JT named as finalist in Guernsey Construction Awards

JT is one of three finalists in the ‘Engineering Project of the Year’ category at this year’s Guernsey Construction Awards, which will be held at Beau Sejour on Friday 14 October.

The shortlisting relates to two key projects that JT has undertaken to improve connectivity in Guernsey. The first was a three-year project, completed last December, involving connecting 46 States of Guernsey buildings to JT’s fibre-optic network, and 120 sites to an MPLS* Wide Area Network.

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Stay ahead with the latest collaboration technology

JT, in partnership with leading technology vendors such as Cisco, Avaya, Mitel, HP, and Dell, provides collaboration and unified communication solutions, for businesses of all sizes.

We have a number of promotions on hardware and infrastructure for the remainder of 2016. If you would like to discuss updating your solutions, you can contact one of our specialists using the contact details at the bottom of the page.

Cisco is a Market-leading, global organisation focused on delivering intelligent networks and technology and business architectures built on integrated products, services, and software platforms, providing a broad line of products of transporting data, voice and video to organisations of all sizes, worldwide.

Avaya is a leading global provider of next-generation business collaboration and communications solutions, providing unified communications, real-time video collaboration, contact center, networking and related services to companies of all sizes around the world. JT is an Avaya Platinum Partner and has supplied Avaya solutions to businesses such as KraftHeinz.

Mitel is a leading provider of communications solutions for a range of organisations – from small, single site businesses to large multi – site enterprise.  Mitel offer customers a broad choice of solutions, from basic communications to unified communications and virtualisation, pre-packaged to tailored applications from an outright capital purchase to a managed service.

Collaboration

For growing businesses, having intimate customer relationships and being able to respond quickly and cost-effectively to changing needs are the hallmarks of success. To stay ahead of the competition, your teams and stakeholders need to communicate effectively and act decisively. Your collaboration tools need to be easy to use and deliver exceptional results. With limited IT resources, keeping up with the latest innovations in communications and collaboration technology can seem a daunting task.

In partnership with leading technology vendors, JT is able to provide collaboration and unified communication solutions to businesses of all sizes, from SMEs to global corporations, whether their needs are on-premise infrastructure, cloud-based technology, or hybrid platforms.

  • Take collaboration to the next level with right-sized, right-priced solutions that are easy to use, manage, and deploy
  • Empower employees, customers, and partners to collaborate simply and intuitively anywhere, on any device – from the browser to the boardroom
  • Succeed at every stage of your collaboration journey with essential services that help you to plan, deploy, and support your investments

With high-definition video, voice, content sharing, messaging, and chat, our solutions help you to:

  • Improve the quality and speed of decisions
  • Increase employee engagement, mobility and productivity
  • Reduce workplace travel and IT related operating costs
  • Enhance customer relationships

To enquire about purchasing new technology, speak to a member of our team:

London: +44 20 7920 2000

Jersey: +44 1534 882345

Guernsey: +44 1481 882345

Global: +44 20 7920 2000



Breaking new ground: National Coding Week bigger and better than ever

The third annual National Coding Week (NCW), organised by Codex and sponsored by JT, was a great success with hundreds of Islanders and businesses taking up the opportunity to learn and develop digital skills.

The week’s programme of events across Jersey and Guernsey ranged from taster coding sessions and Google Analytics training, to a Lego Robot Wars Competition. There were also specific sessions for primary school children and the unemployed.

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JT nominated for telecoms ‘Oscar’

JT has been shortlisted for a World Communications Award – the ‘Oscars’ of the telecommunications industry.

Global giants such as BT, AT&T, Vodafone and Telstra have also been nominated for various awards. JT has been shortlisted in the ‘Best Connectivity Solution’ category.

The World Communication Awards is the largest awards ceremony in global telecoms. The winners will be announced at a ceremony in London in November.

JT has been shortlisted for its ground-breaking Open Roaming M2M solution. This is a managed IoT* network service which enables machines to communicate with each other via a mobile SIM card. The JT service is currently powering over a million devices worldwide, from payment systems in Africa to taxi and private hire firms in the UK.

 

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A full week of events in the CI for National Coding Week

The third annual National Coding Week, organised by Codex and sponsored by JT, will this year involve hundreds of events across the UK, Australia and the Channel Islands.

Highlights of the Channel Islands event programme include the return of FREE coding workshops including coding for the unemployed, in addition to careers advice sessions, Google Analytics workshops, craft and digital design workshops and even a three-day Robot Challenge culminating in the first Digital ACE Robo-wars.

Taking place from Monday 19th to Friday 23rd September, the objective of National Coding Week is to encourage people to try their hand at digital skills from learning the basics of coding and app development, to digital design and online marketing.

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The Tech Powering a Weekend of Unforgettable Live Music

As the Island reflects on another successful Jersey Live weekend, including unforgettable performances from Richard Ashcroft, Madness and Disclosure; headline sponsor JT reveals the technology statistics behind the CI’s biggest music event.

On JT’s mobile network:
– 45,418 voice calls made from the venue
– 169 GB of 4G data used over the weekend – equivalent to uploading 114,937 photos to Facebook, 68,962 minutes of browsing the internet or 86,203 minutes of streaming music.

On JT’s FREE Wi-Fi provided across the site:
– 27 Wi-Fi spots & over 700M of fibre installed
– 3,087 unique devices connected, with 867 GB of data transferred – equivalent for example to downloading 1156 CD’s

Social media: Snapchat was the No.1 social media platform used by 917 different people.

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For more information about the technology we used to power Jersey Live, click here.



CI’S Fastest Network just got 30% faster

Customers accessing JT’s 4G mobile network in the Channel Islands using the latest mobile handsets are now experiencing faster download speeds, thanks to a software upgrade JT has recently undertaken.

JT’s 4G network was recently independently proven by almost 600 Islanders to be the fastest and with the scheduled upgrade it further improves the customer experience.

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Crisis Management IoD

JT sponsor IoD Jersey lunch club series

JT are sponsoring a series of four IoD Jersey lunch clubs, the first of which took place on the 20th September at The Grand Hotel & Spa. The guest speaker was Richard Corrigan, Deputy CEO of Jersey Finance. His address focussed on ‘financial service and the transparency debate.’

The next session in the series takes place on Tuesday 18th October. The guest speaker will be Deputy Gavin St Pier, President of Policy and Resources for the States of Guernsey. Deputy St Pier will be speaking to the IoD members about his new role and will share his views on inter-island cooperation under the topic ‘Working better together’, a hot subject amid the recent EU referendum result. This session will also be taking place at The Grand Hotel & Spa from 12pm to 2pm and tickets are available via the IoD Jersey website.

JT announce sponsorship of IoD Jersey lunch club 



Autism Centre Receives Boost From Golf Day

The annual Autism Jersey golf day, sponsored by JT, took place on Friday 12th August at La Moye Golf Club raising £15,000 for the charity.

Good weather and yet another excellent turn-out ensured the success of the day, which involved 22 teams enjoying a round of 18 holes followed by lunch in the Clubhouse. A raffle and auction, including a golf flag signed by 2016 Ryder Cup Captain Darren Clarke, boosted the funds raised which will go directly towards the development of a purpose-built Autism Centre in Jersey.

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