GEC Plessey Telecommunications

GEC Plessey Telecommunications (GPT)
Company typeJoint Venture
Industrytelecommunications
PredecessorGEC
Plessey
Founded1988
Defunct1998
FateMerged into Marconi Communications
(1998)
Amalgamated into Siemens Communications
(1998)
SuccessorMarconi Communications
Siemens Communications
Owner
  • GEC / Plessey (50/50) (1988–1989)
  • GEC / Siemens (60/40) (1989–1998)
  • GEC (1998)
Websitegpt.co.uk at the Wayback Machine (archived 1997-12-11)

GEC Plessey Telecommunications (GPT) was a British manufacturer of telecommunications equipment, notably the System X telephone exchange. The company was founded in 1988 as a joint venture between GEC and the British electronics, defence and telecommunications company Plessey. The next year, after a joint holding company of GEC and the German conglomerate Siemens acquired Plessey, GPT was converted into a 60/40 GEC/Siemens joint venture. The GPT name ceased to be used in the mid-1990s, and in 1998 the company was amalgamated into Siemens Communications.

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