Softbank: With Google, stratosphere communication base station-UAV "Hawk 30"

Softbank: With Google, stratosphere communication base station-UAV “Hawk 30”

Softbank:

Partner with the parent company Alphabet.

announced that we would embark on the business of a flying communication base station (providing a communication network from the sky).

Currently, about 3.7 billion people in the world are not yet connected to the Internet.

“Hawk 30”:

The unmanned airplane “Hawk 30” carries a base station and transmits radio waves from the stratosphere 20 km above.

The communication range is 200 km in diameter, and about 40 aircraft cover the whole of Japan.

Aim for commercialization in 2023.

Comments from Softbank Junichi Miyagawa, Vice President.

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