5G HAPS inches forward with Saudi trial

UK-based Stratospheric Platforms (SPL) has announced what it claims is the world’s first successful demonstration of a HAPS-based 5G base station.
Representing more signs of the momentum behind the effort to deliver 5G coverage from the stratosphere, the demonstration took place in Saudi Arabia, and saw an SPL stratospheric mast – which for the purposes of the demonstration had been installed on a civilian aircraft – deliver high-speed mobile coverage from an altitude of 14 kil