News Archive
- Presenting telent’s In-vehicle communications services| 06 09 2010
The event brings together delegates from the UK and International Police Services as well as other enforcement agencies, emergency services and government departments.
Having installed voice and data equipment in over 10,000 vehicles as part of the Firelink Programme and with contracts to provide maintenance services for over 8,000 emergency services vehicles across the UK, telent has a solid track record in this market.
Join us at NAPFM to find out how we can cover every aspect of your in-vehicle communications, leaving you free to concentrate on your core business.
- The NEC chooses telent for contact centre solution| 24 06 2010
telent will provide a turnkey soft-ware based call recording solution encompassing installation, commissioning and integration, as well as support and maintenance, for calls made by customers to buy tickets for music, theatre and sporting events at venues across the country.
- BT Global Services awards telent frame contract for Enterprise voice field maintenance services| 14 06 2010
The three-year framework contract provides telent with the opportunity to supply a range of assurance and professional services for BT Global Services and their customers, across large and often complex multi-vendor estates. These networks range from small PBX switches through to large unified communications platforms and call centre applications.
- telent awarded SISS maintenance contract by Northern Rail| 04 05 2010
telent’s highly skilled telecoms engineers will provide a 24/7/365 maintenance and support service covering public address systems, public help points and Customer Information Systems (CIS). The contract, which lasts for 5 years, stretches from Derbyshire to the Scottish Borders and from the west coast to the east coast of England.
- telent to deliver retail communications for a new ticket hall at Stratford International Station for Westfield| 28 04 2010
The new ticket hall will form an integral part of the larger retail and leisure development, Westfield Stratford City, which will be the gateway to the Olympic Park and will provide access to Stratford’s major transport interchanges for the Network Rail, London Underground and Docklands Light Rail as well as international rail links. Westfield Stratford City forms part of the wider regeneration of east London and the infrastructure is a crucial component of the master plan.
- telent reaches another major milestone with BSkyB| 26 04 2010
telent manages the volume deployment, installation, commissioning and systems integration, of access equipment as part of Sky Network Services Local Loop Unbundling programme (LLU), as well as the supply of associated installation materials. telent also marshals, configures and tests equipment in its National Distribution Centre before roll-out into the field, as well as providing first line maintenance and 24x7 support for Sky’s ADSL portfolio.
- Network Rail awards telent two telecoms framework contracts| 21 04 2010
telent, the technology services company, has been awarded two telecoms framework contracts by Network Rail covering its Western and South East Regions.
Under the framework contracts, telent will provide the telecoms equipment and services necessary to renew Network Rail’s operational railway communication networks and systems over the next 12-18 months.- telent and Swarco collaborate| 08 04 2010
Announced at the Intertraffic exhibition in Amsterdam, the agreement is for five years and combines Swarco’s technical expertise and leading edge urban traffic products with telent’s industry experience and proven service delivery.
The first products to emerge from the partnership into the market will be the new range of Optima Traffic Signal Controllers and ancillary products which will be released in the 2nd quarter of 2010.- Don't miss telent at Nemex 2010| 06 04 2010
NEMEX is the UK’s leading energy and renewables event, and is well positioned to offer innovative technology and tackle new challenges within the energy market. Large Multinationals, SMEs and the Public Sector attend NEMEX with a desire to source energy solutions; including energy management systems and energy efficient technologies.
Visit telent at stand S18 to discover more about our Intelligent Building Management solutions, including:- telent delivers award winning new Local Area Network and Public Address system on the Docklands Light Railway| 22 03 2010
Serco Docklands, the first company in the UK to deploy such a system, selected telent in 2008 to undertake the system design and implementation of both the LAN network and PA system capitalising on telent’s extensive rail, IT and acoustic consultancy expertise.
- telent and Atos Origin sponsor Future of Station Design conference and announce industry partnership| 19 03 2010
The two companies intend to work together to enable a safer and richer passenger experience, combined with more effective and efficient station operation. Good news for passengers and rail operators alike.
- London Underground saves more than £100m through streamlined maintenance contracts| 02 03 2010
The directorate, which carries out all routine maintenance across the Bakerloo, Central, Victoria, Waterloo & City, Circle, Hammersmith & City, District and Metropolitan lines, has let the contracts after a full-scale review of procurement from third-party suppliers.
