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Virgin Media O2 powers 5G emergency services drone

Virgin Media O2 is parading its latest 5G use case, a tethered drone designed to help the emergency services.

• 14 Sep 2021

Qualcomm launches a 5G drone platform

US mobile chip giant Qualcomm has made its bid to dominate drones as it already does smartphones with the launch of the Flight Platform.

• 17 Aug 2021

Eurobites: Amazon’s Prime Air programme enters tailspin in UK – report

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.

• 04 Aug 2021

BT CEO contemplates moves into healthcare and drone sectors

In a recent interview BT CEO Philip Jansen offered some insights into his thinking about the near-term strategy for the UK telecoms group.

• 15 Feb 2021

BT wants an air corridor for drone testing

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.

• 15 Dec 2020

Vodafone and Ericsson try to make sure drones don’t crash into each other

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.

• 25 Nov 2020

How the telecoms industry can get the best out of AI

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.

• 26 Aug 2020

Drones are transforming how telcos inspect towers

Drone technology offers a powerful way for enterprises to conduct remote asset inspections during and after the Covid-19 pandemic.

• 27 Jul 2020

Drones: out of sight, top of mind for telcos

Regulators are now starting to partner with drone manufacturers, allowing limited testing of Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) flights.

• 05 Jun 2020

Consensus on 6G is gradually forming

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.

• 17 Mar 2020

What did we learn from the Tory Party Conference?

In a couple of words; not a lot.

• 01 Oct 2019

Huawei shows flying cars might not be that far away

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.

• 16 Nov 2017

BT and Facebook give cheeky TIP for start-ups of the future

BT and Facebook have announced the three winning start-ups who will be admitted into the UK Telecom Infra Project Ecosystem Acceleration Centre (TEAC).

• 03 Oct 2017

Facebook flies forward with second Aquila connectivity drone test

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.

• 30 Jun 2017

Self-crashing drone helps improve navigation… really, it does

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have taken the bold approach of creating a kamikaze drone to help the development of the technology.

• 15 May 2017

The sky’s the limit for AT&T’s drone ambitions

AT&T has announced it has almost completed its first phase of research and development in the big, wide world of drones.

• 08 May 2017

EE takes to the skies with Googly balloon network

EE has announced it will soon be launching some very Googlish-looking connectivity balloons and drones to bolster its public safety LTE rollout.

• 21 Feb 2017

Verizon aims sky high with Skyward acquisition

Verizon has announced it has purchased Skyward, a private drone software vendor, in an effort to build its capabilities in the fast growing drone market.

• 16 Feb 2017

Amazon answers calls of the hungry with first drone delivery

Amazon has completed its first delivery via an unmanned drone to a customer in Cambridge ordering popcorn and an Amazon Fire TV (surprise, surprise).

• 14 Dec 2016

That’s no moon – DT brings drone defence system online

Deutsche Telekom has been watching Star Wars again. The German telco has completed work on a drone defence system which can identify and neutralise aerial invaders.

• 01 Dec 2016