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.

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

See also

Helen Cohn

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