Previous procurement of goods and services had meant that 56 suppliers were engaged by the Maintenance directorate, with 99 individual contracts.
- Don’t miss telent at Intertraffic 2010| 12 02 2010
The show is one of the biggest events in the Traffic industry’s calendar, bringing together over 800 suppliers of infrastructure, ITS, traffic management, safety and parking solutions.
Visit telent at stand 10.220 to discover how we are leading the way in traffic technology services, providing a wide range of products and services including;
Traffic Controllers - The new Optima range of traffic and pedestrian control products
Signal Heads - Leading the way in high specification low power products- UTStarcom Joins With telent to Integrate, Resell Custom NGN Solutions in the United Kingdom| 04 02 2010
UTStarcom's mSwitch® NGN products will be packaged with telent's technology services solutions to create a new Next Generation Network (NGN) solution set designed to specifically address the needs of UK operators in refreshing their existing networks and providing for the future deployment of multimedia services over packet-based access technologies.
Building on NGN successes in Europe and Asia Pacific, this strategic agreement enables UTStarcom to expand the reach and impact of its global mSwitch® solutions into the UK and Ireland.- telent awarded Station Information and Surveillance Systems contract by First Great Western| 01 02 2010
This contract, the largest award of its kind by a Train Operating Company (TOC), will see the installation phase of the contract completed by November 2010 and maintenance of the systems continuing till 2015. The contract covers in excess of 400 new Customer Information System (CIS) screens, 500 new speakers and 150 CCTV cameras as well as all associated structures being installed and supported across First Great Western’s estate.
- New online Services Tool and Catalogue launched| 28 01 2010
telent provide a vast array of services from Acoustic Design to Voice over IP and you can now find out more about each of these in one comprehensive guide. Our Service Catalogue provides a description of over 140 telent service lines with signposts to where you can find further information and details of who you would need to contact to find out more.
- telent exceeds target and raises over £60,000 for the NSPCC| 12 01 2010
To reach this total, telent staff were significantly involved in numerous fund raisings activities including; sports challenges such as the London Marathon and the charity’s national Big Bike Ride, collections at offices and London Underground stations, raffles, auctions and through the company’s salary donation scheme.
telent’s customers, suppliers and partners have also helped through supporting the company’s fifth annual charity golf day, which alone raised over £54,000, operating a mobile phone recycling scheme and general donations.- Network Rail order a further 700 GSM-R hand-portable radios| 21 12 2009
Train crew radios will be issued with a ‘Railway Emergency Call’ only facility. Engineers will have radios enabled to access key network performance data which will support national deployment and site commissioning. The commissioning teams themselves will receive 35 radios which have been specially adapted to provide network measurement facilities that will speed up trackside monitoring. 250 radios are destined for maintenance staff.
- telent Targets Mid-Market Enterprises With ‘Unified Communications & Control’ (UCC) Proposition| 07 12 2009
telent, the technology services company, today unveils plans for its Integrated Solutions Business Unit to address mid-market enterprises and public sector organisations with its innovative ‘Unified Communications & Control’ (UCC) proposition. This unique offering enables converged IT communications networks and building management control systems to be unified into a single, intelligent infrastructure underpinned by telent’s MICA (Management Integration & Control of Assets) solution.
- Pension trustee and telent establish comprehensive funding agreement for the GEC 1972 (Pension) plan| 24 11 2009
The comprehensive agreement allows telent and the Trustee to strengthen the safety and security of the pension benefits that its 56,000 members have already built up within the Plan. At the same time it allows the company to continue to invest in and grow the business. Importantly, the interests of the company and the Trustee are aligned with this agreement in advancing the security of member benefits whilst enabling the future development of the company.
Key areas of the agreement:- telent awarded CIS extension works by Merseyrail| 23 11 2009
telent will design, supply and integrate new customer information displays, supplied by Infotec, and public address system onto the existing core Atos Origin CIS at the 9 stations. telent will then provide support for the new equipment as part of their existing five-year maintenance contract.
