body-worn video from anywhere on the site, push-to-talk for stewards and security, and the audit trail that the Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Act now expects of larger venues, all on one managed network.
Exhibitor, Media & Event Connectivity
Exhibition halls and conference suites are rebuilt for every event. A private 5G network gives exhibitors, broadcasters and AV crews a reliable connection without cabling each stand, and turns connectivity into a line on the rate card rather than a cost.
Fan Connectivity & Neutral Host
Visitors blame the venue, not their operator, when their phone stops working. Shared small cells can carry EE, Three, O2 and Vodafone across the stands and concourse, alongside the venue's own private network.
Who Runs UK Venues
From Premier League grounds to county showgrounds, most UK venues earn their living on a handful of very busy days, and that is when the public networks let them down.
Football, rugby and cricket grounds
The 92 Premier League and EFL clubs, Premiership and Championship rugby, and the 18 first-class county cricket grounds, most of which also run conference and hospitality businesses on non-match days.
Conference and exhibition centres
NEC Group in Birmingham, ExCeL London, SEC Glasgow, ACC Liverpool, Manchester Central, EICC Edinburgh, ICC Wales and Harrogate Convention Centre, plus the many regional and university-owned venues below them.
Racecourses and motor racing circuits
The Jockey Club (Cheltenham, Aintree, Epsom, Newmarket and others) and Arena Racing Company each operate over a dozen racecourses; MotorSport Vision runs Brands Hatch, Donington Park, Oulton Park, Snetterton and Cadwell Park, alongside Silverstone, Goodwood, Thruxton and Castle Combe. All are large, open sites where the public networks rarely cope on race days, and circuits add live timing, marshal communications and trackside video to the load.
Arenas, showgrounds and sports clubs
Indoor arenas, county showgrounds and the larger members' sports and golf clubs, which host weddings, conferences and events alongside their sport and often sit in rural coverage gaps.
Sources: Business Visits & Events Partnership , Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Act 2025
Related Reading
Open RAN at Twickenham: Handling 82,000 Rugby Fans on a Multi-Vendor Network
The 5G MoDE project proved Open RAN can handle peak stadium demand during Six Nations rugby at Twickenham, with real customer traffic on a live VMO2 network.
Private 5G for Festivals and Outdoor Events: Keeping the Coffee Queue Moving
Thousands of people, a muddy field, and a coffee trader whose card reader has just gone offline. Why private 5G is becoming the connectivity backbone for UK festivals and outdoor events.
A Gigabit in the heart of Somerset: Connectivity at Priddy Folk Festival
Two thousand people, a field on the Mendips, and traders who cannot sell an ice cream without a card terminal. How we beamed 5G across the site, for the second year running.
Common questions
Why does mobile signal fail at stadiums and busy venues?
The public networks are sized for the normal population of the area, not for 30,000 people arriving within an hour. The nearest masts saturate, and indoor areas such as concourses, exhibition halls and hospitality suites are often poorly covered even on a quiet day. Card terminals, ticket scanners and steward devices on the same networks fail at exactly the moment they are needed.
Is WiFi not enough for a venue?
WiFi works well in a concourse or a conference suite, but covering open stands, car parks, outer halls and a racecourse properly takes a great many access points, each needing cabling and power. It is also contended: guests and operational devices end up on the same airwaves. A private 5G network covers large open areas from far fewer radios and can reserve capacity for the tills, turnstiles and security kit.
Can the network carry EE, Three, O2 and Vodafone for visitors?
Yes. Shared small cells can carry the four public operators as a neutral host, so visitors keep a usable signal in the stands and halls, alongside the venue's own private network for operations. The two can be deployed together or in stages, starting with whichever carries the stronger business case.
How does this help with Martyn's Law?
The Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Act 2025 asks larger venues to have procedures for evacuation, invacuation, lockdown and communicating with the public. Those depend on CCTV, steward communications and public-address systems that keep working when the public networks are overloaded. A private network gives security and stewarding teams capacity that the crowd cannot take away.
What about racecourses and motor racing circuits?
Racetracks are some of the hardest venues to cover: a mile or more of track, grandstands, paddocks and car parks spread over open countryside, often at the edge of public coverage. On race days the same network needs to carry betting and bar payments, live timing and results, marshal and steward communications, and trackside video. A handful of well-placed private 5G radios covers the whole site, where WiFi would need cabling around the entire circuit.
Is this over-engineered for a club or regional venue?
A fair question; most of the headline venue deployments to date have been national stadiums. The equipment cost has fallen substantially, and a club ground, racecourse or regional conference centre typically needs a handful of small cells and a compact core. We build the business case against what the venue currently loses to failed transactions, WiFi maintenance and hired-in event connectivity.
Ready to connect your venue?
Whether you run a football ground, a racecourse, a motor racing circuit, an arena or an exhibition centre, we can build a private 5G network that fits your scale and budget.