Mobile 5 Bluetooth GPS Receiver by TomTom BV

15 December 2005 - Sarantel Limited TomTom BV is a leading provider of personal navigation products and services. TomTom's products are easy-to-use and include all-in-one navigation devices, as well as navigation software products that integrate with third party devices such as PDAs and smartphones. TomTom BV was founded in 1991 in Amsterdam and has offices in The Netherlands, United Kingdom, France and USA. TomTom's products are sold through a network of top retailers in 16 countries.

S-911 by Laipac Technology Inc

14 December 2005 - Sarantel Limited Laipac Technology, headquartered in Toronto, Canada and with offices in Taiwan, Spain, and Mexico, offers proven, rapid, low risk product and solutions development for GPS, telecommunications and wireless applications. Laipac was founded in 1999 by a group of highly experienced engineers with a focus on innovation and customer satisfaction, developing solutions to some of the worlds most difficult positioning and wireless problems.

Mobile 5 Bluetooth GPS Receiver by TomTom BV

12 December 2005 - Sarantel Limited TomTom BV is a leading provider of personal navigation products and services. TomTom's products are easy-to-use and include all-in-one navigation devices, as well as navigation software products that integrate with third party devices such as PDAs and smartphones. TomTom BV was founded in 1991 in Amsterdam and has offices in The Netherlands, United Kingdom, France and USA. TomTom's products are sold through a network of top retailers in 16 countries.

GeoHelix Antenna Enhances GPS Performance

30 November 2005 - Sarantel Limited Sarantel, the leading manufacturer of revolutionary filtering antennas for mobile and wireless devices, announces today that ST Electronics (Info-Comm Systems) Pte Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Singapore Technologies Electronics Limited, will use Sarantel's GeoHelix Global Positioning System antenna in its new RPDA 300 ruggedized PDAs suitable for military, paramilitary and industrial specialized consumer applications.

Sarantel Antenna Helps Humminbird Find the Fish!

31 October 2005 - Sarantel Limited Sarantel, the leading manufacturer of revolutionary filtering antennas for mobile and wireless devices, today announces that Johnson Outdoors of Racine, Wisconsin, USA has selected the GeoHelix-SMP GPS antenna for the newest addition to the Humminbird line of combination GPS-fish finders.

Sarantel Fiscal Year End Trading Update

12 October 2005 - Sarantel Limited The Company is pleased to announce that it shipped 937,000 units in the financial year ended 30 September 2005 (2004: 170,000 units), up 451% year on year. Turnover is expected to be not less than £2.8 million (2004: £0.8 million), representing more than a three fold increase on the previous year and loss before tax will not exceed £5.6 million (2004: £3.8 million). Cash balances at the year end totalled £13.0 million.

'Down Under' Tracking Device Gives Performance That's Cut Above Using Sarantel

28 September 2005 - Sarantel Limited The StepLogger is a mobile logging and tracking device that uses GPS to provide accurate location, FLASH memory to store data, and GSM to transmit data and events. At the touch of a button an SMS message with the exact location can be sent to one or more pre-programmed phone numbers.

Sarantel Appoints Former Institute of Navigation President as Technical Adviser

12 September 2005 - Sarantel Limited Sarantel announces today that Dr. Per Enge has agreed to act as an intellectual property and technical advisor to the company. Dr. Enge, a professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics in the School of Engineering at Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, will advise Dr. Oliver Leisten, Sarantel's Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer, and Sarantel's technical staff in the areas of intellectual property protection and research.

Sarantel Ships Its One-Millionth Antenna

31 August 2005 - Sarantel Limited - One-Millionth Sarantel GeoHelix antenna shipped to GPS Manufacturer Globalsat. - UK plant recently increased capacity to meet surge in global demand for precision GPS antennas. - Two-millionth antenna is just around the corner!

New Globalsat GPS Receiver with Sarantel Antenna Instantly GPS-enables Business

31 August 2005 - Sarantel Limited - New receiver turns PDAs and smartphones into GPS navigators. - Lightweight & ideal for high performance GPS on the move. - Built-in storage allows for large maps, so users can locate places of interest and their way about town.