David Mullan, Projects and Procurement Director at Merseyrail said: “telent was selected the winner of this competitive tender as it demonstrated the necessary ability and competence to successfully deliver the project.”- telent retains West Sussex traffic signals and vehicle activated signs maintenance contract| 19 11 2009
Through the contract, telent will provide preventative and corrective maintenance services on over 400 sets of traffic signals and over 100 vehicle activated signs on a 24/7/365 basis with a two-hour response SLA for urgent faults.
telent has held this contract since 1994 through Microsense and TSUK. In that time, West Sussex County Council has received a high quality, reliable and flexible service which has been tailored to meet their needs.- telent exhibits at Road Expo 2009| 04 11 2009
For the next two days, telent will be exhibiting its traffic capabilities at Road Expo 2009. Taking place at Edinburgh’s Highland Centre, Road Expo is the only show of its kind in Scotland.
telent will be exhibiting its wide range of capabilities covering both inter-urban and urban markets. Specifically, we’ll be exhibiting our Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) camera solution and new traffic controller, Optima along with our other traffic management products and software.- telent awarded software and systems integration contract to upgrade London bus passenger information system| 19 10 2009
telent’s solution will enable passengers to use their mobile phone or the internet to find out exactly when their next bus is due.
During the first phase of the contract, telent will be responsible for core software design and development, system build as well as testing and integration. After rollout in 2011, telent will maintain the core system for the duration of the contract.- Carillion-telent joint venture signs contract with Openreach for support services contract worth in the region of £1 billion| 13 10 2009
Under the contract, which follows a letter of intent signed in August this year, the joint venture will deliver a range of engineering, support and maintenance services, consolidating work currently carried out by a number of outsourced suppliers. Services will include delivery of support and installation services, asset management and maintenance, across Openreach’s five regions - London and Home Counties, the South East, Midlands, Wales and West, the North, and Scotland.
- Premises Networks rebrands as telent| 01 10 2009
telent, a leading provider of technology services, has re-launched its Premises Networks business as telent today.
The acquisition in September 2008 of Premises Networks, a specialist provider of systems integration services, has strengthened telent’s presence and service offering in the telecommunications sector and medium- to large enterprise markets over the last year.
- Cisco recognise telent's Phys Sec capability| 30 09 2009
To qualify for ATP status, telent demonstrated the technical skills required to deploy Cisco’s solutions alongside other 3rd party equipment within a wide range of industries. telent has a significant track record in CCTV system audit, design, installation, integration and maintenance having commissioned over 1800 cameras for London Underground infrastructure partner Tube Lines.
telent has developed a comprehensive lab facility, replicating end-user conditions to further develop our solutions and train engineering and sales teams.- telent supports Blue Knights' quest| 10 09 2009
Five motorcyclists from The England XIV chapter of Blue Knights, based in Avon & Somerset Constabulary, will ride from Portishead to Land's End and then up to John O’Groats, raising funds along the way.
- telent awarded contract to maintain Merseyrail’s Station Information and Surveillance System| 01 09 2009
telent engineers, coordinated through its Service Centre in London’s Docklands, will provide 24/7/365 maintenance and support across the 66 stations. telent will use its Transportation Maintenance Management System (TRAMMS) to co-ordinate operations and will utilise remote interrogation of the systems to support planned and corrective maintenance.
- Carillion-telent signs letter of intent with Openreach for support services contract worth in the region of £1 billion| 20 08 2009
Services will include complex support and network installation services, asset management and maintenance, together with other associated works.
The contract is expected to be agreed and signed within the next two months, during which time certain transition arrangements will be put in place.- Sales Partner status attained with Nokia Siemens Networks | 19 08 2009
As a Sales Partner, telent will specialise in solutions from Nokia Siemens Networks’ Broadband Connectivity portfolio including Dynanet access multiplexers and A-Series Carrier Ethernet Switches.
telent will combine its expertise in specific market sectors such as Emergency Services, Metro, Rail, Traffic and Telco with Nokia Siemens Networks’ advanced portfolio to create solutions that will guarantee resilience of service, assured delivery and value-for-money.- telent provides WiMAX transition services for UK Broadband Ltd| 13 08 2009
ACG provided project management, materials handling and logistics, and site deployment services, enabling UK Broadband to provide wireless data transmission using a variety of modes, which have demonstrated speeds of 20mbps on a dongle.
