LughMA to FuturologyEnglish · 11 months agoJapanese telecom NTT, suggests high-altitude solar-powered drones could be 5G base stations in Africa. With coverage of 200 sq km per drone, approx 150,000 of them could blanket the continent with 5Ginterestingengineering.comexternal-linkmessage-square19fedilinkarrow-up132arrow-down13
arrow-up129arrow-down1external-linkJapanese telecom NTT, suggests high-altitude solar-powered drones could be 5G base stations in Africa. With coverage of 200 sq km per drone, approx 150,000 of them could blanket the continent with 5Ginterestingengineering.comLughMA to FuturologyEnglish · 11 months agomessage-square19fedilink
minus-squareCanadaPluslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 months agoSame for Starlink. There’s only so much bandwidth even a very modern antenna can have. And something flying is going to be power-limited as well.
Same for Starlink. There’s only so much bandwidth even a very modern antenna can have. And something flying is going to be power-limited as well.