Comtech designs and produces telecommunications hardware.
Rolm, which produces telecommunications equipment, also had reported to Mr. Kuehler.
Celestica will take over the plant, which produces telecommunications and Internet equipment for the Latin American market, while continuing to supply NEC's Brazilian subsidiary.
Though he is a Motorola devotee, Mr. Simmons announced last week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas that he was going into partnership with VTech Connect Ltd. and Shared Technologies Cellular to produce telecommunications products, including phones and two-way messaging devices.
Marconi has been troubled since its strategy of focusing largely on producing and selling telecommunications equipment collapsed last year, when its customers, telephone companies, reduced spending.
And it took more than five years to produce the 1996 Telecommunications Act, which itself was the first major overhaul of telecommunications law since the Communications Act of 1934.
The technology could be used to produce batteries for telecommunications equipment, military vehicles and hybrid gas-electric cars that employ start-and-stop engine systems.
The era of virtually free capital for favored companies, largely in technology and telecommunications, produced more overcapacity than anyone understood even in 2001.
A £100m government splurge on the defence industry, it calculated, would generate £227m in economic impact less than the same slug of money for construction or carmaking would produce, but above telecommunications, pharmaceuticals and indeed banking.
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