Overseas Telecommunications Commission

66: 340: 128: 399: 25: 366:, and was charged with responsibility for all international telecommunications services into, through and out of Australia. In effect, all overseas telecommunications was nationalized. Australia was adopting a Commonwealth-wide policy that had been adopted at the Commonwealth conference in 1945. The main goal was to end the artificial routing of traffic to cable or wireless depending on private financial profits. 491: 440: 252: 944:, a record amount of traffic was sent over Australia's international telecommunications channels. 9,408,254 words were sent over 22 leased channels which operated for some 5465 hours. 6730 radiotelephone calls were handled and 2296 phototelegrams were sent. 285 hours of radio broadcasts were sent over R/T channels. 565:

Throughout rapid developments in undersea cable networks, global satellite systems and burgeoning digital technologies, OTC maintained a keen watch over its services to ensure continued quality. It also maintained and developed its links with maritime services, one of the initial arms of Australia's

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18 July: Representatives from American, Japanese and Australian telecommunications organisations met at an international telephone conference to herald implementation of the new CCITT No 6 telephone signalling process. This process had been 15 years in the making, through international research and

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The commission's role was the establishment, maintenance and operation of telecommunications services between Australia and other countries. Through the OTC communications, telegram, telephone, telex and photo-telegrams were relayed to other countries around the globe. To undertake these functions

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When first established by an Act of Parliament in 1946, Australia's international telecommunications carrier – OTC – inherited facilities which had been depleted during World War II, and faced rising costs and falling profits. From this tenuous beginning, the organisation was to grow over the years

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On 1 February 1992 it was merged with Australia's domestic telecommunications carrier, the Australian Telecommunications Corporation ("Telecom Australia") to create the Australian and Overseas Telecommunications Corporation (AOTC). The new organisation underwent a corporate identity review and was

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2 June: Amendments to the Overseas Telecommunications Act were announced, paving the way for OTC to expand its sales of developed software and provide consultancy services on communications systems to foreign countries. OTC announced the formation of OTC International Limited as its wholly owned

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OTC's history shows how, by internal restructuring, upgrading its public image, making long-term investments in technologies and networks, and becoming a major player in international cooperative efforts, it played a vital role in the provision of Australia's international communications.

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27 July: Delegates from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Singapore and Malaya, Hong Kong, Sarawak, India, Pakistan, Brunei and North Borneo met in Kuala Lumpur to discuss the construction of a proposed new telephone link between Australia and SE Asia: the Seacom

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25 January: Commonwealth Telecommunications Interim Board met for the first time. The board was formed by the federal government to advise on the structure of the new telecommunications body which would result from the merger of Telecom and

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the commission was part owner of overseas cables and international satellite facilities and it also operated international and coastal radio services in Australia and its territories. The OTC could well call itself and its services ‘

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23 June: Australia's first permanent Internet connection is established using OTC facilities. A 56k satellite connection is commissioned between OTC's Oxford Falls Earth Station in Sydney with Sunset Beach Satellite Earth Station in

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November: NASA announced that the Intelsat satellite communications system would be used for its manned space flights to the moon. The Australian government gave its consent for the construction of an SES at Carnarvon, Western

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18 April: OTC's Midas (Multimode International Data Acquisition Service) came into commercial operation, providing Australian organisations with fast access to overseas information banks through use of advanced computer-based

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6 June: OTC launched its Switched Digital service the first international product based on ISDN technology. The service allowed the high-speed transfer of text, data and images, high-speed facsimile and interactive video and

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June: Tests conducted with the RMS Orlon as part of a series of experiments on the development of circuits to handle radiotelephone traffic with small ships in local waters, and overseas vessels leaving/entering Australian

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October: The world's first TASI-B (Time Assignment Speech Interpolation) equipment came into operation at OTC's Paddington terminal, effectively doubling the capacity of the COMPAC cable and 38 of the Seacom cable

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March: Preliminary trials of air to ground radiotelephone services for Qantas conducted (concluding 1.4.74). Full-scale experimental trials began for Qantas flights over the Indian and Pacific Oceans.

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February: Representatives from OTC attended meetings in Rome and Tokyo to discuss investment plans for a world satellite communications network with European countries, the Japanese and the Americans.

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25 November: First satellite television link-up between Australia and England was made possible because the first Intelsat II satellite did not reach synchronous orbit over the Pacific Ocean.

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March: OTC's year-end figures showed that the revenue from international telephone services exceeded those of international telegraph services for the first time in the commission's history.

