Illuminatia Telephone and Teletext
Illuminatia Telephone and Teletext (IT&T)
21 4th Street, Ellington
Illuminatia Telephone and Teletext (IT&T) is telecommunications company based in Ellington, providing telephone, teletext, and other data telecommunications services continent-wide. IT&T is the largest telecommunications provider in Illuminatia, however does not possess a monopoly.
IT&T rose to prominence thanks in large part to its centrally-located technical headquarters in interior central Illuminatia. This positioned IT&T's core infrastructure at the crossroads of wired communications services for many regional telecommunications providers in Illuminatia, making the company's services invaluable to the communications infrastructure of the continent.
The telecommunications sector in Illuminatia avoided a monopoly situation as a result of the relative strength of regional telephone companies in western, northern, and eastern Illuminatia, providing quality competition to IT&T on a continental scale for long-distance connectivity. Meanwhile, the refusal on principle by the Illuminatian government and local tertiary assemblies to grant local monopolies on consumer telecommunications services meant that there was always adequate consumer choice and competition among telecom providers within the Adamopolitan river valley of interior central Illuminatia where IT&T was founded. The fact that local telecommunications infrastructure was always largely the responsibility of individual cities throughout Illuminatia meant that no commercial entity would ever have a chance at building a monopoly by virtue of infrastructure design.
IT&T, like other telecommunications providers, is a user of the backbone of Illuminatian wired and wireless communications upon which the Monetary Unit and the Polling and Balloting Network exchange their data. IT&T, from early in the development of Illuminatia's telecommunications infrastructure, has been involved as both a consumer of services on this network as well as a partner in developing the network through public-private partnerships. As a basic tenet of Illuminatian governmental philosophy, these public-private partnerships however were not allowed to provide access to anticompetitive controls over the telecom marketplace for companies like IT&T, and IT&T and its competitors are all equally granted access to the services of the network.