With the biggest trade show in the telecoms calendar kicking off next Monday, here’s a sneak peak of what some of the main European telco groups will be showcasing in the halls of La Fira in Barcelona.
Spanish incumbent Telefónica has shared details of a pilot project designed to address some of the practicalities of commercial drone services.
UK incumbent BT has the UK delivery sector in its sights with its new IoT national roaming SIM.
BT has teamed up with Stratospheric Platforms Ltd (SPL) to trial HAPS-based technology with a view to boosting rural mobile coverage.
5G mmWave is being hailed as an enabler for things like fixing congestion issues in crowded spaces and revolutionising farming – but wasn’t vanilla 5G supposed to have already done that, and more?
The Drone Delivery Group has submitted a white paper to the government urging changes in established air, sea and land transport regulations that could stifle the burgeoning drone sector in the UK.
UK telecoms group BT is investing £5 million into Reading based UTM (Unified Traffic Management) software firm Altitude Angel as it looks to accelerate development of ‘Project Skyway.’
Finnish kit vendor Nokia is working with German testing and measurement firm Rohde & Schwarz to figure out whether it can add software-based network measurement tools into its drones platform.
A project designed to explore the use of drones to monitor key pieces of infrastructure has won funding from the UK Research and Innovation agency.
Chicago-based UScellular has successfully tested 5G connectivity between its live network and a drone.
UK comms regulator Ofcom is proposing a new license for commercial drone operators following trials that include drone delivered post by the Royal Mail.
Science and Innovation Minister George Freeman has announced a £2 million investment across 13 space projects.
Virgin Media O2 is parading its latest 5G use case, a tethered drone designed to help the emergency services.
US mobile chip giant Qualcomm has made its bid to dominate drones as it already does smartphones with the launch of the Flight Platform.
Also in today’s EMEA regional round-up: Sparkle turns to Infinera to power 400G services; auctions ahoy in French overseas territories; EE puts on its headphones and Hawaiian shirt in the cause of 5G.
In a recent interview BT CEO Philip Jansen offered some insights into his thinking about the near-term strategy for the UK telecoms group.
UK incumbent BT is keen to capitalise on all the drone hype, so it is leading a consortium that plans to set up the country’s first commercial air corridor for testing drones.
The utopia in which swarms of drones do everything for us can only be achieved if you can stop them colliding. Thankfully Vodafone and Ericsson are on the case.
The increasing complexity of telecom networks and services and the exponential growth in the amount of data generated have gone beyond the capacity of manual calculation. Telecom operators therefore are increasingly compelled to embrace AI to help them properly manage their networks, services, and customers. This Telecoms.com Intelligence monthly briefing aims to separate noise from truth about AI and discuss how the communications industry can benefit from AI while avoiding potential pitfalls.
Drone technology offers a powerful way for enterprises to conduct remote asset inspections during and after the Covid-19 pandemic.
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