Burnside Telecom | Company Background

Burnside Telecom Ltd. is a designer and manufacturer of innovative fixed cellular terminals and desktop mobile phones for voice, SMS text, internet access, cellular-landline routing and remote telemetry sensing and control. Our products are in use in 19 countries throughout the world, and customers include mobile network operators, government agencies, local and police authorities and multi-national companies.

Burnside products are used in a wide variety of applications including telecare, social alarms, police operations, defence, mobile working, industrial monitoring, office communications, transport, railway and marine communications.

Burnside's founder David Robson is the first winner of the GRIST Award [Great Ideas in Science and Technology] granted by the University of Surrey. Other companies he has founded include Cambridge Computer Graphics and International Medical Corporation.

IPR Industries Ltd is an investor in Burnside Telecom. IPR's founders also created Technophone Ltd - the company that designed the world's first truly pocket-sized cellular telephone. When Technophone was sold to Nokia in the early 1990s, it was the fourth largest manufacturer of mobile phones in the world.

Burnside Telecom - The Company