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sixty five thousand people a day packed the three day outside lands music festival in san francisco paying upwards of five hundred dollars to see acts like Paul McCartney nine inch nails and the red hot chili peppers but music fans who didn't want to fight the crowds pay for tickets or visit San Francisco could still rock out from anywhere for free you basically have the best seat in the house you can watch as if you were in front row you would back up to the top and let's play one more time live video streaming platform Ustream and springboard productions provided a live multistage webcast that could be viewed online and on mobile devices a similar webcast of the Bonnaroo Music Festival racked up 11 million views worldwide festival organizers plan to do more of these free concert webcasts as a way to hook future paying customers people can wash at home get a taste of the amazing stuff that's happening out here then they'll be even more apt to come to this festival and with five cameras each at three stages feeding three video production trucks festival-goers didn't have to miss a beat either let's say you're watching nine inch nails you want to see somebody on another stage that you know at the same time but don't want to lose your seat pull out your mobile phone your tablet and watch that experience with the live stream I can be watching the show on this dais and keeping an eye on a different stage right on my phone but the ability to watch live webcasts on mobile requires a strong cell signal and that's something that's usually spotty at big events that's because fans use their mobile devices at festivals much more than their regular daily usage about eighty-five percent more because they're streaming video they're shooting pictures a lot of its data and a little bit of its voice AT&T and Verizon erected additional cell phone towers called cows or cell on wheels all throughout the park they more than doubled what they provided last year with a special focus on LTE for data essentially we added another superhighway to our network particularly the the five beam technology each beam you think of is a highway so you have five beams what's great about coming to a live concert is sharing the experience with people around you outside lambs organizers hope the live stream will be the same for a worldwide audience these people at the event become more connected to people in the outside world who are at home you're going to see a lot of intermixing of conversation and opportunities you know custom would be extended beyond just the people that are at the actual ground something that should be music to fans ears I'm Mollywood in San Francisco cnet for CBS News