Christmas Opening Hours

Footprint Investigations will close at 5.30pm on Friday 23rd December and re-open on Tuesday 3rd January.

During the holidays period we can be contacted on 07728 191 777 or enquiries@footprintinvestigations.com

Merry Christmas

 

 

Merry Christmas from the Cell Site Experts

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The cell site analysis team at Footprint Investigations would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

We have not sent any cards out to our clients but have instead made a donation to Acorns Children’s Hospice in Birmingham.

Cell Site Analysis in 2016

We are fast approaching the end of 2016 and it has been a very busy year for the cell site analysis experts. We have expanded this year and taken on another cell site analyst and we are currently recruiting for a new cell site analysis expert.

Last year we spoke about many cases being urgent, well I think this year I think this summed up the majority of cases. We have had to adapt how we work and now we expect that a case will be urgent and need to be turned around quickly. In fact we have been instructed on a significant number of cases this year where the case was already at trial, and again we have dealt with this and accommodated any cell site analysis work required. Even cases where we have a considerable length of time invariably become urgent at some point as other cases are being dealt with first in order to meet trial dates.

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Welcome to the latest member of our Cell Site Analysis Team

The Cell Site Experts are delighted to welcome Greg Fletcher to Footprint Investigations.  Greg is a highly experienced Analyst and has been working in the field of insurance fraud for the last 8 years.

Greg has extensive knowledge of the criminal justice system and has spent time identifying and reporting on emerging threats and risks affecting the insurance industry through fraudulent and criminal behaviour.

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Cell Site of The Week 07/11/16

Given its recent anniversary, it seemed appropriate to feature the Crystal Palace Tower.

Even though it was built for the purposes of radio and TV transmissions, it is also home to several cell sites

mounted at an intermediate height so as not to cause too much interference.

Recent cell site surveys show this site to provide extensive coverage of the Crystal Palace and Norwood areas.

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How Many Cell Site Analysis Reports Has Your Expert Prepared?

shutterstock_77165374 You may be surprised at how few cases many cell site analysis ‘experts’ have actually conducted. The main reason being that cell site analysis is not their ‘day job’. Many companies offering this expert discipline do not actually have an in house expert. By this we mean a person who has previously been employed by one of the mobile phone network providers, usually in a planning and optimisation role.

Check the CV of your cell site analysis expert and you may well find that their qualifications lie in the field of computer or mobile phone forensics. There is no crossover between the field of cell site analysis and that of any other discipline. This is a highly complex and specialised type of work and as an expert is entitled to give evidence of opinion, rather than just that of fact then it should make sense that you would use someone with a working background in that particular field.

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Happy 6th Birthday to the Cell Site Experts

As Footprint Investigations celebrate their 6th anniversary this week, commercial director and one of the founding partners, Andy Townsend reflects on those last 6 years;

The last 6 Years has literally flown by. Starting a business in a recession was a brave move, although we knew between us that we could offer a high quality cell site analysis product to meet the needs of the ever growing industry.

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Don’t believe everything you read about Cell Site Analysis!

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If you do a quick internet search for a cell site expert you are faced with pages of companies making all sorts of grand claims. There is all sorts of misleading information just on the first couple of pages of one search engine. We know which of these claims are either true or false. That’s because cell site analysis is all we do, day in day out and the cell site analysis experts at Footprint Investigations are passionate about what they do. So let’s have a look at some of the claims being made which could have an effect on your criminal defence case.

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Cell Site of the Week 01/09/16

During recent survey work in Gloucester, this cell site was found to provide coverage to much of the City Centre,

with three networks hosted on the rooftop, providing all technologies 2G, 3G and 4G

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Cell Site at the End of the World

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Cell site of the week has been provided by one of our experts from a recent holiday in Portugal.

 

The cell site is located in Sagres near Cape St Vincent. This could well be the most south westerly cell site in Europe.