PODCAST: Barbara Pareglio of GSMA on why mobile networks are crucial to scaling Advanced Air Mobility

Our lat­est pod­cast episode is live! This week, we were delight­ed to be joined by Bar­bara Pareglio, Smart Mobil­i­ty Lead at GSMA.

Bar­bara talks about the crit­i­cal role of con­nec­tiv­i­ty in Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty (AAM). She explains how GSMA’s work in mobile tech­nolo­gies, includ­ing 4G, 5G and future 6G, is help­ing enable scal­able, secure and inter­op­er­a­ble solu­tions for drones and emerg­ing avi­a­tion plat­forms.

The dis­cus­sion explores how mobile net­works can sup­port beyond visu­al line-of-sight oper­a­tions, enhance safe­ty through dig­i­tal iden­ti­fi­ca­tion and track­ing, and pro­vide a cost-effec­tive alter­na­tive to tra­di­tion­al avi­a­tion com­mu­ni­ca­tion sys­tems. Pareglio also out­lines GSMA-led ini­tia­tives around drone iden­ti­ty, detect-and-avoid sys­tems, and data-dri­ven risk mit­i­ga­tion.

Look­ing ahead, she high­lights the impor­tance of inte­grat­ing con­nec­tiv­i­ty into avi­a­tion design from the out­set, enabling more autonomous, data-rich and effi­cient air­space man­age­ment, while stress­ing col­lab­o­ra­tion across indus­tries to accel­er­ate inno­va­tion.

Click on the Play but­ton below to lis­ten to the episode, which is also avail­able on whichev­er pod­cast plat­form you use.