Oriental Telephone and Electric Co
Alderman’s House, Alderman’s Walk, Bishopsgate, London
1881 The company was registered February 4, 1881, as the Oriental Telephone Co
1892 the name was changed as above.
1894 it was decided to reconstruct the company, in order to carry through an arrangement with holders of vendors’ shares, and the present company was registered March 12, 1894.
1903 The company has obtained from the government of India a renewal of its telephone licences tor a period of sixty years from April 1, 1903, subject to certain conditions of optional purchase by the government after a lapse of 20 years, and a license for 31 years, dating from 1903, from the government of the Straits Settlements for Singapore.
By 1908 the company had large holdings in the Telephone Company of Egypt, Limited, the China and Japan Telephone and Electric Co, Limited, the Bengal Telephone Co, Limited, and the Bombay Telephone Co, Limited.