Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,257 pages of information and 244,498 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Telent

From Graces Guide

2005 BT excluded Marconi plc from consideration for its network upgrade because of price considerations, leading to job losses in Coventry and Liverpool and raising concerns that Marconi could not remain independent[1]. Most of the business was sold to Ericsson of Sweden but Ericsson would not take on the legacy pension scheme. Instead a new company, Telent, was set up to hold the remainder of the company. Telent would sell telecomms. services to businesses, telecom operators and governments in Britain and Germany[2]

2006 Marconi Communications Ltd became Telent Communications Ltd[3]

2008 Telent Communications Ltd became Telent Technology Services Ltd[4]


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Sources of Information

  1. The Times Apr. 29, 2005
  2. The Times Oct. 26, 2005
  3. Companies House filings
  4. Companies House filings