Never mind rail and ports, let's help DPD... and, er, Amazon: UK gov and ESA call for ways to slap logistics with 5G stick

Got an idea on how to use 5G for something useful? ESA and the UK Space Agency want to hear from you. A Call For Proposals has been issued by the space agencies and the UK's Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) aimed at coming up with ways of using 5G terrestrial and space technology in support of the UK's …

[MatthewSt]

An article about 5G without mentioning Coronavirus? Are you mad? Or are you part of the conspiracy too?

[Lars]

One has to add that it's only the masts that creates the virus, the satellites are simply too far away to be dangerous.

[John Brown (no body)]

Did you miss the link in paragraph 5?

[MatthewSt]

It would appear I did. Might be time to get some new specs

[Pen-y-gors]

OneWeb

"Both SpaceX and OneWeb (in which the UK government has plans to invest a cool half billion ^^^ under the mistaken impression it's a GPS system^^^) plan constellations which will enable greater 5G coverage."

Government must stop spaffing billions as the result of a chat over drinks with a chum.

[Mike Moyle]

For those of us on the wrong side of the pond...

What's the "DPD" mentioned in the title? It doesn't seem to be defined in the article and I didn't see anything that could be abbreviated down to it.

[iron]

Re: For those of us on the wrong side of the pond...

A delivery company operating in the UK.

[MatthewSt]

Re: For those of us on the wrong side of the pond...

Deutscher Paket Dienst operates in more countries than the UK...

[Claverhouse]

Re: For those of us on the wrong side of the pond...

But thanks to the miracle of international buying and selling, presently owned by the French State. Not unlike EDF the 'British' electricity company, and other such companies, so that France is our biggest energy supplier.

[hoola]

Re: For those of us on the wrong side of the pond...

In my experience they also do appear to be able to deliver a package that arrives at the correct destination, intact and usually within the delivery schedule.

[Mike Moyle]

Re: For those of us on the wrong side of the pond...

oh. Okay. Thanks.

[TeeCee]

Difficult to think of anything constructive to do with 5G that cannot be done equally as well with 4G[1], albeit slightly less quickly.

Killer here is that, given current coverage, whatever it is might actually work fairly reliably on 4G...

[1] Ok, apart from running a High Frequency Trading system or a media streaming service from a fleet of trucks then.

[David Nash]

Seems a bit back to front

I may have misinterpreted but it sounds like they are saying, we have this wizzy new 5G thingy, does anyone have any idea what we can use it for?

[MachDiamond]

New?

What's wrong with faster cat videos and porn? What's old is new again.