Corporate Body
Cable and Wireless (C&W)
- From
- Australia
- Functions
- Telecommunications
- Website
- http://www.cw.com/
Summary
Cable & Wireless was one of Australia's first telecommunications companies. "In 1947 the Overseas Telecommunications Commission (Australia) was formed to take over from Cable & Wireless. From the 1960s to the 1980s, Cable & Wireless' involvement with Australia focused on major international coaxial cable projects such as COMPAC, SEACOM and ANZCAN. In the 1990's, the formation of Optus established a second telecommunications network and by 1994 its network comprised of over 5,000 kms of fibre optic cable." Taken from http://www.cwhistory.com/history/html/AustralTwo.html March 2006.
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Published resources
Books
- Barty-King, Hugh, Girdle round the earth: the story of Cable and Wireless and its predecessors to mark the group's jubilee, 1929 - 1979 (London: Heinemann, 1979), 413 pp. Details
Resources
- Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1309945. Details
See also
- Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Technology in Australia 1788-1988, Online edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, 3 May 2000, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/tia/index_c.html. Details
- Glencross-Grant, Rex; and Moore, John C., 'The all-red line: the pacific cable and its significant role in international communications, 1902 - 2022', in Australasian Engineering Heritage Conference: AEHC 2022 (Barton, ACT: Engineers Australia, 2023), pp. 1-15., https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.836558842550062. Details
Helen Cohn
Created: 1 December 2000, Last modified: 18 April 2023
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