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| telent Acquires the Alan Campbell Group telent has acquired the Alan Campbell Group (ACG), a communications infrastructure provider in the UK telecommunications and broadcast sectors. 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. Warwick-based ACG employs around 240 people and has annual revenues in excess of £20 million. Established in 1980, ACG provides a range of end-to-end solutions across the UK - from network design, microwave and cellular installation and commissioning to logistical and technical support services, and major construction and broadcast site services. ACG's main customer base includes (in alphabetical order); Airwave, Arqiva, Ericsson, National Grid Wireless, Nokia (now NSN), Orange, T-Mobile and Vodafone. ACG will continue to operate as a distinct business in its own right within telent, and the ACG customer-focused culture of excellent delivery and quality will be protected and developed. As a result of this transaction, ACG will now have access to a broader range of skills and capabilities, creating the potential to deliver a wider range of services, and reducing risks of dependencies on individual contracts. The addition of ACG reinforces telent's offering in wireless infrastructure services, and opens up a new business in broadcast services for the company. ACG's existing installation and design skills and field force of over 160 people, will also complement telent's 1,000-strong engineering field force. Through the acquisition, telent's market reach will now extend to include the broadcast services sector, which is set to grow strongly as the UK Government moves to complete the UK Digital Switchover Project by 2012 (DSO). write your comments about the article :: © 2008 Networking News :: home page |