AT&T’s ‘Flying COW’ Drone Provides Cell Service to Puerto Rico

The mini-helicopter can provide voice, data and text services in a 40-square-mile radius

Engadget, November 6 2017 – These days, it’s just as important to have communication up and running after a major disaster as it is to have power, food and drinkable water. The FCC approved $77 million to fix communications in Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands, while Project Loon (a collaboration with AT&T, Alphabet and T-Mobile) has found ways to get the internet up and running via LTE-providing balloons. Now, AT&T has deployed its helicopter Flying COW (Cell on Wings) to temporarily provide data, voice and text services to Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria. To continue reading the article click here. 

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