guyana telephone and telegraph company type subsidiary industry telecommunications founded 1991 headquarters gt & t telephone house 69 brickdam georgetown guyana key people justin nedd ceo products wireless telephone internet owner 80 % owned by atlantic tele network inc 20 % owned by the government of guyana number of employees 650 website www.gtt.co.gy the guyana telephone and telegraph company is a fixed local exchange carrier lec based in guyana south america . it is the largest provider of telecommunication services in guyana with a subscriber base exceeding three hundred thousand in a country with an average population of seven hundred thousand . 1 its parent company is the atlantic tele network . contents 1 history 2 services 3 structure 4 senior management team 5 competitors 6 references 7 external links history edit as part of its economic reform program the government of guyana chose to privatize telecommunications toward the end of the 1980s . in 1990 the atlantic tele network bought 80 % of guyana s telecommunications infrastructure from the government ; gt & t was opened january 28 1991 . by september 2004 more than 195 million was invested to update and expand the infrastructure throughout guyana . 2 services edit gt & t provides local long distance and international voice services ; they also offer prepaid cards for use with land lines . international voice traffic is carried for gt & t by verizon ; international collect calling is provided through agreements with at & t sprint verizon call home telecom bell canada telus and british telecom . the earth station in thomas lands georgetown receives and relays international voice and data traffic . gt & t provides wireless tdma and gsm services under the names cellink and cellink plus ; a prepaid service is also available with the freedom phone and its prepaid cards . their data provision is through the gt & t frame relay network hosted with nortel solutions . dsl service is available for business and residential customers through their guyana online gol service ; internet traffic for gt & t is handled by uunet technologies . gt & t recently july 2010 completed guyana s first submarine fiber optic cable which is launched under the brand name emagine . gt & t also publishes the guyana telephone directory . structure edit many of the main offices are located in georgetown guyana . the corporate headquarters campus is divided into the telephone house which holds the commercial headquarters of the company as well as customer service call centers and the operator service center . the executive suite which has its own entrance parking and security houses the office space of key employees and executives . the human resources offices have a separate building . the residential service unit houses the residential and government services offices and the collections office . the central telegraph office houses telegram and telegraph services accounting and finance departments and the office of the director of customer services . the technical headquarters in the thomas lands area also houses the international earth station . the east coast office is located in beteverwagting demerara . in addition to the regional manager is also houses the domestic satellite station . other commercial offices are located in retrieve linden and new amsterdam berbice . gt & t also owns a web enabled outsourcing call center to latin america and the caribbean atlantic tele center inc. based just outside georgetown guyana . senior management team edit founder principal shareowner cornelius b prior board of directors justin benincasa chairman leonard slap barry fougere xun xi john audet chief executive officer justin nedd chief technical officer russell davis chief commercial officer gert post competitors edit gt & t s main competitor is european based digicel headquartered in kingston jamaica . 3 references edit cia 10 january 2006 . guyana . the world factbook . retrieved 2006 03 27 . gt & t 26 september 2004 . about gt & t pdf . retrieved 2006 03 27 . digicel . retrieved 2006 03 27 . external links edit corporate website atlantic tele network website gt & t wireless guyana online retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title guyana telephone and telegraph company & oldid 694982001 categories companies of guyanapublic utilitiestelecommunications companies of the caribbean navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 12 december 2015 at 23 13 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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