Editing Guernsey (section)

===Infrastructure===
[[File:Guernsey Postbox type C double aperture pillar box.jpg|thumb|A Guernsey Post pillar box]]
Public services, such as water, wastewater, the two main harbours and the airport are owned and controlled by the States of Guernsey.

Electricity, and postal services have been commercialised and are now operated by companies [[Guernsey Electricity]] and [[Guernsey Post]] which are wholly owned by the States of Guernsey.

Gas is supplied by an independent private company.

In 1998, Guernsey and Jersey jointly formed the [[Channel Islands Electricity Grid]] to operate and manage the submarine cables between continental Europe and the Channel Islands.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The CIEG Ltd |url=https://www.electricity.gg/about/the-cieg/ |access-date=1 December 2017 |website=Guernsey Electric |archive-date=18 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220118182705/https://www.electricity.gg/about/the-cieg/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> The installation of these cables was originally to provide the island with a secure form of backup power but now are effectively the primary source of power with the local diesel generators providing back-up.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Channel Islands Electricity Grid Project |url=https://library.e.abb.com/public/e787fe9fe44174a3c1256e360040f3cb/Project%20Channel%20Islands%2090%20kV%20XLPE%20subm-land-.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160128185306/https://library.e.abb.com/public/e787fe9fe44174a3c1256e360040f3cb/project%20channel%20islands%2090%20kv%20xlpe%20subm-land-.pdf |archive-date=28 January 2016 |url-status=live |access-date=1 December 2017 |website=ABB}}</ref>

[[Guernsey Telecoms]], which provided telecommunications, was sold by the States to [[Cable & Wireless plc]], rebranded as [[Sure (company)|Sure]] and was sold to [[Batelco|Batel co]] in April 2013. Newtel was the first alternative telecommunications company on the island and was acquired by Wave Telecom in 2010<ref>{{Cite news |date=25 August 2009 |title=Wave buys Newtel |work=Guernsey Press |url=https://guernseypress.com/news/2009/08/25/wave-buys-newtel/ |access-date=30 November 2017}}</ref> and subsequently rebranded as [[Jersey Telecom]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Guernsey – A fresh look to mark the tenth birthday of Wave Telecom |url=https://jtglobal.com/Guernsey/super-footer/Latest-News/2012/A-fresh-look-to-mark-the-tenth-birthday-of-Wave-Telecom/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201041428/https://jtglobal.com/Guernsey/super-footer/Latest-News/2012/A-fresh-look-to-mark-the-tenth-birthday-of-Wave-Telecom/ |archive-date=1 December 2017 |access-date=30 November 2017 |website=JT Global}}</ref> [[Airtel-Vodafone]] also provide a mobile network.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Guernsey Airtel Launches Services |url=http://www.airtel.in/about-bharti/media-centre/bharti-airtel-news/corporate/pg_guernsey+airtel+launches+services |access-date=30 November 2017 |website=Airtel}}</ref>

Both the [[Guernsey Post]] postal boxes (since 1969) and the telephone boxes (since 2002) are painted blue, but otherwise are identical to their British counterparts, the red [[pillar box]] and [[red telephone box]]. In 2009 the telephone boxes at the bus station were painted yellow just like they used to be when Guernsey Telecoms was state-owned. The oldest pillar box still in use in the British Isles can be found in Union Street, St Peter Port, and dates back to 1853.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Well adapted for the purpose... |date=23 November 2012 |url=https://postalheritage.wordpress.com/2012/11/23/well-adapted-for-the-purpose/ |publisher=The British Postal Museum & Archive blog}}</ref>