Newtel Solutions
Newtel Limited is the operator of a cable television network in Jersey, Channel Islands. Newtel Solutions also provides telecommunications services including telephony and broadband.
Newtel was, prior to 1998, known as Jersey Cable Limited, a company founded by Peter Funk in 1988.
It acquired the former Rediffusion Limited cable network from British Electric Traction Limited in 1988. Jersey Cable had invested heavily in a new TV cable network, replacing the Rediffusion overhead cable system with an underground distribution network. Newtel first offered voice telephony using a Class Licence provided by the States of Jersey Telecommunications Board, then later when the market was liberalised under a Class II licence issued by the Jersey Competition Regulatory Authority in 2003.
Newtel entered the Guernsey telecommunications market in 2002 when licensed by the Office of Utility Regulation as a communications provider. Newtel Solutions holds an Irrefutable Right of Use on the Channel Islands Electric Grid telecommunications cable to France, over which it connects its communications internationally.
