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Welcome to the Premiere
International Drone Racing Circuit. This is DRL.
The Drone Racing League.
Drone Racing League is the number one drone racing property in the world.
We take the very best pilots, put on event around the globe and broadcast
that to tens of millions of fans.
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We've teamed up with Drone Racing League to fuel 5G innovation
in two fast growing markets, drones and tech powered sports.
T-Mobile is building the largest, fastest, most reliable 5G network in the country.
DRL is building a new sport that depends on using innovative technology,
creating an audience experience like no one has ever seen before.
As we look at use cases for 5G, drones
have to be one of the most compelling and entertaining.
By combining the fastest racing drone with the leading 5G network
in the country, we aim to completely reimagine sports entertainment.
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It’s a sport that really sets
the boundary between competition and technological innovation.
And it's so exciting to watch.
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It's a sport that has fans around the globe.
It speaks to a generation that is interested in technology,
excited about the future and thrilled by high speed racing sports.
Our partnership with T-Mobile is allowing us to dramatically improve
the fan experience.
We get to take our sport which lives and breathes by high speed
radio communication, pair it up with the leading innovator in that space,
and the result is going to be a huge leap forward in what our sport can do.
Standalone 5G is the foundation for low latency,
ultra reliable drone applications.
And T-Mobile was the first in the world to launch a nationwide
standalone 5G network.
Our work to achieve extremely low levels of latency is key as it will enable
quick coordination of drones in the air and the ability for traffic management
systems to approach real time awareness of drones and other obstacles.
DRL is the perfect case study for using this with our high speed drone
and are incredibly demanding need for high speed video in our sport.
In the past, the analog video that's come through is not very clear
and not very clean. With T-Mobile, 5G wireless technology,
We got a crystal clear image and it shows the world in a completely different way.
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What we're building is our first 5G racing drone.
And for the first time ever, we will do stream immersive HD content
to our fans in real time on America's fastest, most reliable 5G network.
That's all for 5G business. These things are so amazing.
And this is very good.
I know it's amazing how good they are.
Adriel is putting together the drone.
I'm waiting to finish so I can start soldering the
parts and running the cable.
So I we all like aligned them and everything. Yeah.
One of the objectives of this project is to make sure that we maximize
the fan experience.
And that is possible because these drone will be control over 5G.
Both flying and video
thanks to the T-Mobile 5G technology. What it means for the fans
is that we'll be able to see
HD video quality in the stream, the same as the pilots can see.
So she's all yours.
We're doing something that's never been done before.
The performance requirements that we have in this drone
are so extremely high
that we can only do it with the support of the T-Mobile engineering team
and really with the advancement of 5G tech and what it can bring to the drone.
So we're really excited about the fact that we can utilize the 5G technology
to do exactly what we want to do with this project.
Locked. Move around. Do something.
similar to that drone. That actually looks pretty good.
The last few days.
The goal has been to get both the drone and the networking equipment
both on at the same time while the drone is flying.
Armed test. First 5G flight.
What we want to be able to do with the prototype,
it's not only to show that we can transmit video from the office to a local device.
We want to take it out into the field to show we can transmit video
across state lines.
We want to be able to transmit that video signal from the park
that we're testing on to a new location to showcase the full capabilities
of the drone and video in a real world 5G environment.
Logging in. Good to fly.
We're getting great video.
The streaming looks amazing.
A lot of detail, a lot of color.
Looks really smooth.
So really happy how the things are going now.
See you guys. Yeah.
Oh, yeah. That's beautiful. Wow.
Wow. Beautiful. Now that the field test has proven to be a success,
it's time to build a fleet of these drones and take them to DRL races and T-Mobile
events and really show the world what this drone can do.
What we've seen so far is purely a prototype drone.
What we need to do next is to turn this into a fully finished racing drone
with a sleek next gen tech design that really represents
a momentous partnership between T-Mobile, 5G and the Drone Racing League.
The future of drone racing is really exciting
as the interest continues to build around the world
you can see DRL bringing races around the globe.
Tens of thousands of spectators in the audience broadcasts
to dozens of countries around the world, rivaling the largest race circuits
that exist today.
The world's fastest drones and the nation's leading 5G network.
Now, that's a fantastic combination.
This is just the beginning.
And I can't wait to see this 5G drone take flight in 2021 and beyond.