New Hi-Tech PDA with Sarantel GPS Antenna Prepares Indian Soldiers for 21st Century Battlefield

26 July 2005 - Sarantel Limited Sarantel, a leading innovator in the design and manufacture of miniature antennas for portable and mobile wireless devices, announces today that Encore Software of Bangalore, India will use Sarantel's GeoHelix GPS antenna in its new SATHI PDA for the Indian Army. The Sarantel GPS antenna ensures that every Indian soldier with a SATHI has optimum GPS reception across all environments and locations.

Sarantel Announces Successful Equipment Commissioning

21 July 2005 - Sarantel Limited Sarantel, the leading manufacturer of revolutionary filtering antennas for wireless devices, is pleased to announce that its leading-edge, bespoke manufacturing equipment has been successfully commissioned and is in production.

Maiden trading update for the half year ended 31 March 2005

28 April 2005 - Sarantel Limited Sarantel began trading on AIM on 2 March 2005, today provides an update for the half year ended 31 March 2005.

The button is pressed that opens AIM for trading

02 March 2005 - Sarantel Limited Sarantel today announced completion of its Admission to AIM and the commencement of trading in its Ordinary Shares. The Company raised approximately £16.7million (net of expenses) through a placing by Arbuthnot Securities of 21,951,220 ordinary shares at 82 pence per share.

RoyalTek Selects Sarantel Antenna for GPS Pocket PC

02 February 2005 - Sarantel Limited Sarantel will supply its award winning GeoHelix global positioning system antenna to RoyalTek Company Ltd, a leading GPS consumer products manufacturer in Taiwan known for innovative design in high performance GPS wireless products.

Sarantel Strengthens Senior Management Team

26 January 2005 - Sarantel Limited Sarantel today announces that it is strengthening its senior management team with two, new appointments. Bill Taylor joins Sarantel as Chief Operating Officer and Andrew Christie as Director of Engineering. There was a four-fold increase in sales of Sarantel's GeoHelix antennas in 2004 and continued high demand for its products is anticipated in 2005. Sarantel believes that the two newly created roles will be essential to the sustained growth and development of the business.

Sarantel's GeoHelix GPS Antenna to Boost Alltigo's Groundbreaking Asset Management Solution

16 December 2004 - Sarantel Limited Sarantel has been chosen by Alltigo to provide its GeoHelix Global Positioning System antenna in a new Assisted-GPS enabled asset management tagging solution. The Alltigo LT100 allows businesses to monitor and track assets by using GPS to identify the location of the tag and mobile network infrastructure to forward that location information to a wireless device or location-enabled enterprise system.

Laipac Selects Sarantel GPS Antenna for New GSM/GPRS S-911 Personal Locator Device

30 November 2004 - Sarantel Limited Sarantel, the leading innovator in the design and manufacture of proprietary miniature antennas for portable and wireless devices, has been chosen by Laipac Technology to supply its GeoHelix Global Positioning System antenna in a new portable tracking device.

Sarantel GPS Antenna To Debut In Space On Surrey Satellite Technology's New Miniature Satellite

05 October 2004 - Sarantel Limited Sarantel has been chosen by Surrey Satellite Technology Limited to supply its Global Positioning System GeoHelix M antenna for a new miniature satellite. Sarantel's GeoHelix M antenna will enable the GPS receiver on the orbiting miniature satellite to pick up signals from satellites located over 20,000km away. The signals will be used to accurately calculate the position over the course of the six-month mission.

NemeriX Demonstrates GPS SDIO Card Prototype at ION GNSS, 21-24 September 2004

21 September 2004 - Sarantel Limited Sarantel has been selected to supply its global positioning satellite antenna to NemeriX, a fabless semiconductor company and creators of the world's lowest power GPS chipset. NemeriX announces the availability of a GPS SDIO Card reference design that combines the benefits of its lowest power GPS chipset with Sarantel's high performance, omni-directional GeoHelix SMP antenna. This reference design enables SDIO card manufacturers to deliver GPS capabilities to mobile and digital consumer products equipped with an SD slot.

