Telent

Telent Technology Services Limited is a British radio, telecommunications, and digital infrastructure systems installation and services provision company, formed in 2006¹ on completion of the break-up of the GEC conglomerate. Since 2025 it has been a subsidiary of M Group Services. The Telent name has been used since 2006 for those parts of the United Kingdom and German services businesses of Marconi Corporation (formerly General Electric Company, GEC) which had not been acquired by Ericsson in that year. Companies with Marconi in their name can trace their ultimate origins, through mergers and takeovers, to The Marconi Company Ltd., founded by Guglielmo Marconi in 1897¹ as The Wireless Telegraph & Signal Company. The firm was acquired by the Pension Insurance Corporation in 2007. Between 2008 and 2013, Telent secured contracts from large British companies, including Network Rail and Openreach, and completed several acquisitions in the telecoms services sector. In September 2017, Edmund Truell purchased Telent; two years later, J.C. Flowers obtained a sizeable stake in the business. In August 2025, Telent was acquired by M Group Services (a business of CVC Capital Partners).

Telent Technology Services Limited is a British radio, telecommunications, and digital infrastructure systems installation and services provision company, formed in 2006 on completion of the break-up of the GEC conglomerate. Since 2025 it has been a subsidiary of M Group Services. The Telent name has been used since 2006 for those parts of the United Kingdom and German services businesses of Marconi Corporation (formerly General Electric Company, GEC) which had not been acquired by Ericsson in that year. Companies with Marconi in their name can trace their ultimate origins, through mergers and takeovers, to The Marconi Company Ltd., founded by Guglielmo Marconi in 1897 as The Wireless Telegraph & Signal Company. The firm was acquired by the Pension Insurance Corporation in 2007. Between 2008 and 2013, Telent secured contracts from large British companies, including Network Rail and Openreach, and completed several acquisitions in the telecoms services sector. In September 2017, Edmund Truell purchased Telent; two years later, J.C. Flowers obtained a sizeable stake in the business. In August 2025, Telent was acquired by M Group Services (a business of CVC Capital Partners).

Operations

The company provides a range of network and communications services to industries including Rail, Traffic, Public Safety, Defence, Service Providers, Enterprise and Public Sector. Products include enterprise software systems, emergency services communications and logistics, integrated warehouse logistics systems and rail and metro systems. Customers include BAE Systems, BT, National Highways, HM Coastguard, Interoute, London Ambulance Service, Merseyside Fire & Rescue, Metropolitan Police, Network Rail, RNLI, Sky, Transport for London, Virgin Media and Vodafone. The company has many operational sites within the UK and Ireland, including at Chorley in Lancashire, Warwick, Camberley in Surrey, Harbour Exchange in London, and Dublin. A team of telecommunications technicians and engineers provide support and new features development for the TDM System X network used by BT, Virgin Media, Kingston Communications, Vodafone, and Gibtelecom.

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