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Marconi in takeover talks
News Shares in Marconi rose sharply on Monday morning after the UK telecoms manufacturer confirmed it is in talks about a possible merger or acquisition. In a statement, Marconi said it was in "discussions with third parties about potential business...
[August 8, 2005, 11:50]
Marconi sells US unit to shrink debt mountain
News Marconi has sold its North American Access (NAA) unit to US-based Advanced Fibre Communications for around $240m (£133m) in cash. Marconi's NAA business is Ebitda positive, recording a profit of about £3m on sales of £55m in the six months ended 30...
[January 6, 2004, 13:45]
Marconi settles its debts
News Marconi has cleared off the last of the $1.2bn debt left after its financial rescue 16 months ago. He has overseen the sale of almost £500m worth of assets on the way to eliminating Marconi's borrowings.
[September 6, 2004, 12:15]
Ericsson Marconi OMS 1600 kit lost by UPS parcel company
Talkback We found some Ericsson Marconi OMS 1600 telecommunications equipment at a public auction. UPS - an international parcel company use this auction to dispose of goods from their lost property or overgoods department.
[November 14, 2009, 17:40]
Axe wielded at Marconi
News Marconi is to cut 800 jobs in the UK after failing to land any of the contracts for the £10bn upgrade of BT's infrastructure last month. BT will replace its circuit-switched networks with a single IP-based network as part of the 21st Century...
[May 6, 2005, 16:00]
Google founders win Marconi engineering award
News The two ex-Stanford students who founded Google, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, have been named the 2004 Fellows of the Marconi Foundation at Columbia University. According to the organisers of the award, Brin and Page "will donate their award money...
[September 23, 2004, 14:50]
BT to announce Marconi smart payphone deal
News BT is set to announce that it is teaming up with Marconi to roll out tens of thousands of high-tech payphones across the UK. Marconi is expected to pay the bill for installing the new equipment, in return for a share of the revenue -- which could...
[December 10, 2001, 15:53]
Troubled Marconi trims yet more jobs
News Marconi, which has cut half its workforce in the last two years to a current level of 8,000, is to cut another 1,000, concentrating this latest round of redundancies in Liverpool and Coventry. Marconi, which grew out of the defence firm GEC...
[August 9, 2002, 11:27]
Ericsson 'in talks to buy Marconi'
Talkback So Ericsson outbids Marconi for BT's 21CN business - the supply of Softswitches to replace narrowband Exchanges - and then seeks to buy Marconi. Surely not so that it can supply the soon-to-be ex-Marconi Softswitch to BT?
[October 12, 2005, 8:53]
Ericsson plus Marconi equals powerful European competitor
Talkback Marconi was the number-two world player in optical transmission (its products were made by Ericsson for years).endquote Marconi's optical transmission products are RESOLD by Ericsson, not made by them.
[October 27, 2005, 9:32]
BT rejection leaves Marconi in the soup
News UK telecoms equipment maker Marconi is struggling to come to terms with its failure to win a contract to help build BT's 21st Century Network. Union officials fear that thousands of jobs are at risk, after Marconi warned that "all strategic options...
[May 3, 2005, 17:10]
Ericsson Marconi OMS 1600 kit lost by UPS parcel company
Talkback We found some Ericsson Marconi OMS 1600 telecommunications equipment at a public auction. UPS - an international parcel company use this auction to dispose of goods from their lost property or overgoods department.
[November 14, 2009, 16:18]
More woe for Marconi
News Shares in troubled telecoms equipment manufacturer Marconi fell on Tuesday morning after experts warned that the company was unlikely to stage a strong recovery in the near future. Analysts at Goldman Sachs announced that they were maintaining...
[August 14, 2001, 11:42]
Ericsson plus Marconi equals powerful European competitor
News Ericsson confirmed today that it will purchase the majority of the assets of Marconi for £1.2bn. Marconi shareholders will receive £2.50-3.00 per share in cash in the first three months of 2006, close to the price the shares were trading at before...
[October 25, 2005, 14:35]
Ericsson wins battle for Marconi
News Ericsson has done a deal to buy parts of Marconi's business. In a statement issued at 7:00(BST) this morning, Sweden's Ericsson makes it clear it is most interested in Marconi's transmission offerings, saying the UK company's optical technologies...
[October 25, 2005, 11:25]
Ericsson 'in talks to buy Marconi'
News Swedish telecoms giant Ericsson is in takeover talks with British rival Marconi, according to reports. Marconi is effectively up for sale, having failed to secure a contract to provide the intelligence for BT's 21st Century Network (21CN).
[October 10, 2005, 9:45]
Ericsson 'in talks to buy Marconi'
Talkback Journo-speak dictionary: According to reports=We copied this from a newspaper. It's not our job to confirm things like this, we're just bloggers. Don't worry that our headline isn't true, we'll just put it in quotes to indicate somebody else said...
[October 10, 2005, 13:50]
Ericsson wins battle for Marconi
Talkback This is Great News! Congratulations to Ericsson.
[October 27, 2005, 5:29]
Tuning Employees Back Onto e-Learning
White Papers Headquartered in London, Marconi has research and development facilities in 19 countries, manufacturing operations in 16 countries and customers in over 100 countries. Marconi's primary focus had been on returning the business to stability and...
[May 12, 2006, 0:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Long faces at Marconi, as BT's decision not to buy any of the company's kit for its huge 21CN network initiative has halved the share price and led to predictions of the company being broken up and sold off in bits.
[April 29, 2005, 20:10]