Precisa To Embed Sarantel GPS Antenna in New GSM/GPS Combination Mobile Phone

24 August 2004 - Sarantel Limited Sarantel has been chosen by Precisa to supply its global positioning system antenna. Precisa, a leading Swiss company specialising in wireless technologies and measuring instruments, has integrated Sarantel's GeoHelix GPS antenna into the Secufone, a mobile phone with a personal alarm and service button.

d-Media Windows mobile-based pocket PC with Sarantel GPS antenna

02 August 2004 - Sarantel Limited Sarantel, a leading innovator in the design and manufacture of miniature antenna for portable and mobile wireless devices, has been selected to supply its global positioning system antenna to d-Media Systems Company Ltd. d-Media Systems, a leading consumer products firm in Taiwan, will integrate Sarantel's GeoHelix GPS antenna into the new version of its 'In-View' Pocket PC N-911 product.

Eurocom Telecomunicazioni selects Sarantel GPS Antenna for World's First APLS Enabled Microphone

19 July 2004 - Sarantel Limited Police officers and security guards using the new Eurocom microphone, with a Sarantel GPS miniature antenna, working with their handportable radios can now be located and tracked when on the beat to within 5 metres of their location.

Comrod integrates Sarantel GPS antenna to improve safety of life at sea

26 May 2004 - Sarantel Limited Sarantel has won a contract to supply its GPS antenna to Norwegian antenna systems developer Comrod, as part of Comrod's new combined VHF and GPS antenna intended to meet the new universal automatic identification system regulations for maritime applications.

Sarantel broadens Asia base for its miniature antennas

14 April 2004 - Sarantel Limited UK-based miniature antenna specialist, Sarantel, has responded to the growing demand for its innovative GPS, WiFi and 3G products in the Asia/Pacific market by appointing three new distributors.

ACAL to represent Sarantel in the Netherlands

14 April 2004 - Sarantel Limited UK-based antenna manufacturer Sarantel has selected ACAL Nederland bv in Eindhoven to increase the design-in support provided to Dutch GPS system developers. Sarantel anticipates that ACAL will accelerate time to market for customers and as a result deliver more high-performing antenna solutions for GPS users in Europe.

David Dey and Jayne Chace strengthen Sarantel board

24 February 2004 - Sarantel Limited Sarantel has strengthened its board by appointing David Dey as chairman and Jayne Chace as a non-executive director. Dey brings vast experience of the telecommunications industry to Sarantel, having held senior management roles at Plessey, British Telecom and Energis, while Chace, a strategic global marketing executive, will help to further boost the company's global marketing drive.

My-Bodyguard BV selects Sarantel antenna for new personal GSM/GPS alarm

23 February 2004 - Sarantel Limited Antenna specialist Sarantel has been awarded a contract to supply its GeoHelix miniature antenna to My-Bodyguard BV, a Netherlands-based product innovation group that is launching stand-alone personal location products for use in the growing care market and for personal protection devices.

Sarantel antenna makes shortlist of three for EDN Innovation of the Year Award

13 February 2004 - Sarantel Limited Sarantel has been nominated to a short-list of three in the component category of EDN's Innovation of the Year Awards for 2004. EDN's awards program is now in its 14th year and recognises truly outstanding products and services which have been available in the electronics market during the previous year.

Framos Electronics to represent Sarantel in UK

29 January 2004 - Sarantel Limited UK-based antenna specialist Sarantel has selected Framos Electronics Ltd to increase the design-in support provided to UK GPS system developers. The move continues increases in distributor appointments elsewhere in the world to meet growing demand for Sarantel's PowerHelix antenna technology from GPS receiver and handset manufacturers.

Nokia TETRA terminal can offer user location features to UK

22 January 2004 - Sarantel Limited Sarantel has been awarded a contract to supply its miniature GPS antenna to high-reliability communications specialist SAVOX for use in its track-mate GPS module. The new track-mate, developed in Finland, provides precise GPS location ability to Nokia's THR880 TETRA terminal.

GeoHelix antenna technology gains top level recognition , twice

08 January 2004 - Sarantel Limited UK-based antenna specialist Sarantel has been included by leading US electronics design publication EDN in its assessment roundup of the 100 hot products for 2003. Additionally, Sarantel has also been chosen by Real Business magazine as one of 'the brightest hopes in the UK today' in its annual 50 companies to watch feature.