- telent awarded Arriva Trains Wales station upgrade contract| 10 08 2009
telent will initially undertake a survey and design phase at the 59 stations before installing approximately 150 CCTV security cameras, 46 Public Help Points (PHPs), recording equipment, new speakers and 100 new customer information screens. The company is also renewing the Customer Information Systems (CIS) at the stations to improve the system availability and reliability as well as station security. Following completion of the programme in 2010, passengers will benefit from the new screens providing a clearer view of information, especially in bright sunlight.
- telent celebrates 10 years work with the NSPCC| 04 08 2009
telent’s employees are responsible for all fundraising and in their pursuit, staff have organised several highly successful golf days, held their own Big Bike Rides and donated over £12,000.00 through the company’s Give As You Earn (GAYE) salary donation scheme. Staff have also held numerous cake sales and dress up/down days and taken on personal challenges such as walking Hadrian’s Wall, busking through Europe on a motorbike and running multiple marathons across the globe.
- Warwick based students see technology at work in telent's labs| 13 07 2009
Year 8 pupils from Aylesford School, King’s High School, Myton School and Warwick School were selected to attend the ‘Dynamic Data’ day which included a visit to National Grid and telent.
- telent awarded contract for National Express East Anglia| 23 06 2009
telent engineers will provide a 24/7/365 maintenance and support service covering CCTV, public address systems, public help points and Station Information and Security Systems at all stations in the franchise; covering Liverpool Street station in the City of London to destinations in Essex, Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Suffolk and Norfolk.
telent is using its own Transport Maintenance Management System (TRAMMS) and Service Centre in London’s Docklands to co-ordinate operations.
- telent awarded major contract by MF&RS for ICT services| 10 06 2009
Under the new agreement, telent will provide a comprehensive range of maintenance services to MF&RS in addition to implementing key technology refresh programmes. Services provided by telent are delivered in accordance with ITIL and include a 24x7x365 ICT support desk, maintenance, network design, project management and contingency & disaster recovery planning.
- Distribution deal inked between telent and Traficon| 02 06 2009
By combining Traficon's state-of-the-art video detection technology with telent's excellent systems integration skills and customer service, the partnership will offer unique benefits to the UK market, in particular to clients who are looking for intelligent solutions that enhance mobility and significantly reduce vehicle pollution.
- telent provides DSO implementation services for Arqiva| 27 05 2009
In a project worth around £1.5 million, ACG are providing project management services, material handling and logistics, and supply of steelwork to deploy new digital transmission equipment and antennas, in what are very remote areas with challenging weather. ACG is one of a number of specialist companies in the UK supporting Arqiva with the whole process of upgrading transmission equipment throughout the country.
- telent installs Firelink radio equipment in 2000th Vehicle| 21 05 2009
Firelink aims to enable greater collaboration between emergency services and improve operational resilience through the introduction of a new radio system and interlinking control rooms. As part of the complex national systems rollout, equipment and antennae must be installed in every Fire and Rescue Service appliance (such as Fire Engines and commanding officer’s vehicles). Five months since the rollout programme began, we rolled Firelink out to the 2000th vehicle and we’ve since completed a further 750 installations.
- Digital Mobile Radio network for Emergency Services, Germany| 06 05 2009
TETRA-based digital PMR offers reduced risk of radio interception, higher quality transmission and improved functionality over analogue radio systems. A pilot TETRA radio project, led by the Bavaria’s DigiNet group, is already underway in the city and district of Munich, as part of plans to replace existing analogue radio systems across the whole of Germany by 2012.
- telent awarded mast audit contract for new digital railway system| 28 04 2009
telent has provided a mast maintenance service to Network Rail since it built the first GSM-R network in the UK, which was completed in 2003. This contract expands the scale and geographical coverage of the telent rail mast services team with the increased deployment of specially equipped multi-skilled teams, trained and licenced to climb and work safely on masts.
- telent wins Cumbria traffic signals maintenance contract| 21 04 2009
This is a significant win for the company with the business retained, even after a 15-year tenure, after a mandatory competitive tender process through the Official Journal of the European Union.
