Island Telecom was a telephone service provider

Service provider

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 in Prince Edward Island

Prince Edward Island

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Founded in 1885 as the Prince Edward Island Telephone Company (IslandTel), the company formed a formal alliance with Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia

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-based MT&T

Maritime Telephone and Telegraph Company

Maritime Telephone and Telegraph Company was founded around 1910 in Halifax, Nova Scotia and provided telecommunications solutions to Nova Scotia until 1998 when it merged with Island Telecom, NBTel, and NewTel Communications to form Aliant .Many payphones in Nova Scotia are still MTT-branded.In...

 early on, which resulted in the agreement to share the 902 area code. Don Livingstone was the CEO for a number of years

The company was renamed Island Telecom in 1998 to reflect the growing diversity of its business areas. It merged with the other Stentor Alliance

Stentor Alliance

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 companies in Atlantic Canada in 1999 to form Aliant (now Bell Aliant).