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Japanese telecom NTT, suggests high-altitude solar-powered drones could be 5G base stations in Africa. With coverage of 200 sq km per drone, approx 150,000 of them could blanket the continent with 5G (interestingengineering.com)

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[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Same for Starlink. There's only so much bandwidth even a very modern antenna can have. And something flying is going to be power-limited as well.