A spring assembly for use in a communications jack comprising a plurality of jack contacts (114A, 114B, 114C, 114D, 114E, 114F, 114G, 114H), the jack being configured to receive a communications plug having a plug contact (20A, 20B, 20E, 20F, 20G, 20H) corresponding to each of the plurality of jack contacts (114A, 114B, 114C, 114D, 114E, 114F, 114G, 114H), each of the plurality of jack contacts (114A, 114B, 114C, 114D, 114E, 114F, 114G, 114H) being electrically connected to a corresponding one of the plug contacts (20A, 20B, 20E, 20F, 20G, 20H) when the communications plug is received by the communications jack, the spring assembly comprising: a corresponding conductive spring member (220A, 220B, 220E, 220F, 220G, 220H) for each of the plurality of jack contacts (114A, 114B, 114C, 114D, 114E, 114F, 114G, 114H), each of the conductive spring members (220A, 220B, 220E, 220F, 220G, 220H) being electrically connected to their corresponding jack contacts (114A, 114B, 114C, 114D, 114E, 114F, 114G, 114H) and biasing the corresponding jack contact (114A, 114B, 114C, 114D, 114E, 114F, 114G, 114H) against the corresponding plug contact (20A, 20B, 20E, 20F, 20G, 20H), characterized in that each of the conductive spring members (220A, 220B, 220E, 220F, 220G, 220H) comprises a first capacitor plate (240, 242) at a respective rear-end side thereof, wherein the first capacitor plates (240, 242) are arranged to form a first capacitor assembly (C3, C4) and a second capacitor assembly (C5, C6), each of the first and second capacitor assemblies (C3, C4; C5, C6) capacitively coupling three different conductive spring members (220A, 220B, 220F; 220C, 220G, 220H) together, wherein further capacitor plates (240, 241) are arranged at respective conductive spring members (220C, 220F) between a respective first capacitor plate (240, 242) at a respective rear-end side and a respective frontend side of the respective spring members (220C, 220F) to form a first parallel plate capacitor spaced apart from the first and second capacitor assemblies (C3, C4; C5, C6) and a second parallel plate capacitor spaced apart from the first and second capacitor assemblies (C3, C4; C5, C6), each of the first and second parallel plate capacitors (C1, C2) capacitively coupling two of the conductive spring members (220C, 220E, 220F, 220C) together. a corresponding conductive spring member (220A, 220B, 220E, 220F, 220G, 220H) for each of the plurality of jack contacts (114A, 114B, 114C, 114D, 114E, 114F, 114G, 114H), each of the conductive spring members (220A, 220B, 220E, 220F, 220G, 220H) being electrically connected to their corresponding jack contacts (114A, 114B, 114C, 114D, 114E, 114F, 114G, 114H) and biasing the corresponding jack contact (114A, 114B, 114C, 114D, 114E, 114F, 114G, 114H) against the corresponding plug contact (20A, 20B, 20E, 20F, 20G, 20H), each of the conductive spring members (220A, 220B, 220E, 220F, 220G, 220H) comprises a first capacitor plate (240, 242) at a respective rear-end side thereof, wherein the first capacitor plates (240, 242) are arranged to form a first capacitor assembly (C3, C4) and a second capacitor assembly (C5, C6), each of the first and second capacitor assemblies (C3, C4; C5, C6) capacitively coupling three different conductive spring members (220A, 220B, 220F; 220C, 220G, 220H) together, wherein further capacitor plates (240, 241) are arranged at respective conductive spring members (220C, 220F) between a respective first capacitor plate (240, 242) at a respective rear-end side and a respective frontend side of the respective spring members (220C, 220F) to form a first parallel plate capacitor spaced apart from the first and second capacitor assemblies (C3, C4; C5, C6) and a second parallel plate capacitor spaced apart from the first and second capacitor assemblies (C3, C4; C5, C6), each of the first and second parallel plate capacitors (C1, C2) capacitively coupling two of the conductive spring members (220C, 220E, 220F, 220C) together.