- telent returns to annual public safety ICT conference| 15 04 2009
The BAPCO conference is designed specifically for communications professionals involved in the provision and use of communications and information management technologies in civil contingency and emergency incidents to exchange ideas, experience and knowledge. It provides a unique forum for public communications practitioners, providing information, support and solutions to the industry’s most pressing challenges.
- Customer Information & Security System at Corby rail station| 06 04 2009
The public address system, 6 customer information screens, 2 customer help points and 15 security cameras have been installed at the new station. Connected by a wide area network (WAN), the CCTV cameras transmit images to the remote security control centre in Derby and can also be operated locally. The system is protected by a UPS and battery back-up system in case of power interruptions.
- telent on the road to Traffex| 18 03 2009
Taking place at Birmingham’s National Exhibition Centre (NEC) from 21st to 23rd April 2009, Traffex promises to be the year’s largest gathering of key figures from the traffic management community.
- telent to replace DOO on Network Rail South East| 10 03 2009
The Driver Only Operator system allows the train driver to check CCTV monitors on the platform to ensure that passengers are clear of the doors and it is safe to move off. The system enables trains to operate safely, without the need for a train dispatcher and improves train times in and out of the station.
Read more about our DOO replacement programme in the South East
- telent's rail solutions on show at MetroRail| 24 02 2009
Following last year’s highly successful MetroRail conference in Copenhagen, the annual event came to the Olympia Conference Centre in London and ran from 30 March to 2 April 2009.
The conference is an opportunity for telent to participate in workshop discussions on key industry issues from safety & security to sustainability and the environment. We demonstrated some of the solutions that have cemented telent’s reputation as a respected technology service supplier in the Metro and Rail sectors.
- Talk to telent at world's largest ICT show| 12 02 2009
Visitors to telent's stand were able to discover our broad portfolio of professional services and technology solutions and learnt how we support operator, transport, utilities, corporate and public authorities customers to plan, build, migrate and operate their networks.
- DLR on track for growth with new LAN and IP-based PA system| 10 02 2009
telent will install a new high performance LAN infrastructure to underpin the railway’s planned deployment of new services and IP-based applications, the first of which uses ASL iPA equipment to provide an innovative IP-based public address (PA) system servicing some 32 DLR stations.
telent has been chosen to undertake the system design and implementation of both the network and PA system, capitalising on its extensive rail, IT and acoustic consultancy expertise. The roll out of the project has already started and will be completed during 2009.
- Visit telent's stand at Railtex 2009| 29 01 2009
Taking place at Earls Court Two in London from 10 to 12 March 2009, Railtex was an unmissable opportunity to hear the latest opinions on rail technology, participate in interactive seminars and network with key industry professionals.
- Transform your field operations with telent Intelligent Logistics| 23 01 2009
We’ve developed our Intelligent Logistics solution to guarantee that parts availability is not the determining factor in our ability to carry out any given task. Working to the ethos of “delivering the right part to the right engineer in the right place at the right time”, our solution was so successful that we soon began to offer it to those customers with in-house engineering capabilities.
- Growing telent Rail business upgrades vehicle fleet| 14 01 2009
Installing and maintaining telecommunications equipment for customers including Network Rail, telent is responsible for consistently reliable operation of systems that support the smooth running of UK rail services.
Installation & Commissioning manager, Lee Clinton noted that “Safety is paramount whilst working in the rail environment.” He added, “operating the length and breadth of the country, we are often called to very remote, difficult to access worksites, so our engineers need a vehicle that is as ready for the challenge as they are.”- telent staff raise more than £60,000 for the NSPCC| 06 01 2009
Charity auctions, sponsored drives, cycle rides and runs and recycling schemes were just some of the methods used by telent staff at sites across the country to raise the donation. Many telent employees also contributed a percentage of their salaries to the cause through monthly salary donations. The total raised by telent since 1999 for the NSPCC now stands at over £385,000.
- Browse telent's new website| 15 12 2008
The website is striving to achieve the highest standards of web accessibility.
- tackling West Midlands traffic congestion| 04 11 2008
The scheme is designed to reduce congestion in the West Midlands metropolitan area by linking, for the first time, each of the regions’ existing UTC centres together with the traffic systems operated by the Police, the Highways Agency and public transport operators.
