British Telecommunications Plc this week placed the latest round in its quarterly award of orders for digital local telephone exchanges under its supply contracts with Plessey, GEC and Thorn-Ericsson, and the latest award contains no surprises. GEC and Plessey share contracts totalling UKP64m for 455,000 lines of System X exchanges – the split between the two suppliers was not revealed – and second source supplier Thorn-Ericsson Telecommunications gets an UKP8m award for 70,000 lines of the AXE10 exchanges.