Flextrack Chooses Sarantel GPS Antenna for New 'Lommy' GPS Personal Tracking Device.

WELLINGBOROUGH, England -- Sarantel's High Performance Antenna Proves Reliable Inside Lorry in "Tour de Lommy" Test

Sarantel, a leading innovator in the design and manufacture of miniature antenna for portable and mobile wireless devices, today announces that Flextrack's Lommy, a new real-time GPS personal tracking device, is using its GPS GeoHelix antenna. Sarantel's antenna will also be used to enable high quality GPS reception across a host of environments in a range of forthcoming lightweight Lommy devices aimed at the asset and personal tracking markets.

The first Lommy device is a small, battery-powered GPS/GPRS tracking device, with two-way voice communication features for use in emergencies. It is one of the first solutions on the market to include a range of web-based applications that have been tailored to support asset and personal tracking services.

Flextrack selected Sarantel's miniature GPS antenna for the Lommy because of its small size and ability to receive GPS reception reliably even in the harshest urban environments, including inside buildings and transport containers. To demonstrate the Lommy's GPS positioning and reception capabilities, Flextrack carried out a 'Tour de Lommy' test, in which the Lommy was sent via Denmark's National Post service from Hedensted to Alborg, 150 miles away. During the tour, Flextrack received geographical updates every two minutes on the Lommy's position, direction and speed as it travelled via car and a lorry with a closed aluminium cargo room.

Carsten Groen, Flextrack's's Development Manager says: "We wanted an 'acid test' demonstration of the Lommy's performance with the Sarantel antenna, so we posted it! In our 'Tour de Lommy' test the Sarantel antenna was embedded in the Lommy and never had a clear view of the sky. Nonetheless, the Lommy tracked perfectly, 100% of the time. The Sarantel antenna's wide beamwidth and resistance to performance degradation when near objects that would detune other antennas was a clear advantage to successfully completing the 'Tour de Lommy.'"

David Wither, Chief Executive Officer for Sarantel says: "Like the mobile market, the proliferation of accompanying services could well be a key dynamic in the uptake of personal GPS tracking devices. But in order to provide these devices with accompanying service level agreements, it is critical that the Lommy and related products have robust GPS reception and can be reliably tracked at all times, which is where our GPS antenna makes a valuable difference."

About Flextrack

Flextrack is a newly started subsidiary of the Jax Corporation. The persons behind Flextrack have been working with the development and construction of advanced telemetric equipment for a number of years, and very high competence has been reached in areas such as GPS, GSM and GPRS.

About Sarantel

Sarantel Limited is a dynamic, growing company that develops and manufactures a new generation of miniature filtering antennas for wireless communications. Sarantel's antennas benefit mobile wireless products in the GPS, Wireless LAN, Satellite and voice telecommunications markets. Based on 20+ years of research and development, the company has over 200 worldwide patents covering the design and manufacture of antennas that provide clear signals and high performance in all conditions of use. The parent company, Sarantel PLC, is based in Wellingborough, England, with offices in Singapore, New York, Seattle, and Dallas. It is publicly traded on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange under the symbol SLG. Please visit http://www.sarantel.com for further information.