Flarlandian Telecommunications Corporation

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The Flarlandian Telecommunications Corporation (known as FTC) is Flarland's leading company in the field of telecommunications. Founded in 1985 with the slow merger process of regional telephone companies (finished in 1992 when Ammer Telephones was integrated into the FTC), the company operates in Flarland and its overseas territories.

In 2015, Lenaporean conglomerate Lentel acquired 5% of the shares. Currently the FTC and its overseas operations are part of it.

History[edit | edit source]

Nashlandian-Flarlandian Telephone Company[edit | edit source]

Division from Flarlandian Post[edit | edit source]

Wembley and Whitecastle Telephone Company[edit | edit source]

By the year 1960, the telephone market was dominated by regional franchises. The only exception to the rule (that also applied to the commercial network IBC) was that the Wembley company was to operate a second region, in an area served by over five million people minimum. As a consequence it bought the Whitecastle Telephone Company, adopting the name WWTC. The former Nashlandian administrators had left the WWTC, the remainder of ther former NFTC, in 1967. Starting January 1, 1968, the company was under complete Flarlandian control. Many red telephone boxes installed by the NFTC are still in use today, despite constantly reduced usage, and now feature the FTC branding.

Flarlandian Telecommunications Corporation (1985-1994)[edit | edit source]

FTC between reforms and privatization[edit | edit source]

Privatization[edit | edit source]

Crisis and sell to Lentel[edit | edit source]

Operations[edit | edit source]

Domestic[edit | edit source]

Lentel-FTC owns Cloudy, the largest landline operator in Flarland. Its operating brands include Cloudy, a quadruple play service provider and Access, a producer of web content and former ISP. The FTC also owns Lentel Labs (formerly known as FTC Innovation), an IT services and research and development company; FTC Contact, focused in the business of managing contact centres.

In 2020, the FTC rebranded FTC Business as Lentel Business Flarland.

Overseas[edit | edit source]

The FTC operates five companies for each overseas territory:

International[edit | edit source]