SmartAntenna F02 gets fast GPS fix inside vehicles

08 December 2003 - Sarantel Limited A new miniature GPS antenna from UK-based Sarantel can acquire GPS signals inside a vehicle or truck as efficiently as a traditional external device. The company's new F02 SmartAntenna will benefit in-vehicle navigation and tracking systems by offering the designer more considerably flexibility in locating the GPS antenna.

Hotbed invests in next generation GPS, mobile phone and wireless technology

18 November 2003 - Sarantel Limited Sarantel mobile phone and wi-fi (wireless networking) technology, has received ?500,000 growth capital through Hotbed, the private equity network, which invested alongside mainstream VCs in a ?5million funding round.

Sarantel expands antenna operations in Europe

15 October 2003 - Sarantel Limited UK-based miniature antenna specialist Sarantel has expanded its European sales and support network in response to strong demand for its products in the region. The company has appointed five new distributors to support growing interest in its miniature antennas from both government and commercial wireless equipment developers. Each distributor will be able to offer full design-in engineering support and will actively promote Sarantel's full range of GPS, 3G and WiFi products in their region.

GeoHelix-SMP need 140mm2 of space & no ground planeSmallest GPS surface mount antenna

03 October 2003 - Sarantel Limited Antenna specialist Sarantel has announced a small, passive, surface mount version of its GeoHelix(tm) GPS antennas for demanding applications requiring internal or tightly integrated surface mount antennas. The GeoHelix-SMP requires only 10x14mm of board space and because of inherent resistance to RF and other interference can be mounted adjacent to other antennas and other signal sources.

Sarantel launches new high sensitivity GPS SmartAntenna

09 September 2003 - Sarantel Limited Sarantel has launched SmartAntenna F02, its latest integrated antenna-receiver for global positioning applications. This groundbreaking module provides a complete solution for OEMs who need to build GPS into their end-products, without investing time and effort into designing their own. Additionally the ability of the GeoHelix antenna to operate predictably close to human tissue, makes this new device ideal for personal positioning applications.

Joe Murray, President of Sarantel Asia/PacificSarantel to expand miniature antenna business

29 August 2003 - Sarantel Limited Following a series of important design wins and significant sales growth in China and the Asia/Pacific region, leading UK miniature antenna manufacturer, Sarantel, has announced the formation of a Singapore-based subsidiary. The President of the new company, Sarantel Asia/Pacific Pte., is Joseph M. Murray, who brings over 20 years of experience in telecoms and cellular business development with AT&T and Lucent Technologies.

A tiny Sarantel GeoHelix antenna makes a big differenceSarantel antenna provides new view of piste

01 August 2003 - Sarantel Limited Did you ever wonder which route chosen by Menie Turgeon (Canada) and Michael Walchhofer (Austria) when they achieved the fastest downhill times at the 2003 Ski Championships in St. Moritz? What was their speed when passing the gates? How did the piste look from the skiers' perspective? More importantly, how could their performance and that of their equipment be improved?

Sarantel wins UK's most prestigious electronics award for product development

11 July 2003 - Sarantel Limited Sarantel has won one of the UK's most prestigious electronics industry awards, the Electronics Industry Design Award for Design to Manufacture. The company was voted the best example of design and manufacturing staff working together, in this case on the development of its range of PowerHelix antennas.

SkyHawke reduces size of new digital golf range finder with Sarantel GPS antenna

09 June 2003 - Sarantel Limited US-based SkyHawke Technologies, LLC, has incorporated Sarantel's miniature GeoHelix global positioning system antenna into the latest version of its market-leading SG2 Personal Digital Golf Caddie.

Miniature antenna vendor, Sarantel, forms US company

30 May 2003 - Sarantel Limited Following a period of substantial US sales growth, leading UK miniature antenna manufacturer, Sarantel, has announced the formation of a US subsidiary, Sarantel Inc.

Alan Spencer heads up European sales effort at Sarantel

22 April 2003 - Sarantel Limited Alan Spencer has joined UK miniature antenna manufacturer Sarantel as European sales manager, a role which will involve developing new opportunities for the company's successful range of advanced ceramic helical antennas (for GPS applications) and introducing some newer variants for wireless LAN, Bluetooth, 2.5G and 3G applications. He reports to Barrie Foley, the CEO.

