GEC Plessey Telecommunications
 'GEC Plessey Telecommunications' ( 'GPT') was founded in 1988 as a telecom joint venture between 'GEC' and the historic British electronics defence and telecommunications company - 'Plessey'. A joint holding company of GEC and German conglomerate - Siemens AG acquired Plessey a year later and GPT was converted into a '60/40 GEC/Siemens joint venture'.During the mid-1990s the name GPT gradually disappeared in UK.