1214:. OTC was one of the founding signatories to agreements setting forth interim arrangements; ensuring Australia's participation in the development of a global satellite communications system. 1126:

2 June: The final splice was made on the trans-Tasman section of the COMPAC cable. OTC technician, Orme Cooper, made the first direct voice contact over the cable from Sydney to New Zealand.

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December: David M Hoare appointed Chairman of OTC, following Alan Coates's resignation. The last in a chain of four earth stations in the Antarctic was completed by OTC at Macquarie Island.

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14 May: Representatives from 10 countries, including Australia, met at OTC House to sign a document committing those nations, in principle, to start work on a new trans-Pacific cable:

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9 November: Australia became the first nation in the world to use satellite systems for domestic communications when 24 voice circuits were opened between Carnarvon SES and Moree SES.

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17 April: Harold White, General Manager of OTC, was appointed chairman of the newly formed Commonwealth Telecommunications Council at its inaugural meeting held in London 17–28 April.

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signed a Caretaker and Management Agreement under which AWA continued to control and operate radio services until such time as the commission had the resources to assume full control.

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1 February: Flat rates introduced for traffic to major foreign zones from Australia. Commercial rates to most foreign destinations also amended. All rates increased by 3d per word.

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February: OTC's automatic message relay system became operational at the Paddington terminal. Carnarvon SES began service on a part-time basis as a TTC&M station for Intelsat.

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1 April: Ownership and control of Cable & Wireless's assets in Australia passed to OTC. All staff except those hired locally at Fanning Island and Suva became members of OTC.

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29 March: OTC International signed its first agreement with island communities in the South Pacific to become members of the Pacific Area Cooperative Telecommunications Network.

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December: The Sydney-Hobart became the first yacht race in the world to be monitored using satellite communications. An AWA radio vessel was equipped with an Inmarsat terminal.

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5 December: A Construction and Maintenance Agreement was signed by OTC and 35 other countries in Canberra for the new A$ 800 million South Pacific optical fibre cable network.

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October: OTC hosted the 8th South Pacific Regional Telecommunications meeting to discuss requirements and progress of telecommunications services for South Pacific nations.

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17 December: A contract between OTC, Telecom New Zealand and the Tasman Cable Company was signed for the construction and laying of the Tasman 2 optical fibre cable.

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OTC was awarded a five-year contract by the European Space Agency for the installation, maintenance and operation of VHF launch support facilities at Carnarvon SES.

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9 March: New ISD (International Subscriber Dialling) service launched at a press conference at OTC's Broadway terminal, coming into commercial operation on 1 April.

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18 September: The Australian government expanded OTC's charter to give it interim ownership and management of Australia's national communications satellite system.

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31 November: Sydney Radio handled its first ever ship-to-ship telex connection between a vessel sailing in the Atlantic Ocean and one sailing in the Indian Ocean.

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15 November: Radioteletype and voice frequency circuit opened between Sydney and Honolulu as part of preparations for a communications system being developed for

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1 February: OTC ceased operating as a separate company when it merged with Telecom Australia to form the Australian and Overseas Telecommunications Corporation.

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3 April: OTC hosted an International Teleconferencing Symposium at OTC House. Participants took part in a satellite link-up with other Intelsat member-nations.

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30 June: OTC's rates book revised to include zoning of rates to certain countries, unification of rates and abolition of government rates to certain countries.

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Masterton, R and Prances M; Invisible Bridges, Australia and International Telecommunications; the Overseas Telecommunications Commission; Australia; 1986.

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14 November: Senator Gareth Evans received the inaugural telephone call during the official opening ceremony of the Cambodian earth station in Phnom Penh.

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February: The Australian Government established the Vernon Commission of Inquiry into the operation of Australia's postal and telecommunications services.

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29 October: Carnarvon SES officially opened and successfully tracked the first Intelsat II satellite as it passed over Australia during its transit orbit.

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September: The automatic transit telex exchange opened at OTC's Paddington terminal, replacing the old manual system which had been in place since 1958.

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November: The Australian Government announced the formation of a national body, Aussat, which would own and manage the new national satellite system.

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6 December: Melbourne facsimile section received the first-ever picture for publication from a ship at sea (the Royal yacht Gothic en route to Fiji).

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November: Time assignment speech interpolation equipment came into operation on the COMPAC cable, increasing the number of circuits from 80 to 100.

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February: Members of the International Maritime Consultative Organisation reached agreement on the need for a worldwide maritime satellite system.

