Why are we doing Connected Skies – why is it important to bring the worlds of UTM and telecommunications together? First, because there is no such thing as a fully autonomous drone; all drones will need some form of connectivity.  The only reasonable methodology of doing that is via an existing telecommunications link. So for… Read more: @GSMA MWC Barcelona 2020 event “Telecoms and aviation industries are both trillion-dollar businesses, but they have no connectivity” Dr Thomas Neubauer, TEOCO

Why are you supporting the Connected Skies event? One of the main reasons is that we see mobile telecommunications operators playing an important role in unmanned aviation. We will definitely be part of the mix of new technologies that will come together to support the drone sector. What sort of digitised connected technologies are you… Read more: @GSMA MWC Barcelona 2020 event “We would definitely like to showcase something that no-one will have seen before” – Gints Jakovels, LMT

Why are we doing Connected Skies? Why is it important to bring the worlds of UAS traffic management (UTM) and telecommunications together? It’s very close to my heart because I come from both a telecom and an aviation background, so I’m one of those rare breeds who has played in both spaces and it helps… Read more: @GSMA MWC Barcelona 2020 event “If we don’t bring all stakeholders together the industry is in danger of becoming fragmented” – Amit Ganjoo, ANRA Technologies

Interview with Unmanned Airspace, 18 December 2019. What do you hope to achieve at the Connected Skies event? What would be a success for GUTMA?For us, success will mean putting people together who don’t normally meet; talking about new business opportunities and seeing fresh alliances emerge. If you think about the promise of 5G, how… Read more: The not-to-be-missed Connected Skies event @GSMA MWC Barcelona 2020 “will highlight the business-case behind the use-case” – Simon Johnson, GUTMA