A low profile, wideband, and portable antenna has been designed and fabricated for Inmarsat broadband global area network (BGAN) land mobile terminal applications. The purpose of the antenna was to provide a low-cost and easy-fabricated solution with wide bandwidth and high performance. The proposed antenna is composed of the stacked corner-truncated patches with sequential rotation oblique feed and a serial feeding network. Good antenna characteristics are achieved over the BGAN operating hands. The measurement results for return loss, gain, axial ratio, and radiation pattern confirm the integrity of the simulation results. (C) 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 51: 2354-2357, 2009 Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/mop.24643