{"id":118412,"date":"2021-01-12T05:22:58","date_gmt":"2021-01-12T13:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/verizon-ups-and-skyward-announce-connected-drone-delivery-at-ces-2021"},"modified":"2021-01-12T05:22:58","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T13:22:58","slug":"verizon-ups-and-skyward-announce-connected-drone-delivery-at-ces-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/verizon-ups-and-skyward-announce-connected-drone-delivery-at-ces-2021","title":{"rendered":"Verizon, UPS, and Skyward announce connected drone delivery at CES 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/verizon-ups-and-skyward-announce-connected-drone-delivery-at-ces-20212.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>PORTLAND, Ore.<\/strong> \u2014 Skyward, A Verizon company, and UPS Flight Forward today announced collaborative efforts to deliver retail products with drones connected to Verizon 4G LTE, as well as 5G testing and integration for delivery. The companies aim to deliver retail products via connected drones at The Villages in Florida.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will need the ability to manage and support multiple drones, flying simultaneously, dispatched from a centralized location, operating in a secure and safe environment. To do this at scale, alongside Verizon and Skyward, we\u2019ll need the power of 5G,\u201d said Carol B. Tom\u00e9, CEO of UPS.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re just beginning to see how the power of 5G Ultra Wideband will transform the way businesses operate,\u201d said Rima Qureshi, Chief Strategy Officer at Verizon. \u201cBy partnering with UPS and other innovative companies, we can learn from each other\u2019s expertise and collaborate to create solutions that help move the world forward.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PORTLAND, Ore. \u2014 Skyward, A Verizon company, and UPS Flight Forward today announced collaborative efforts to deliver retail products with drones connected to Verizon 4G LTE, as well as 5G testing and integration for delivery. The companies aim to deliver retail products via connected drones at The Villages in Florida. \u201cWe will need the ability [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1488,418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-drones","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}