On 10 March 1876 Alexander Graham Bell spoke to his assistant Thomas Watson the first recognisable words ever transmitted by telephone, "Mr Watson, come here, I want you". This first articulate sentence was transmitted over 100 feet of wire.

113 years Later, Green Telecom was formed by the current directors in 1989. The companies current Managing Director, Steve Hayden, had previously completed a three year BT engineering apprenticeship and a obtained a BTEC in Telecommunications.

Green Telecom were primarily an engineering company installing telephone systems for other telecoms sales companies across the UK and quickly grew to an engineering force of 50 plus engineers covering installation and maintenance for many of the south east of England Telecoms companies. Alan Stewart joined the company in 1991 and Mike Simth in 1992.

The focus in 1995 was to move in to the system sales arena and to get things right first time, something that was not happening with some of the companies they installed for.

In June 2001, Marlon Laing and James Anderson joined the team and the company won the prestigious 'dealer of the year' award at the comms dealer awards ceremony, and in 2002 Mo Suleman joined the sales team.

In 2003, Green Telecom were again nominated for an award, this time as reseller of the year for their quality Calls and line rental services.

In October 2005, They relocated to newly purchased offices in Chesham Buckinghamshire, with state of the art telecommunications and IT wiring and systems with full call centre functionality for their customer services and a fully equipped Customer demonstration suite. Both Chrissie Jarvis and Dan Whitten joined the team at the new offices.

.2007 again saw them nominated for the VOIP solution of the year award for the largest (to date) installation of the new Panasonic KXTDA telephone system for Tripp luggage using VOIP technology connecting head office to over 150 VOIP extensions located in Debenhams stores nationwide.

In June 2008, Green Telecom launched their tree planting program to offset carbon dioxide emissions helping to prevent climate change and creating space for wildlife.

Throughout 2008, Green Telecom operated as a Carbon Positive company. Their carbon footprint was calculated and (over) offset to a Wind Energy Project in Harshnath, India. The objective of this carbon offset project is development, design, engineering, procurement, finance, construction, operation and maintenance of wind power projects totaling 4.8 MW wind power projects in the Indian state of Rajasthan to provide reliable, renewable power to the Rajasthan state electricity grid which is part of the Northern regional electricity grid. The project will lead to reduced greenhouse gas emissions because it displaces electricity from fossil fuel based electricity generation plants. The total estimated reductions from this carbon offset project are 16,591 tonnes of CO2e

2009 saw Green Telecom celebrating its 20th anniversary

In January 2010 Green Telecom again calculated their Carbon Footprint and over offset to maintain their Carbon Positive status part

In March 2010 the companies Quality systems have been successfully updated to 9001-2008 specifications

In July 2010 Green Telecom Planted 100 Biodiversity Trees throughout the UK, creating wildlife habitats and helping to secure biodiversity. For further information Click Here

August 2010 will see Green Telecom begin the transition to paperless billing part of our ongoing commitment to enhance our green credentials.

November 2010 - Green Telecoms Paperless billing system is now fully live, reducing tons of paper use and delivery CO2 emmissions. A great step forward in becomming the Green Telecom company of choice.

2011 - Contract won at Amersham Town Council to supply telephone lines, telephone system and installation of CAT 5 Cabling system.