Ericsson and UScellular make tentative progress with 5G drone test
Chicago-based UScellular has successfully tested 5G connectivity between its live network and a drone.
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.
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Drone technology offers a powerful way for enterprises to conduct remote asset inspections during and after the Covid-19 pandemic.
Regulators are now starting to partner with drone manufacturers, allowing limited testing of Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) flights.
Participants at the virtual 6G Wireless Summit shared their thinking on what 6G can do and what research is needed to get the underlying technologies in place.
In a couple of words; not a lot.
Pessimism from the telcos doesn’t seemed to have dampened the enthusiasm of Huawei, as the team demonstrate flying taxis might be doable sooner than we think.
BT and Facebook have announced the three winning start-ups who will be admitted into the UK Telecom Infra Project Ecosystem Acceleration Centre (TEAC).
Facebook has completed the second step of its claimed quest to democratise the internet, with a second successful test of its drone designed to deliver connectivity to the world’s most remote places.
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have taken the bold approach of creating a kamikaze drone to help the development of the technology.
AT&T has announced it has almost completed its first phase of research and development in the big, wide world of drones.
EE has announced it will soon be launching some very Googlish-looking connectivity balloons and drones to bolster its public safety LTE rollout.
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