PTT (, , ) was the postal, telegraph, and telephone agency of

Switzerland Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the south, France to the west, Germany to the north, and Austria and Liechtenstein to the east. Switzerland ...

, from 1928 to 1998. In the course of the international trend towards liberalisation of the

telecommunications Telecommunication, often used in its plural form or abbreviated as telecom, is the transmission of information over a distance using electronic means, typically through cables, radio waves, or other communication technologies. These means of ...

market, it was transformed into two

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companies on January 1, 1998,

Swiss Post Swiss Post Ltd ( ; ; ; ) is the national Mail, postal service of Switzerland. A public company owned by the Politics of Switzerland, Swiss Confederation, it is the country's second largest employer with about 54,000 employees. The group is ba ...

and

Swisscom Swisscom is a major telecommunications provider in Switzerland. Its headquarters are located in Worblaufen near Bern. The Swiss government owns 51% of Swisscom. According to its own published data, Swisscom holds a market share of 56% for mob ...

. While Swiss Post remained a government agency with a partial service monopoly (it was converted into a

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'' in 2013), Swisscom became a competitor on a liberalised telecommunications market and is an ''Aktiengesellschaft'' of which the Confederation holds a majority of shares. The historical documents concerning the organization and the management of the Directorate General of Posts, the District Postal Services as well as the individual post offices are accessible at the

PTT Archive The PTT Archive (formerly ''Historical Archive and Library PTT'') is the archive of the former Postal Telegraph and Telephone (Switzerland), Swiss Postal, Telegraph and Telephone Services (PTT). In 1997 PTT was split into two companies: Swiss Post ...

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Government agencies established in 1928 1928 establishments in Switzerland Organizations disestablished in 1998