Racal Instruments and Freshfield Communications Agree to Strategic Global Alliance
Both companies regard this strategic alliance as the first step towards an extensive programme that will result in a wide range of products and services for the current and future generations of wireless communications systems.
Racal has a global sales and marketing organization with subsidiary companies in Europe, America, Africa, Asia-Pacific and Australia selling its award winning range of digital radio communications test systems. The company is the world's leading supplier of digital radio base station test systems as well as the world's leading manufacturer of test systems for the new and emerging digital radio satellite communication networks.
FCL designs and manufactures a range of innovative products including automatic multiband radio and network planning tools, signal strength measurement systems, air-interface simulation tools, channel sounders, GSM optimization tools and vehicle tracking Systems. FCL also undertakes extensive bespoke research and development. The company's software and hardware products are used by network operators, equipment manufacturers and system solution providers throughout the world.
Commenting on the agreement, Dr. Adel Turkmani, Freshfield Communications Limited's managing director said: "This alliance will be the cornerstone in further aggressive technology and business development programmes to meet the market demands, offering efficient solutions in the most cost-effective way. Our vision of offering mobile and personal communication network test and design solutions to manufacturers, network operators and system providers is now a reality." Racal Instruments, Inc.pany%>managing director, Colin Robertson, said: "Our global customer support, sales and distribution channels will benefit from the obvious synergy between our two product ranges and the combined technical expertise of our respective companies will provide the critical mass for future research and development programmes."
Headquartered in Surreys UK, Freshfield Communications Limited is a mobile communications and IT consultancy offering total solutions to mobile communications network design, simulation, planning, rollout, optimization and network assurance for WLL, GSM, IS-95, TETRA and UMTS, backed by a programme of market leading research and product development.
Racal Sales contacts:
Europe - Anji Metcalf Tel: + 44 (0)1628 604455
Americas - Amir Ghanouni Tel: + l 949 859 8999
Asia-Pacific (Hong Kong) - Esmond Chan Tel: + 852 2405 5500
Australia- Kim Blacker Tel: + ill 2 9936 7000