You always get a bigger welcome on a major visit when you have a big order in your pocket, so Boris Yeltsin is doubly welcome thanks to a ?45m order to GEC Plessey Telecommunications Ltd for System X digital exchanges for Moscow: it will be supplying a number of System X switches and some transmission equipment, and the company sees the order as a first step to winning the entire Moscow network for System X – likely with some local assembly; GEC Plessey already has a presence there with its Comstar joint venture with the Moscow Telecommunications Network.