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1 December: The assets and responsibilities for the operation of telecommunications services in Papua New Guinea were transferred from OTC to PNG.

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15 April: Sydney-London telegraph traffic transferred to Electra House, Sydney. All London-Sydney traffic handled without tape relay at Melbourne.

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Unpublished notes on the history of The Overseas Telecommunications Commission - sourced from general OTC history file in OTC Australia archives.

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28 October: Lodgement of international telegrams via the international telex network came into operation - known as the 'printergram service'.

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Alper, J Rand Pelton, J N; The Intelsat Global Satellite System; the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Inc; New York; 1984.

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20 December: The first maritime communications satellite - Marecs-A - launched from French Guiana. Carnarvon SES used as a TTC&M station.

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by Lawrence Durrant and Harry Young, Overseas Telecommunications Commission, 1977. Publication digitised by the State Library of Queensland.

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January: A new $ 6M computer system providing data processing services and detailed customer accounting was installed in OTC's Head Office.

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September: OTC International's proposal for a Pacific Area Cooperative Telecommunications Network was endorsed at the South Pacific forum.

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November: Telex World Letter service introduced, allowing telex users to send messages to correspondents who did not own a telex machine.

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Information sources: OTC annual reports (Australian state and national libraries, OTC Australia Archive, Telstra Archive), OTC magazine

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May: Australia's first daily international television service commenced. Legislation passed in Parliament advocating the formation of

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September: Marisat satellite communications terminals installed on the Australian vessels Robert Miller and the Australian Endeavour.

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30 August: PMG's Department extended picture-gram service to all Australian capital cities, transmitted via OTC's Melbourne office.

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6 February: The Gemini XII space capsule touring display arrived in Australia to be used for celebrating OTC's 25th anniversary.

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1 October: The second satellite earth station at Carnarvon became operational. Carnarvon SES 1 assumed full TT&C functions.

1014:. At this meeting, plans were drawn up for the construction of a new transpacific submarine telephone cable to be known as the 1604:

19 May: Capacity of Broadway exchange telephone circuits increased from 2,400 to 6,000 with the installation of new equipment.

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19 May: International Telegraph and Telephone Conference (CCITT) began in Paris to revise international telegraph agreements.

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6 March: OTC achieved the figure of 1 billion paid minutes of bothway international telephone traffic in one financial year.

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8 November: The ANZCAN cable was officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II speaking simultaneously to parties gathered at the

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8 January: The cable laying vessel, CS Pacific Guardian, built in England, sailed into Sydney Harbour on her maiden voyage.

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1 June: Cost of all telegraph rates from Australia (excluding urgent press and press messages to USA) reduced by one-third.

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June: The world's first optical fibre underwater telecommunications cable laid in Loch Fyne in Scotland to undergo trials.

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28 October: The Perth International Telecommunications Centre, and the AIS cable, were officially opened in Gnangara, WA.

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31 March: The Commonwealth Telecommunications Board was superseded by the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation.

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1 April: The first commercial use of Moree SES came on this day when news stations in Melbourne broadcast US President

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20 April: Commemorative cairn celebrating the landing of the Java-Darwin submarine telegraph cable unveiled in Darwin.

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29 March: Moree SES officially opened, followed by an international television linkup between Australia and Japan.

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November: Official opening ceremonies heralded the new international telex services to Japan, USA, UK and Canada.

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9 June: Transfer of coastal radio operations from Applecross to Bassendean. Applecross became remote controlled.

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3 November: JL Mulholland appointed General Manager of OTC. New OTC logo sourced from Radio Hobbies Magazine.

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28 September: The Pacific Cable Conference hosted by OTC in Sydney was officially opened by Prime Minister

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10 September: Australian Government announced it had finalised plans for a merger between OTC and Telecom.

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20 July: Pictures of the first man on the moon were telecast to the world via OTC facilities in Australia.

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1 January: M Hutchinson appointed acting managing director of OTC, following George Maltby's resignation.

1783:. OTC was the only foreign international telecommunications organisation to have a presence at the Games. 1405:

14 December: The new Ericsson gateway telephone exchange was brought into service at Paddington terminal.

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23 April: Paddington terminal extensions officially opened by OTC's Chief Commissioner, Bob Somervaille.

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October: Agreement reached between NASA and OTC for the provision of a Satellite Earth Station (SES) at

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9 July: Bringelly commenced monitoring Island Services. Transfer began of radiotelegraph channels from

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2 April: Doonside transmitting station closed and all services diverted to Fiskville and Pennant Hills.

