UK - Scottish Equity Partners leads £8.5m funding for ip.access

ip.access was founded in 1999 as a spin-out from TTPCom to provide mobile network operators with solutions to improve in-building cellular coverage and capacity. A recent global survey showed 70% of users experience coverage problems at work, and 34% have changed operators as a result of poor coverage. Cellular capacity in buildings is becoming even more important as networks migrate to 3G and as call minutes move from fixed to mobile.

The investment will be used to finance the expansion of ip.access' current successful second-generation pico basestation business and to develop cost-effective third-generation access points for use in homes and small businesses to support fixed-mobile convergence.

ip.access produces the world's smallest GSM basestations which are designed to be deployed inside buildings and communicate with operators' infrastructure using ubiquitous broadband IP links. The company has enjoyed increasing success and its nanoGSM equipment is used by many operators including T-Mobile USA, Telfort (Netherlands), Spring Mobil (Sweden), Smart (Philippines), and Eurotel (Czech Republic). In 2004, the company signed a global OEM agreement with Siemens Mobile under which Siemens distributes nanoGSM as part of its enterprise portfolio.

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