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2018: Use of drones by operators for deployment of communication after natural disasters
At the end of June, 2018 it became known of what Verizon and also the competing AT&T company unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for recovery of communication after natural disasters began to use.
For these purposes as reports CNBC TV channel, Verizon tests in New Jersey (USA) almost 91-kilogram drone with the petrol engine. It executes a role of the base station, providing LTE communication services in a radius of one mile (1.6 km).
According to the vice president of Verizon Michael Haberman, fast deployment of communication is very important for emergencies. Users, being in a disaster zone with the reestablished cellular communication, can call rescuers and help them to define the location, he noted.
According to the American Federal commission on communication (FCC), the hurricane Maria which fell upon the USA in the fall of 2017 and claimed the lives of 93 people disconnected about 90% of towers of cellular communication in Puerto Rico.
Soon after the incident of FCC permitted AT&T to use the Cellular On Wings drone ("Cellular communication on wings") for recovery of communication not only the clients, but also subscribers of other mobile operators in the territory of Puerto Rico. In AT&T note that the company develops the operational model assuming providing drones as service.
The operator began to provide Cellular On Wings fire that those used the UAV for rescue operations.
As for UAVs of Verizon, they by the end of June are for the test stage, but in the company expect to begin to use fully them in the conditions of natural disasters until the end of 2018.
The American cellular companies are not only which use drones for providing telecommunication services. So, South Korean KT Corporation launched into the sky the airship on which 5G network for the organization of communication is developed in places of natural disasters.[1]
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