Election Night Data Usage

The candidates’ Election Night events saw plenty of red, white, blue—and data too.

Both presidential nominees held Election Night events in New York City to monitor coverage. Hillary Clinton held her event at the convention center in midtown Manhattan. And the Trump campaign was at a hotel in midtown Manhattan.

There is no surprise data usage at each venue was through the roof. The events used a combined total of 1.3 Terabytes of data.

Let’s break it down.

• Hillary Clinton’s Election Night event at the convention center in midtown Manhattan used 816 GB of data; equal to 2.3 million election night selfies.*
• Donald Trump’s Election Night event at the hotel in midtown Manhattan used 528 GB of data; equal to 1.5 million election night selfies. **

From the first vote, to the close of the polls, it was an exciting night in politics. Check out how much data our customers used at each Election Night event during the biggest moments of the night.  

*Total data usage by AT&T customers on the in-venue Distributed Antenna System (DAS) networks at the hotel in midtown Manhattan from 6am on 11/8 through 2am on 11/9.

*Total data usage by AT&T customers on the in-venue Distributed Antenna System (DAS) networks at the convention center in midtown Manhattan from 6am on 11/8 through 2am on 11/9.