Services
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.
Read more about this topic: Guyana Telephone And Telegraph Company
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