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15th October 2004 - ip.access ltd., a wholly owned
subsidiary of TTP Communications Plc, today announces
that it is supplying The INVESCO PERPETUAL Challenge:
Expedition Trans-Antarctica with nanoGSM™ technology
to create a private mobile phone network in the world’s
highest, driest and coldest continent. The expedition
is launched officially on Thursday 14th October at the
prestigious Royal Automobile Club in Pall Mall, London.
The GSM solution provided by ip.access will allow a
two vehicle Land Rover team to communicate with one
another as they traverse 700 miles to the South Pole
to provide a re-supply of provisions and specialist
kites to a second team of four skiers. The teams, who
will have begun on opposite sides of the continent,
will then race back together from the South Pole in
an attempt to achieve the record for the fastest ski
team to cross Antarctica.
To create the private GSM network, one Land Rover vehicle
will be equipped with ip.access’ nanoBTS™
GSM pico-basestation and MSC/BSC simulator package,
NetSim, allowing mobile calls to be made to the other
vehicle. ip.access is further supporting the INVESCO
PERPETUAL Challenge by sponsoring an Iridium interconnection
which will enable images to be transmitted back to official
media partner, Reuters, by the Communications Director
in the Land Rover team, Robyn Garratt.
The teams begin their epic journey on October 27th,
arriving in Antarctica on November 5th, and will be
hoping to complete the 1600km ski traverse in under
55 days in order to achieve the world record.
Team Leader and author of ‘Misadventures in a
White Desert’, Patrick Woodhead, is raring to go.
"The expedition is trying to realise a dream that
is over 90 years old and still has never been completed.
Sir Ernest Shackleton’s vision of two teams meeting
at the South Pole and attempting a full traverse has
been my inspiration for the trip and for many of the
adventures I have had to date. We are attempting to
meet this challenge in a totally new way, using Land
Rovers as support. We are trying to pioneer the use
of the technology provided by ip.access to enable us
to communicate with the outside world in real time."
The ip.access nanoBTS is a GSM pico-basestation that
uses IP networks to deliver cellular voice and data
services in the smallest and most cost-effective package
available today. Through the innovation of using IP
as the backhaul medium, the nanoBTS provides coverage
and capacity simply and efficiently. The nanoBTS is
part of the ip.access nanoGSM™ solution, which
allows network operators to boost mobile phone coverage
in traditionally hard-to-reach areas, enabling new applications
such as Wireless Office.
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