Highlands firms helping connectivity in rural areas

0 External Reality MD Richard Allan,left, with D&R Alexander & Son MD Mark Alexander Two Highlands-based companies have teamed up to bring internet access to remote locations in the area, helping projects such as windfarm sites and road construction projects.

D&R Alexander & Son has supplied a small fleet of rugged domestic trailers to Inverness-based External Reality for conversion into platforms to carry a piece of electronic kit using a satellite link.

A handful of the Sinect TMS – Trailer Mounted Satellite – systems have been ordered, and External Reality MD Richard Allan said: “I believe we are the first company to look at providing a trailer-based system such as this as an option.

“We’ll first see how it goes in Scotland and then it’s our intention to take it right across the UK and then after that perhaps internationally.”

D&R Alexander & Son was set up in 1982, is in Inverness and Caithness, and is the main distributor of Ifor Williams Trailers in the area. MD Mark Alexander said: “This has been a very nice order for us.”