The carrier’s stunt demonstrates a novel way to use 5G to improve audience members’ concert experiences.
Mixhalo, a company that broadcasts musician audio from soundboards directly to smartphones via an app, has used T-5G Mobile’s network to send that audio to phones faster than the sound from the speakers reaches audience ears.
It’s clearly a ploy by the carrier to flex its telecom muscles. However, it is a novel use of 5G to improve the concert experience for audience members.
Aside from increasing signal speed in sports stadiums, there haven’t been many interesting ways that next-generation mobile networks have improved live events.
Mixhalo is one of a dozen startups in the most recent class of T-5G Mobile’s Open Innovation Lab, which fosters new ways to use 5G networks.
Mixhalo’s technology can send audio over Wi-Fi and cellular networks, which may be more reliable and faster than 5G networks.
Around 500 T-Mobile employees gathered in the outdoor plaza at the carrier’s headquarters in Bellevue, Washington, downloaded the Mixhalo app, and simultaneously heard the show through their headphones and the stage’s speakers.
Mixhalo co-founder Ann Marie Simpson-Einziger, a classical violinist who has toured with bands like Jethro Tull and collaborated on film soundtracks with Hans Zimmer, as well as singer Jordyn Simone (current competitor on this season of The Voice) and TikTok musician Liza Kaye, performed.
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