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TeKaDe was a German manufacturer of telecommunication equipment.
The company started with the manufacture of telephones
and was the first to install a fully operational mobile telephone network
in Germany in the early 1960s. Under Philips'
PKI umbrella, the company continued to
produce radio and telegraphy equipment such as
telex machines
and point-to-point radio links.
After several take-overs and mergers, the company became part of
Alcatel Lucent (now: Nokia).
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TeKaDe equipment on this website
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The company started life in 1906 as Felten & Guilleaume
after buying the liquidated remains of Friedrich Heller's
telephone enterprise (1858-1904).
In 1912 the name is changed to TeKaDe, which is fonetic for
TKD (Süddeutsche Telefonapparate-, Kabel- und Drahtwerke AG).
The company specializes in wireless multi-channel point-to-point radio links
for telephone networks.
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The image on the right was taken around 1905 and shows the factory
at the Allersberger Straße in Nurnberg (Germany). At that time, the company
was still called Felten & Guilleaume. The factory would later carry the
name TeKaDe and from 1982 onwards the Philips brand name.
When public radio is introduced in 1923, TeKaDe starts the production of
valves and even complete radio sets. Around 1930 the company produces approx.
100,000 valves each month. From 1934 onwards, TeKaDe produces
Volks-empfänger (People's Radios) for the Third Reich.
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In 1949, just after WWII, TeKaDe starts its first joint venture with Philips
under the name Felten & Guilleaume Fernmeldeanlagen GmbH (FGF).
The company specializes in multi-carrier equipment for telephone networks
from its newly established production facilities at
Thurn und Taxis Straße 10 in Nurnberg (Germany).
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From 1961 onwards, TeKaDe is one of the most important
manufacturers and suppliers of equipment for the first mobile radio network
in Germany: A-Netz. TeKaDe supplies the mobile stations (Fahrzeuganlage B72)
and also the network infrastructure. A-Netz soon became popular aboard trains
and ships.
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In 1982, TeKaDe is incorporated into PKI (Philips Kommunikations Industrie AG,
Philips Communication Industry).
PKI is the German sister of PTI in The Netherlands (Philips Telecommunicatie
Industrie) and the new company has R&D centers in Huizen (Netherlands)
and Nurnberg (Germany).
In Germany, certain equipment is still sold under the TeKaDe brand name.
At the height of its success in 1992,
just after the fall of the Berlin Wall, PKI sells the latest digital
data links to the former DDR. After that, the turnover of the company
decreases every year.
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In 1996, certain aspects of PKI (including the TeKaDe activities) are
taken over by US giant AT&T. Because of the deregulating of the
American market, AT&T has to be split into several individual companies,
and in 2001, the network division is separated under the name
Lucent Technologies.
Under Lucent, the former PKI development center in
Huizen/Hilversum (Netherlands) is closed and all R&D activities are
concentrated in Nurnberg again, where the migration from GSM to UMTS
is performed.
In 2006 Lucent was merged with Alcatel and continued as Alcatel-Lucent.
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