By Douglas Busvine
BERLIN (Reuters) - Deutsche Telekom <DTEGn.DE> has successfully tested an aerial base station in the earth's stratosphere, it said on Monday, hoping to bring mobile coverage to remote areas that ground-based networks fail to reach.
The German telecoms group and its partner, British startup Stratospheric Platforms, said that a remotely piloted aircraft flying at 14,000 metres (45,000 feet) had successfully connected with its terrestrial 4G network from an on-board antenna.
The airborne base station, which can cover an area up to 140 km (87 miles) across, handled voice and video calls, data downloads and web browsing from a smartphone user on the ground during trial flights this month.
"We won't stop until everyone is connected," Deutsche Telekom CEO Tim Hoettges told a video presentation on the project, which has been in ...
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