Commercial mobile connectivity is becoming part of the BVLOS stack
BTP's remote rail operations use BT's Drone SIM and EE mobile connectivity to carry command-and-control traffic and live video at altitude. The current seven-site deployment is planned to expand by up to 14 additional sites over the next two years.
Wed, 23 Sep 2026
Cellular connectivity is moving from an optional payload-data path toward an operational dependency in remotely supervised drone fleets.
Do not evaluate this by terrestrial coverage maps alone. Test altitude-specific coverage, handovers, latency, congestion behavior and the aircraft's deterministic response when the mobile link disappears.