- Metronet OPO system design and deployment| 29 10 2008
The drive for enhanced passenger safety and security is being driven by the scheduled introduction of modern, faster rolling stock on the Metropolitan, District, Circle, and Hammersmith & City lines.
- telent acquire Premises Networks| 23 09 2008
The acquisition is in line with telent’s strategy to grow its presence and service offering in the telecommunications sector, and strengthens its presence in the medium- to large enterprise market.
- telent exhibit at InnoTrans 2008| 25 08 2008
One of the most important public transport events on the transport calendar, InnoTrans has become an international showplace for transport technologies, including public information systems, traffic management solutions and communications.
Come and visit the telent stand in Building 2.1, Stand 231 to find out how we can help support you in rail and metro with:
- telent acquire Alan Campbell Group| 25 07 2008
The acquisition is in line with telent’s strategy to broaden its service offering to both existing and new customers, and to enter complementary adjacent markets.
- multi-£mil comms contract for Thameslink Project| 22 07 2008
telent will design, install and commission an upgraded operational communications system and cable network for the Project which is designed to cater for increased commuter demand and will also benefit visitors to the Olympics. By the end of 2012, longer 12-car trains with 50% extra capacity will be running on the route between Bedford, Central London and Brighton. There will also be a 200% increase in the number of trains running through the heart of London.
- COLT selects telent to provide communications infrastructure support to business customers| 22 05 2008
The contract with COLT, a leading supplier of data, voice and managed services to businesses and governments, will see telent employ engineers from COLT’s existing staff alongside its own field engineers. The combined workforce will plan, install, support and maintain customer communication systems across a multitude of networking platforms including IP, Ethernet and SDH.
- telent excel in Highways Agency assessment| 27 03 2008
The capability assessment now includes several new indicators increasing the focus on diversity, innovation, risk management, corporate social responsibility and putting customers at the heart of the Agency’s business.
- Schools travel wisely in the West Midlands| 04 03 2008
The website, produced for the West Midlands Local Authorities in association with Coventry based Maple Systems, aims to reduce traffic congestion during the school run by promoting greener and healthier methods of travel to and from school.
- telent acquires intelligent traffic systems group, TSEU| 03 03 2008
The acquisition is in line with telent’s strategy to grow its presence and service offering in the transportation sector, and strengthens its presence in the urban roads market. The combination of telent’s consultancy and systems integration capability and TSEU’s traffic equipment offerings and local authority customer base gives telent one of the leading positions in this market.
- First delivery of GSM-R terminals to Network Rail| 28 02 2008
Acting as sole supplier in the UK for the SELEX Communications GSM-R handsets, telent is also providing ongoing technical support to the train and freight operation companies using the radios.
- 4 th - 9 th March 2008, Hanover, Germany| 04 02 2008
CeBIT 2008 will provide an interesting meeting point for telecommunications operators, enterprises, transport operating companies, equipment vendors and public-sector organisations seeking a new approach to services and improving network reliability and utilisation.
- telent takes lead in innovative roadside technology| 29 01 2008
The grant will enable telent to manage the consortium, which includes EFKON UK, TSEU, TRL and CitySync, to develop a revolutionary data collection process to support a fairer charging environment for motorists.
- Triumphant telent celebrates reaching £50,000 target for charity| 04 01 2008
Over the year staff at telent sites across the UK have organised a range of activities from sponsored walks and runs, to family days, raffles and auctions. Many telent employees also contributed a percentage of their salaries to the cause through monthly salary donations.
- Delisting of telent plc| 05 12 2007
Following the announcement dated 15 November 2007 by Co-Investment No. 5 L.P.
- telent secures multimillion pound contract extension to maintain communications on Northern Line| 30 10 2007
The extension comes after a successful ten-year partnership with Alstom, a global leader in rail infrastructure. The multimillion-pound contract will see telent continue to provide essential maintenance of communications systems on the Northern Line, including track-to-train CCTV and track-to-train data. The delivery of these maintenance services will ensure that London Underground can support its operations with efficient communications systems.
