TRALEE based communications firm Altobridge have joined forces with UCC to conduct a research project aimed at enabling cheap mobile Internet access for remote areas.
The UCC-led project is aimed at lowering the cost of 3G mobile Internet in remote villages, planes, boats and oil platforms, and is headed up by Professor Cormac Sreenan of UCC’s Computer Science Department.
The research will involve a team of computer scientists at UCC collaborating with telecommunications engineers from Altobridge, founded by UCC graduate Mike Fitzgerald from Castlegregory, to come up with new methods to optimise data delivery while reducing the cost of satellite use.
The success of the project will be evaluated by an experimental mobile network that will link UCC and the Altobridge headquarters in Tralee’s Kerry Technology Park.
April 14th, 2010