CLOSE-HAUL COMMUNICATIONS, INC.

Robin L. Coxe, Ph.D.

Founder & CEO
StartupCamp Telephony
21 January 2010
 CLOSE-HAUL COMMUNICATIONS
CREATES COVERAGE.
FILLS GAPS:
OFFICE
PUB/CAFÉ
RESIDENCE GSM

FILLS GAPING HOLES:

PLANES
SHIPS
BOONDOCKS
DISASTER ZONE
DEVELOPING WORLD
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 GAPfiller is a cordless VoIP phone
system that allows GSM handsets to
connect.
• GSM Access Point: resembles a Wi-Fi
box
• Open Source Software: Asterisk &
OpenBTS
• No-Frills: GSM voice and SMS text
• GSM Calls at VoIP Rates
• Fraction of the cost of a conventional
GSM network
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 HOW IT WORKS
SIP-to-SS7 Public Switched
SS7 SS7
VoIP Gateway Telephone Network
Carrier

SIP Distributed Nokia 3310, you’re

Internet Cloud good to go!
SQL Provisioning
(packet-switched network)
Database

Look ma, no
SQL
SIP

MSC! I speak SIP.

Ho hum, a GSM Air

Interface (Um)
GSM tower…

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 HOW WE’RE DIFFERENT
• Minimal infrastructure cost
• Independent of existing networks
• Not tied to a single VoIP provider
• Same hardware, different markets

GSM Femtocells: visibility into carriers’ networks

over the Internet, spectrum licensing challenges

Repeaters: amplifiers only, external antennas,

unreliable

Conventional GSM networks: expensive, not

optimized for satellite links

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 BUSINESS MODEL
• Go to market through channel partners
with established access to targeted
segments:
60K flights/day in US

40K cargo ships

~200K companies w/ 10-50 employees [UK]

• Resell VoIP services

• Monthly service plans
• Inexpensive or free hardware

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 WHERE WE’RE GOING

2011: SMB IP PBX (GSM Guard Band)

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 WHY WE’RE HERE
Close-Haul Communications, Inc. is
seeking:
• Investors
• Advisors & Board Members
• VoIP and Channel Partners

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Close-Haul Communications, Inc.
580 Harrison Ave., 4th Floor
Boston, MA 02118 USA
http://www.close-haul.com

coxe@close-haul.com

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