Hi Keeping you up to date on my findings: Celtron Technologies have a division called Celtrack. This company has developed a truck anti-highjacking device which is quite ingenious. (Read BD 14 May p.25). In short it combines cellular technology with GPS (Global Positioning System) to raise alarm when a truck goes on a route it was not supposed to be on. The Business Day article does not mention that Celtrack is part of Celtech, but it is. According to Celtrack, the product satisfies about 95% of the requirements set by the trucking industry, insurance industry and the police. A demo to the industry was recieved really well. There is talk that Celtron has gotten out of its exclusivity agreement with Imperial. This would mean that they can now talk to the other car rental companies. I am a little more sceptical about this part of their business, as I still need to be convinced that people are going to phone enough to cover capital investment, maintenance and running costs of these phones. What is good though, is that these phones have a (first for SA) realtime creditcard validation and billing system. As far as I understand this means no call before validation which means no bad debt! It also means direct [35 lines left ... full text available at <url:http://www.reference.com/cgi-bin/pn/go?choice=message&table=05_1997&mid=2757607&hilit=SCEPTICAL> ] -------------------------------- Article-ID: 05_1997&2774049 Score: 78 Subject: Re: Numerology demonstration...(Wrong Again, Ooyamaneko!!)