Starting to get noticed!

How exciting – people are really sitting up and taking notice:) CNET Crave Gadget Blog – Cell phone chats–in the Australian Outback? Telegraph UK  (with an odd take in their headline, but we are ok with that!) – Australian researchers develop ‘mobile’ phone antenna – Telegraph.

Arkaroola Trials of Batphone

Hi everyone, and welcome to the first post from me!  We have had some exciting times behind the scenes getting everything ready, and I am ready to start sharing some of the events with you. A team from Flinders University and the Village Telco project went to Arkaroola Sanctuary, a magnificentNational Park that is a […]

A word from Dr Paul

I would just like to say a few words about our incredibly successful field trial and technology demonstration last Friday. The demos involved three scenarios for rapid deployment of telephone networks; (i) disaster relief, (ii) search and rescue, and (iii) deploying networks in difficult terrain. The disaster relief scenario was based around providing blanked phone […]