The South Wales high-tech industry received a boost last week as Cardiff-based Autophon UK Ltd won a contract worth around UKP3m from British Telecommunications Plc to supply it with network terminating units and line cards to use on British Telecom’s 64Kbps Kilostream service: Autophon will be shipping the units out at the rate of 1,000 a month to British Telecom, which will then make them available to customers – typically banks, travel agents and building societies.
