Friday, August 08, 2025

SoftBank's High Altitude Platform Station for cellphone service Launches

Glimpse the blimps! Will there be any advertisement shown on their surface? Just kidding!

What a remarkable career for airships since the Hindenburg Disaster in 1937.

"Starting next year, Tokyo’s SoftBank Corp. will be beaming a prototype 4G and 5G phone and broadband service from the stratosphere to Japanese end users. Floating 20 kilometers above the Earth, the company’s airship-based mast will be using energy-regeneration tech and newly allocated spectrum. And the tech could ultimately pose a real, competitive threat to satellite-based platforms like Starlink. ..."

SoftBank's High Altitude Platform Station Launches - IEEE Spectrum "Japan’s SoftBank is developing airship-based 4G and 5G cell masts"


High-altitude 5G cellphone towers will be prototyped in Japan next year—delivered in part by the Moriarty, N.M.–based Sceye, which developed the airship platform.


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