Please tell us more about how just 60 hydrogen-powered 5G drones could make 400000 UK base stations redundant
Gartner’s finest – a former vulture – draws clouds over eyebrow-raising connectivity plan A company working with a hydrogen-powered 5G drone maker claims to have built an airborne 5G base station antenna “unlike anything ever seen before” – and that just 60 of them could replace Britain’s terrestrial 5G networks.…
Date: 2020-11-04
theregister.co.uk
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