Virgin Media O2 powers 5G emergency services drone

Virgin Media O2 is parading its latest 5G use case, a tethered drone designed to help the emergency services.
The telco this week shared details of a trial it carried out with Swiss public safety drone specialist Fotokite to provide a video feed from a drone to assist first responders on the ground. Essentially, Fotokite has a tethered drone system – connected to a ground station via a reinforced, ultra-thin cable, that is – that can be flown as much as 45 metres into the air to give