Further disengaging from activities it now deems non-core, British Telecommunications Plc is offloading the manufacturing division of its Fulcrum Communications business to Fujitsu Ltd, but will retain a 25.1% stake in the new Fulcrum Communications Ltd. Terms were not disclosed. The business to be transferred makes and markets public switched telephone network equipment such as call monitoring and logging products, call queuing, exchange monitoring and fibre optic tools. The equipment is mainly used on British Telecom’s network. The company is based in Birmingham and will remain there, with the manufacturing base keeping the name Fulcrum Communications Ltd and the sales and services side remaining wholly-owned by British Telecom and taking the name BT Repair Services Ltd. Sales and services employs around 60 people, the other 560 employees work on the manufacturing side of the company and will be employed by Fulcrum Communications Ltd. Last May Fujitsu established a telecommunications research and development centre in London and this will provide engineering support to the new company. In September, British Telecom sold Fulcrum’s telephone manufacturing operations to STC Plc. Completion of the transaction is expected on April 2 1991.
