Monday, February 22

AT&T and Intel want drones connected to an LTE network

(credit: Shawn Morgan/Intel Corporation)

On Monday, AT&T and Intel announced that they’d be partnering to test consumer drones on AT&T’s LTE network, specifically accounting for a drone’s relatively high altitude (AT&T is testing connectivity up to 500 ft high, in accordance with federal rules). The companies will also try to minimize any potential signal interference.

The two companies said they’d be showing off Intel drones at this week’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

Intel noted that the two companies would “test and define” how drones connected to an LTE network. AT&T said that such testing would allow better real-time camera footage to be streamed from the drone.

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