Jersey Telecom
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| JT | |
| Industry | Telecommunications |
| Founded | 1888 |
| Headquarters | Saint Helier, Jersey and St Peter Port, Guernsey |
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Key people
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Graeme Millar (CEO) John Stares (Non-Executive Chairman) |
| Products | |
| Services | Data center services |
| Owner | States of Jersey |
| Subsidiaries | Jersey Telecom Limited Wave Telecom Limited Wave Data Services Limited Jersey Telecom (UK) Limited |
| Website | www |
JT Group Limited (doing business as JT) is the parent company of several subsidiaries including Jersey Telecom Limited and Wave Telecom Limited. Jersey Telecom is the former monopoly operator in the Bailiwick of Jersey.
JT provides telecommunications, Internet access and other services, mostly within the Channel Islands.
The first telephone exchange was opened in Jersey in 1888 by the Western Counties and South Wales Telephone Company but the service was suspended in 1891. A telephone number first featured in a Jersey Times and British Press advert – H Elliot’s Springfield Nursery & 34 King Street Telephone No 18 – on 18 August 1888. The exchange which was installed on the first floor of 66 Bath Street on the corner of Minden Place was taken over in 1895 when the company was incorporated into the National Telephone Company (NTC) and is very close to the present day main exchange building in Saint Helier. This exchange was moved to 2 New Street in 1901. The Jersey exchange network was taken over in 1912 by the British General Post Office (GPO) when the NTC licence expired, and then comprised some 14 magneto exchanges and 1,313 subscribers. The GPO offered the system to the States of Jersey but the offer was declined. The GPO managed the system until it was again offered to and then bought by the States of Jersey in 1923 for £32,000 (approximately £1.3 million today), and named the States Telephone Department. On takeover there were still 14 exchanges with a total of 1,598 subscribers. The Post Office awarded the States a thirty-year licence with a royalty of 10% of revenue per annum. The first Engineer Manager was Alfred Rosling Bennett MIEE, a renowned telephone engineer who had previously assisted the States of Guernsey and Kingston-upon-Hull Corporation set up their telephone systems. Off island communications continued to be operated by the GPO.
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