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Drone industry leaders pool expertise to
solve challenge of ‘out of sight flying’
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ondon’s City Hall has played host to
a meeting of leading drone industry
stakeholders who gathered to discuss how
best to harness UK expertise to enable the
delivery of ‘Beyond Visual Line of Sight’
(BVLOS) and ‘Vertical Take-Off and Landing’
(VTOL) Drone Flights and ‘Unmanned Traffic
Management’ (UTM) systems for drones.
The meeting signifies the UK drone
industry’s commitment to provide a solution
to two of the sector’s biggest challenges to
make routine commercial drone flights a
reality in UK skies.
AM, the meeting sought to pull together
the expertise developed through several
different BVLOS, VTOL and UTM pilot
projects being progressed by a range of UK
organisations dedicated to the success of
the drone industry, both in the public and
private sector.
Recent discussions between Drone Major
Group Ltd who convened the meeting,
and representatives of the Department
for Transport (DfT), the Greater London
Authority (GLA), British Standards Institution
(BSI) and others highlighted the need for
the industry to come together to agree
the best approaches to ensure that the
UK maintains its leading role in the drone
industry’s continued development as one of
the world’s most economically significant
disruptor technologies.
The outputs of the meeting are expected
to form an important industry contribution
to government thinking on the long-
awaited Drone Bill, which is at an advanced
stage of drafting and is now expected to
be laid before Parliament in early 2019.
Hosted at City Hall by London Assembly
Transport Committee member, Keith Prince
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Huawei unveils 5G home broadband
capability in London
H
uawei and Three UK have showcased
a 5G home broadband demonstration
using Three UK’s 100MHz C-Band spectrum
at the 2018 Huawei Mobile Broadband
Forum, bringing to life the transformative
capability of 5G services.
in densely populated urban areas and
train stations, paving the way for the full
commercial use of 5G networks in 2019.
Yang Chaobin, President of Huawei 5G
Product Line, said: “The 5G trials we carried
out to demonstrate the opportunity
this technology brings to the home
broadband market. Huawei will continue
to work with Three UK to bring customers
more market-leading commercial
applications of 5G.”
The demonstration leverages Huawei’s
latest home broadband routers – the first
5G commercial terminals in the world – to
allow forum attendees to experience ultra-
high-speed 5G broadband services, such as
cloud gaming and 4K video streaming.
The service is expected to deliver a
maximum download speed of 2 Gbps,
with an average of 1 Gbps for a single user.
This follows the successful pre-commercial
network tests that Huawei and Three
conducted earlier this year. Huawei will
continue to work with Three to conduct
further 5G service tests in the UK, which
are expected to be released to the public
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