New evaluation kit for miniature GPS receiver module

10 April 2003 - Sarantel Limited A new evaluation kit from Sarantel allows OEM users of the company's DioHelix-F Global Positioning System receiver module to characterise it within their system using a simple PC interface. The DioHelix-F module, which combines Sarantel's omni-directional GPS miniature antenna with the Fastrax iTrax02/4 GPS receiver, measures only 66 x 30mm and weighs 30g. The output of the module gives a digital geographical position anywhere on the earth to an accuracy of about +/-10 metres and applications range from leisure products to vehicle navigation and logistics.

Sarantel announces surface mount GPS antenna

13 March 2003 - Sarantel Limited UK antenna specialist, Sarantel, has announced a surface mount version of its active GeoHelix(tm) miniature Global Positioning System antenna. The GeoHelix-S, which offers a number of technical benefits over conventional patch antennas, can be mounted directly onto the GPS circuit board, thereby simplifying production and lowering costs. It is ideal suited for portable and hand-held GPS applications including use in cellular handsets.

Sarantel, radiates optimism in £3.5 million funding round Sarantel

11 February 2003 - Sarantel Limited Antenna pioneer, Sarantel, radiates optimism in £3.5 million funding round Sarantel, a pioneer of miniature antennas for the mobile wireless market, has raised £3.5 million in a first closing in a new round of investment led by two of the UK's leading hi-tech venture capital investors, MTI Partners and VCF Partners, and supported by eTechnology VCT. The funding, which follows a $14 million mobile handset contract win in November, will be used for marketing and to introduce the company's 3G mobile designs. A second closing, due within three months, is expected to raise the total amount to £6 million.

Sarantel to expand North American sales effort in growing US GPS market

13 December 2002 - Sarantel Limited In response to increasing demand in the USA for its GeoHelixT Global Positioning System antennas, UK-based helical antenna manufacturer Sarantel has appointed eight more representatives in the region. The company now has technical representation across most of the USA where it is forecasting a significant sales growth in 2002/03. The company recently announced a $14 million contract for its PowerHelix GPS antennas for use in cellular handsets.

New applications compares performance of miniature helical & patch antennas in GPS systems

06 November 2002 - Sarantel Limited Antenna manufacturer Sarantel has issued an applications note which compares the performance of patch and miniature helical antennas in Global Positioning System environments. The information, which will be of particular interest to engineers designing mobile GPS handsets and equipment, shows that whilst the patch antennas generally have a higher gain at the zenith angle (i.e. pointing vertically), the helical antennas typically have a wider beamwidth.

GeoHelix antenna gains four GPS compact-flash design-ins for USA and Asia

14 October 2002 - Sarantel Limited Sarantel says in the last four months four companies have designed its ultra-small GeoHelix(tm) global positioning system antenna into compact flash GPS modules in current production. Developers in the USA and the Far East have recognised the advantages of Sarantel's antennas for their CF modules, which target the rapidly growing GPS add-on market providing geographical location capability to PDAs and laptop PCs.

Sarantel produces its 50,000th antenna

24 September 2002 - Sarantel Limited Sarantel has just produced its 50,000th antenna at its fully automated Wellingborough factory. Production of the advanced miniature helical antennas began in November 2001 and Sarantel has now established world wide volume markets as OEMs incorporate the antenna into portable electronic devices.

New GPS antenna offers superior performance over patch devices

19 April 2002 - Sarantel Limited Antenna specialist, Sarantel, has announced GeoHelix-H, a new-technology high-gain active antenna for portable Global Positioning System receivers which enables more satellites to be acquired than conventional patch devices. Sarantel conducted field testing of the GeoHelix-H in Taipei, Taiwan, one of the world's most difficult areas for GPS satellite reception, where its superior performance was confirmed. GeoHelix-H measures only 30.4mm x 13.3mm x 6.4mm and weighs 12 grams.

New all-inclusive GPS receiver in tiny package

15 March 2002 - Sarantel Limited Sarantel and SyChip will use the CTIA Wireless 2002 show to preview the first in the range of Dios(tm) all-in-one Global Positioning System receivers, which combine an omni-directional GPS antenna with SyChip's GPS2020 GPS receiver. The Dios Tracker 2020(tm), which measures only 50 x 18 mm and weighs 28g, simply presents any system with an RS232 serial data stream containing SiRF binary or NEMA standard navigational information.