News of Note—Amazon, MegaFon, NEC and more

Here are some other stories we’re following today:

> Amazon has been granted a patent on a delivery drone that can respond to human gestures and vocal commands. ExtremeTech article

> MegaFon and NEC have announced the completion of a live field-test to incorporate AI technology into the Russian network to improve the efficiency of planning and maintenance of transport network resources. Telecoms.com article

> Three weeks after a firmware update to BT’s home mesh networking solution, customers are still complaining that they have to constantly reboot their devices, with some being unable to connect at all. The Register article

> ZTE recently premiered an end-to-end container networking solution in the open source network functions virtualization field, dubbed Knitter, as part of its Tulip Elastic Cloud System OpenPalette platform as a service. RCR Wireless article

> AT&T and the Open Networking Foundation (ONF) kicked off a collaboration to integrate the ONF’s work on multigigabit PON with ONAP. FierceTelecom article