- telent enters train operating sector with first contract from South West Trains| 22 10 2007
telent will assign a team of highly skilled telecoms engineers to provide a 24/7 service covering 184 station, depot and control room sites from London Waterloo to the South West. The engineers will be responsible for maintenance of station communications, including CCTV control rooms, public address systems, passenger help points and passenger information systems. telent will utilise its own Transport Maintenance Management System (TRAMMS) and Technical Centre, which is already used by Network Rail and other major Enterprise customers.
- telent plc wins £25 million contract to support Fire and Rescue Services| 09 10 2007
Under the contract with EADS DS, worth £25 million over eight years, telent will provide communications infrastructure to support Communities and Local Government’s FiReControl project – part of its investment in the Fire and Rescue Service to enable it to meet the challenges of today’s world. Further options are currently under discussion, which may generate additional revenue for telent.
- telent’s framework maintenance contract for Firelink Programme extended by over £7 million| 27 09 2007
The extension brings the total value of telent’s framework contract, which will run until December 2016, to £28 million. The new maintenance and support scheme extends telent’s initial scope of work to cover 24-hour, 365-day per year maintenance and support for over 10,000 in-vehicle radios and 2,000 fixed radios across Great Britain.
- telent helps BSkyB achieve major milestone in broadband roll-out programme| 03 09 2007
In just over one year since launch, Sky Broadband has become the UK’s fastest growing ISP and now provides high-speed broadband to over 700,000 Sky customers. In achieving this milestone, telent has supported Sky Network Services, Sky’s broadband infrastructure division, in its on-going Local Loop Unbundling (LLU) programme.
As the network services partner for Sky’s LLU programme, telent installs and commissions Sky Network Services ADSL platform and associated equipment into BT exchanges across the country.- telent chosen by A-one to keep communications network on the road| 23 08 2007
The three year contract with A-one Integrated Highway Services, a joint partnership between Halcrow Group Limited and Colas Limited appointed by the Highways Agency as Managing Agent Contractor (MAC) for Area 14, will see telent maintaining the communications system in an area covering over 300km of motorways and trunkroads in North Yorkshire, Durham and Northumberland.
- Colt awards telent contract to support telecommunications & IT infrastructure in Germany| 21 08 2007
This latest contract follows a similar agreement signed in May 2007 with COLT for the UK, and which has seen telent engineers work successfully alongside COLT engineers since June.
- telent and Atkins’ TechMAC contract is extended by the Highways Agency| 11 06 2007
The contract extension, worth £5 million, will see telent and Atkins working in partnership, to continue to maintain and manage motorway and trunk road communications, as well as signalling, in the entire Midlands region. A 24-hour, 365-day service will be provided to the Highways Agency, with telent and Atkins engineers and technicians located throughout the region.
- telent and Frequentis join forces| 26 05 2007
The agreement between the companies, signed today at the BAPCO conference and exhibition in London, forms the basis of a joint business development programme in the UK.
The alliance combines Frequentis’ expertise as a supplier of communication and information systems to the air traffic control, public safety, maritime and railway sectors, with telent’s experience of providing communications support services to telecommunications operators, large enterprises and public sector agencies, including the emergency services.- Cable & Wireless chooses telent for site rationalisation programme| 16 05 2007
It is anticipated that Cable & Wireless will work with telent on a site-by-site basis over the two-year period. The frame contract provides for a number of services to be selected by Cable & Wireless as required, including network planning, circuit migrations and re-provision, technical support, project management, customer equipment recovery and disposal, and logistics support.
"Cable & Wireless has been a key customer for many years and I’m pleased that we are able to support them with this important project,” said Mark Plato, CEO of telent.- telent Moves to Warwick Business Park| 30 04 2007
Mark Plato, CEO of telent, said “This is a positive and exciting move for our company. telent has a rich history, but is also a new and dynamic company. Our move from New Century Park, whilst a big step given the company’s heritage with Marconi and GEC before that, is inevitable given the changing focus of our growing business. The site was no longer suitable for the way telent has evolved and our new location will provide us with a cost-effective, environmentally efficient and flexible facility that is more appropriate to our way of working.