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30 March: Queen Elizabeth II officially opened the Seacom cable. Simultaneous ceremonies were held at

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March: Commonwealth Telecommunications Conference began in London to discuss satellite communications.

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June: Radio-teletype direct printing service established for ship-to-shore messages via Sydney Radio.

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9 July: Prime Minister Robert Menzies officially opened the trans-Tasman section of the COMPAC cable.

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1 February: Inmarsat assumed control of its international maritime satellite communications network.

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in Western Australia, which would be used to provide additional capacity for the NASA space project.

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20 November: 100th-anniversary celebrations of the landing of the Java-Darwin cable held in Darwin.

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which would be linked with NASA's tracking station at Browns Flat and its control centre in the US.

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28 July: OTC opened its Bicentennial exhibition Settlement to Satellites - at Paddington terminal.

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January: The Coastal Radio Service was officially renamed the OTC Maritime Communications Service.

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and Bassendean stations began monitoring transmissions from the world's first man-made satellite,

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1 September: First Annual General Meeting held of the Sydney Office Staff Sports and Social Club.

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11 April: Arrangements completed for establishing a radiotelephone service between Australia and

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1 March: OTC's maritime radiotelephone service, Seaphone, launched from Melbourne Radio station.

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15 July: A direct radiotelephone service opened between Norfolk Island, Australia and beyond.

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launched the Request for Tenders for the Tasman 2 cable at an official function in Canberra.

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30 April: 50th anniversary of the inauguration of the Australia-UK direct telephone service.

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20 August: International Telecommunications Satellite organisation (Intelsat) was formed in

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2 June: Radiotelegraph and cable channels rearranged to cater for heavy traffic during the

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12 November: The shore end of the Tasman 2 optical fibre cable was landed at Bondi Beach.

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23 July: The Intelsat Vista Earth station, installed by OTC on the Cocos Islands, opened.

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14 March: The first commercial satellite link to Asia opened between Australia and Japan.

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31 March: Singapore-Hong Kong section of the Seacom cable officially opened in Hong Kong.

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20 February: The official opening of Ceduna SES was held at the Adelaide Hotel Adelaide.

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4 February: Australia's first satellite communications service opened via Carnarvon SES.

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April: The first Intelsat satellite, Early Bird, launched into orbit above the Atlantic.

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11 May: First International Telecommunication Union meeting since World War II began in

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November: The new $ 12M ISDN exchange at Paddington terminal commenced full operations.

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28 October the first Intelsat VI launched and placed in orbit over the Atlantic Ocean.

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28 June: Government officials in Europe and the US exchange greetings via Early Bird.

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25 September: First trans-Atlantic co-axial telephone cable, TAT-1 came into service.

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12 January: OTC launched its first colour television advertising campaign: Circles.

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27 September: New Perth International Telecommunications Centre officially opened.

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December: Land was acquired on which to build a new radio transmitting station at

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8 August: The new AXE 900 digital telephone exchange opened at Broadway terminal.

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30 April: Carnarvon SES's TTC&M satellite dish was officially decommissioned.

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5 October: Fully automated telex system introduced onto the Australia-US service.

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14 April: OTC headquarters in Sydney moved from Spring Street to new premises at

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27 April: Severe solar flare activity interrupted OTC's radiotelegraph services.

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28 June: The international videoconferencing studio was launched at OTC House.

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18 July: The Seacom cable was taken out of service. Guam cable station closed.

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2 May: Aerogram service commenced between Australian coast radio stations and

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31 May: The original beam wireless stations at Fiskville and Rockbank closed.

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20 February: George Maltby was appointed the first managing director of OTC.

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21 April: First meeting of the Pacific Cable Management Committee began in

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17 March: Direct radiotelephone service opened between Australia and Japan.

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1 October: Ships' Letter Telegram service opened to all classes of vessels.

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24 July: OTC's fifth satellite earth station, Ceduna 2, officially opened.

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27 July: The Vietnam Vista satellite earth station was officially opened.

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3 December: The Suva-Auckland link of the COMPAC cable officially opened.

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November: 5-unit code equipment installed at the Cottesloe cable station.

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December: The USA launched its first delayed repeater satellite: 'Score'.

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31 May: Shore end of the AIS cable landed at Whitford Beach, near Perth.

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17 August: Qantas leased a two-way radio teletype circuit to Singapore.

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November: Sydney's central telegraph operations moved to Spring Street.

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20 October: Electra House became the single operating centre in Sydney.

