Charles Todd Medal awarded to Paul Cross

One of the many casualties of the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic was the cancellation of TelSoc’s Charles Todd Oration in late 2020, a national industry event at which the annual Charles Todd Medal is traditionally awarded. The medal will be (physically) awarded as soon as possible in 2021. TelSoc has great pleasure in announcing that the 2020 Charles Todd Medal has been awarded to Paul Cross, the founding Managing Director of OptiComm Ltd, a pioneering builder and operator of wholesale passive optica

Reg Coutts Appointed Life Member of TelSoc

At its meeting on 5 November 2020 the Board of TelSoc awarded Life Membership of the Society to its immediate past President, Professor Reg Coutts.

Towards a Bipartisan National Broadband Strategy 2020-2030

The following news release was sent out to the press last night and will be of interest to members. Please note the links to the full report and statements from the Minister and Shadow Minister. NEWS RELEASE: TelSoc and the NBN Futures Group held a forum on Tuesday 24th November where Dr Jim Holmes, TelSoc Chairman and a member of the NBN Futures Group, presented: "Towards a National Broadband Strategy, 2020-2030"

TelSoc Provides Expert Testimony to the Joint Parliamentary Committee on the NBN

TelSoc was today summoned before the Joint Parliamentary Committee on the NBN to provide further input following the submission we made on 16th January to the JPC.

Please Pay for Membership

Dear TelSoc Member, This is a reminder to pay your membership for TelSoc for 2020/21, which was due on 1st July. For $120 pa (no GST), this represents good value for what is one of the oldest and most prestigious societies in Australia (founded 1874)

Reg Coutts Interview at 11am Today

TelSoc and Huawei jointly invite you to our webinar and launch of our joint discussion paper ‘The Gigabit Gap’ on Monday 29th June at 1100. With the volume rollout of the National Broadband Network being completed in the coming days, the end result has left some Australians with world-class Gigabit access but many more with much lower speeds and poorer quality of connection.

Membership Renewal Reminder

Some members have had problems getting newsletters recently. It took quite a while, but we finally identified it was a problem with Outlook using non-standard code. We apologise to those affected, but hopefully you can now read the newsletters, including the daily CommsWire.  Note they all appear on the front page of the website TelSoc.org; just scroll down.

The Gigabit Gap - Prof Reg Coutts, TelSoc - Online Seminar

TelSoc and Huawei jointly invite you to our webinar and launch of our joint discussion paper ‘The Gigabit Gap’ on Monday 29th June at 1100. With the volume rollout of the National Broadband Network being completed in the coming days there are crucial questions over what happens now with Australia’s largest ever infrastructure project.

Membership Renewal Time

Some of you may have difficulty reading HTLM emails from TelSoc - we are looking into this. For that reason, I am sending this reminder in plain text. TelSoc has decided after much deliberation and feedback that we must focus back on serving Financial Members. We will retain the category “Guest Members” for new people joining for three months, after which time they must become Financial Members or the account becomes inactive. Existing Guest Members will have until the end of September to de

Membership Renewal Time

Renewal Options TelSoc has decided after much deliberation and feedback that we must focus back on serving Financial Members. We will retain the category “Guest Members” for new people joining for three months, after which time they must become Financial Members or the account becomes inactive. Existing Guest Members will have until the end of September to decide. As well as the standard $120 membership fee, we have two attractive offers (available to all members). Take a look ....