If you were hoping for high-speed internet to check out-of-town scores, stats, or post on social media from Syracuse football’s home opener on Saturday, you’re going to have to wait a little bit longer.

“Things tend not to happen at the pace that you want," said Andy Adams, chief operating officer for JMA Wireless. "So, we put out there a schedule that we felt we could hit. We’re close but at the end of the day it's just taken a little bit longer than we expected.”

All of the moving parts involved is one of the reasons why this has taken so long.

“Over the last year we’ve been collaborating with JMA Wireless on the instillation and execution of a new DAS in the JMA Wireless Dome," said Jeff Rubin, a special advisor at Syracuse University in Digital Transformation. “Designing and implementing the DAS is complex and it takes coordination not just between Syracuse University and JMA, but it takes coordination efforts with the mobile phone providers."

Those providers are Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile. With more than 300 antennas and 500 radios installed around the Dome, the last step before implementing DAS are the providers coming to SU.

“They need to bring in their equipment that connects to the headend equipment," Adams said. "It’s a lot of work to do that so we typically do that in sequence. You have Verizon come in and then you have the others come in.”

JMA’s new timeline to give Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile customers access to the network is between October and next spring. JMA Wireless believes DAS will be worth the wait.

“When we designed the JMA Dome system, we took a Super Bowl-level approach," said Adams. "The Dome will have more capacity than most NFL stadiums.”

The technology will allow the school to explore new concepts. Those include mobile ordering to consession stands and showing instant replay through phones.