- telent to debut at Traffex 2007| 26 03 2007
Visitors to the telent stand (E92) will be able to see the company’s services and solutions, which encompass the four main areas of: consultancy; installation and commissioning; maintenance and systems integration. On display will be the Real-Time Passenger Information System, MATTISSE, which successfully manages real-time information from a number of sources including Local Transport Authorities, Police Control Centres and Public Transport Operators and delivers traffic and traveller information to the public via a range of channels, including the internet and mobile phones.
- telent to "Join the vision" at CeBIT 2007telent to "Join the vision" at CeBIT 2007| 01 03 2007
CeBIT is one of Europe’s largest IT and communications events and attracts over 600,000 visitors and 8,000 exhibitors.
telent will highlight its range of technology services for the enterprise and telecommunications sectors at stand C05 in Hall 12.- telent Selected to Upgrade E.ON’s Communications Network| 14 02 2007
telent will upgrade the existing SDH (Synchronous Digital Hierarchy) network to next-generation SDH systems such as OMS1664, OMS1684 and OMS840. The new network will enable E.ON to migrate its TDM-based communication traffic to Ethernet and IP-based services. The OMS-based platform enables flexible configuration, both as a cross-connect for traditional TDM services, as well as for broadband data transmission units. The network can be further upgraded to allow higher bandwidth capacity (STM-64) and WDM.
- telent Officially Opens its Network Services Centre| 14 02 2007
The opening of the centre, was carried out by Colin Campbell, Deputy Chief Executive of Chorley City Council, and Mark Plato, CEO of telent.
- telent Tops £250,000 Target for NSPCC Donation| 06 02 2007
To achieve the target, staff at telent have organised fundraising activities from auctions to golf days, and have made contributions directly from their salaries to support the NSPCC’s FULL STOP Campaign. Today, Mark Plato, CEO of telent and champion of the cause, handed over a cheque for £257,025.54 to Sophie Hutchison of the NSPCC.
- telent wins Highways Agency communications contract| 23 11 2006
The Technology Managing Agent/Contractor (TechMAC) contract will cover the motorway and part of the trunk road network across Cheshire, Lancashire, Cumbria, Merseyside and Manchester. telent has booked an initial firm order of approximately £12 million in relation to this TechMAC contract and expects to receive further variations throughout the 5 year duration.
- telent Extends Major Waterways Network In Germany| 16 11 2006
In order to carry out its operational duties efficiently, the Federal WSV operates a licence-free communications network for the federal waterways. This unique network comprises line-conducted transmission technology and switching systems and is used to transmit messages in the form of voice, video and data. A further connection is to be provided to remotely control locks.
- O2 Airwave Selects telent for Firelink Implementation| 06 10 2006
telent has been selected by O2 Airwave to support the deployment of its Airwave Communications System as part of the National Firelink Programme. The ten-year, £13 million contract will serve to enable Fire and Rescue Services in the UK to use the new Tetra Radio Communications Service provided by O2 Airwave. As part of this process, telent will install equipment in all fire appliances throughout the UK and then provide a complete support service, once they are in operational duty. This will ensure O2 Airwave delivers the most robust and reliable of communication networks.
- Easynet Awards telent Contract to Deploy LLU Access Equipment| 25 09 2006
The brief gives telent responsibility for management, installation and commissioning, including all aspects of inventory control, for Easynet’s expansion of its LLU footprint.
In addition to the management of the inventory control, telent has also secured the contract to supply installation materials (racks, cables and other infrastructure equipment).- Frequentis selects telent to provide full outsourced support services to the Metropolitan Police Service| 22 06 2006
telent announced today that it has been selected by Frequentis, an Austrian-based communications and information systems company, to provide full outsourced support services for the Metropolitan Police Service’s (MPS) Integrated Communications Control System (ICCS).
The eight-year contract will enable over five hundred operators, to communicate with police officers and staff, whilst viewing Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) monitors from across London for incident management.- telent wins first major contract| 30 01 2006
telent today announced it has been awarded its first major contract. The former Marconi’s UK and German services business that was renamed telent on the sale of Marconi’s equipment business to Ericsson will provide a turnkey project for O2 Airwave. The contract, which has a minimum duration of five years, has an estimated value of approximately £36 million.
