Telecommunications Services of Trinidad and Tobago Limited

Business View Caribbean 3 Tobago holding 51 percent of the share capital and Cable and Wireless (West Indies) Limited, the other 49 percent. TEXTEL was charged with the responsibility of providing and maintaining telephone links, including transmission, switching, and signaling facilities, be- tween the country and the rest of the world. Over the years, the country’s phone system expanded with major development programs taking place during the mid-1980s. In 1991, there was a merger between TELCO, which provided local telephone services and TEXTEL, which provided international communication. The result was the Telecommunications Services of Trinidad and Tobago (TSTT) Limited, which, today is jointly owned by National Enterprises Limited (NEL) - which in turn is majority owned by the Government of Trinidad and Tobago - and Cable and Wireless (West Indies) Limited. (National Enterprises Limited is an investment holding company that was formed to consolidate the Govern- ment’s shareholding in select state enterprises and in AT A GLANCE WHO: Telecommunications Services of T&T (TSTT) WHAT: The country’s largest provider of commu- nications solutions to the residential and commer- cial markets WHERE: Headquarters in Port of Spain, Trinidad WEBSITE : www.tstt.co.tt Testing 4G LTE installations for TSTT nationwide broadband access strategy