CTT
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Public limited company
A public limited company is a limited liability company that sells shares to the public in United Kingdom company law, in the Republic of Ireland and Commonwealth jurisdictions....
—is the national postal service
Mail
Mail, or post, is a system for transporting letters and other tangible objects: written documents, typically enclosed in envelopes, and also small packages are delivered to destinations around the world. Anything sent through the postal system is called mail or post.In principle, a postal service...
of Portugal
Portugal
Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...
. The acronym CTT comes from Correios, Telégrafos e Telefones—Post, Telegraph and Telephone
Postal Telegraph and Telephone
A postal, telegraph, and telephone service is a government agency responsible for postal mail, telegraph, and telephone services. Such monopolies existed in many countries, though not in North America or Japan. Many PTTs have been partially or completely privatized in recent years...
—the former name of the postal administration. CTT has become a public limited company
Public limited company
A public limited company is a limited liability company that sells shares to the public in United Kingdom company law, in the Republic of Ireland and Commonwealth jurisdictions....
in 1991, but all the capital is still controlled by the Portuguese government
Government of Portugal
The Government is one of the four sovereignty organs of the Portuguese Republic. It is also the organ that conducts politics in general in the country and is also the superior body in public administration...
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In 2007, CTT started to offer a mobile phone service in Portugal
Portugal
Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...
, under the brand name Phone-ix.
CTT was also the designation of the postal services of the former Portuguese Colonies
Portuguese Empire
The Portuguese Empire , also known as the Portuguese Overseas Empire or the Portuguese Colonial Empire , was the first global empire in history...
. It is still the designation of the Macau Postal Service
CTT (Macau)
Correios de Macau , formerly CTT Correios de Macau, is a department under the Government of Macau responsible for postal services....
.
The CTT group
The CTT group includes the following subsidiaries:- CTT Correios: national and international regular mail delivering company;
- CTT Expresso: national and international express mail service;
- Mailtec: management and information systems research & development company;
- PostContacto: non addressed mail delivering company;
- Campos Envelopagem: direct marketing and editorial mail company;
- PayShop: utility services pay net service;
- Phone-ix: mobile communications operator;
- Tourline Express: express mail service (SpainSpainSpain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
).
History
- 1520: King Manuel IManuel I of PortugalManuel I , the Fortunate , 14th king of Portugal and the Algarves was the son of Infante Ferdinand, Duke of Viseu, , by his wife, Infanta Beatrice of Portugal...
creates the public mail service of Portugal, the Correio Público—Public Post Office. - 1533: the first postal service regulation in Portugal.
- 1753: the first financial mails regulations in Portugal.
- 1821: the beginning of house-to-house mail delivering in Portugal.
- 1880: the fusion of the Post Office and the Telegraphs Department in one single service, the Department of Posts, Telegraphs and Lighthouses—Direcção-Geral de Correios, Telégraphos e Faróis.
- 1911: the department received administrative and financial autonomy from the Portuguese State and become the General Administration of Posts, Telegraphs and Telephones—Administração-Geral dos Correios, Telégrafos e Telefones—adopting the CTT acronym which was kept until today, even after the several changes of official name.
- 1953: CTT adopts the horse rider logo. The logo represents an ancient postman rider of the CTT, announcing his arrival with a bugle. The logo was reformed three times, the last one in 2004.
- 1969: CTT becomes a State Company, adopting the name CTT Correios e Telecomunicações de Portugal—CTT Posts and Telecommunications of Portugal.
- 1992: the telecommunicationTelecommunicationTelecommunication is the transmission of information over significant distances to communicate. In earlier times, telecommunications involved the use of visual signals, such as beacons, smoke signals, semaphore telegraphs, signal flags, and optical heliographs, or audio messages via coded...
s service is separated from the CTT, becoming an autonomous company. At the same time, CTT become a public limited companyPublic limited companyA public limited company is a limited liability company that sells shares to the public in United Kingdom company law, in the Republic of Ireland and Commonwealth jurisdictions....
(with all shares owned by the Portuguese government), adopting the name CTT Correios de Portugal—CTT Posts of Portugal.
External links
- CTT official website