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7 August: OTC established by the Overseas Telecommunications Act, 1946.

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17 January: Harold White took up his duties as General Manager of OTC.

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31 December: The new telephone exchange at Paddington terminal opened.

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3 January: A radioteletype and voice frequency circuit opened between

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5 July: Worldwide unification of telegram categories became effective.

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15 June: Old Darwin Radio station closed. New station at Parap opened.

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to gain world standing on the international telecommunications stage.

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13 March: A new operating centre at La Perouse CRS officially opened.

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hit Darwin. OTC radio facilities suffered comparatively minor damage.

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25 January: The first Intelsat IV satellite placed over the Atlantic.

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to mark the commencement of work on OTC's new international terminal.

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Apri18: OTC's Skystream service was officially opened at Sydney SES.

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19 August: OTC launched its new Minerva data communications service.

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September: OTC's OverseasFax service came into commercial operation.

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12 December: The new trans-Atlantic telephone cable, Cantat, opened.

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March: Installation of new phototelegram equipment completed at the

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1 July: The new Melbourne International Gateway opened at Scoresby.

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July: OTC launched its Herogram service for athletes attending the

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8 December: The new Norfolk Island cable station officially opened.

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February: OTC became the first signatory to the Inmarsat agreement.

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12 November: Alan George Gibbs appointed Chief Commissioner of OTC.

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21 February: Broadway terminal officially opened by Prime Minister

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April: New transmitting and receiving stations opened at Lae Radio.

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25 January: First Wagga Weekend (OTC annual staff sports carnival).

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25 September: Shore end of the Tasman cable landed at Bondi Beach.

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September: Robert Somervaille appointed Chief Commissioner of OTC.

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1 May: Assets of Cable & Wireless purchased by the commission.

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November: A direct Australia-UK videoconferencing service opened.

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Canberra office officially opened: Kamal Ayoub appointed manager.

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26 March: Sydney-San Francisco circuits converted to 5-unit code.

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15 June: The new Adelaide business office was officially opened.

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October: OTC established its own Research and Development Board.

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11 January: Shore end of the ANZCAN cable landed at Bondi Beach.

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14 November: Historic No 1 transmitter at Fiskville closed down.

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28 February: Doonside transmitting station officially re-opened.

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1 February: OTC assumed full control of radio services from AWA.

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1 October: Arthur Petfield appointed Chief Commissioner of OTC.

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19 October: JES Stevens appointed first General Manager of OTC.

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1 February: OTC celebrated its 40th anniversary of operations.

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20 February: Tasman cable officially opened by Prime Minister

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23 August: SF Kellock appointed new Chief Commissioner of OTC.

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3 July: The new Melbourne Radio station officially opened at

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31 August: Direct Australia-New Zealand telex service opened.

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23 August: MRC Stradwick appointed Chief Commissioner of OTC.

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28 May: Trials of 5-unit teletype equipment conducted on the

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30 November: The Compac cable was officially decommissioned.

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31 January: USA successfully launched its first satellite -

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14 April: OTC opened a new training centre at Marrickville.

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August: OTC's successful television advertising campaign -

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16 January: Fanning Island cable station closed at 4.10 pm.

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23 August: AE Chadwick appointed Chief Commissioner of OTC.

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April: The new OTC Easifax service was launched in Sydney.

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29 September: Sydney Operating Room moved to Martin Place.

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July: The radio transmitting station at Applecross closed.

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19 April: Trevor Housley appointed General Manager of OTC.

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January: Alan Coates appointed Chief Commissioner of OTC.

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Satellite Earth Station officially opened near Melbourne.

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10 October: Bringelly HF radio station officially opened.

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6 March: OTC's highly successful advertising campaign -

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21 June: OTC's new office in Brisbane officially opened.

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May: New international radio station opened at Gnangara.

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April: OTC adopted a new logo, and new corporate style.

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8 August: OTC's central workshop facilities moved from

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14 December: OTC's first staff Christmas party held on

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1 July: Interim Management Agreement signed by OTC and

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July: Steve Burdon appointed managing director of OTC.

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3 December: The COMPAC cable was officially opened by

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29 March: Adelaide Radio station was transferred from

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12 July: Work commenced on a new station building for

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April: OTC's first Annual Report tabled in Parliament.

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1 April: OTC was incorporated and became OTC Limited.

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October: A new staff magazine, Contact, was launched.

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3 December: The new radio receiving centre opened at

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1 September: New shore-end laid for Pacific Cable at

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as part of preparations for NASA's Project Mercury.

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