TelSoc Online Event: Alex Orange, Omnispace LLC

Alex Orange, Vice President, Technology and Spectrum, Omnispace LLC Satellite direct-to-device connectivity: “To MSS D2D or to IMT D2D? Is that the question?” TelSoc has pleasure in announcing its next online event on Wednesday, 16 July 2025, from 12.30 p.m. 

TelSoc Online Event: Space Industry Association of Australia

Dan Lloyd, CEO, and Isobel Haddow, Head of Membership, Space Industry Association of Australia (SIAA) Australia’s Telecommunications Future:Optimising Terrestrial and Non-Terrestrial Capability to Ensure National Communications Resilience TelSoc has pleasure in announcing its next online event on Wednesday, 4 June 2025, from 12.30 p.m. 

TelSoc Online Event: Carol Bennett, CEO of ACCAN

TelSoc has pleasure in announcing its next online event on Wednesday, 21 May 2025, from 12.30 p.m. 

TelSoc Online Event: Luke Coleman: Election Preview

TelSoc has pleasure in announcing its next online event on Wednesday, 30 April, from 12.30 p.m.  With just weeks to go until the Federal election, Communications Alliance CEO Luke Coleman will present on the industry's top priorities for the next term of Parliament. 

Benefiting from Asia’s Technology Revolution

Introduction Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, and distinguished guests. It is a pleasure to be here today delivering the TelSoc Charles Todd Oration. Many eminent people have delivered this oration over the years, so I am honoured to have been asked to deliver this today. TelSoc plays such a valuable role in our local telecommunications industry in promoting the discussion around the development of the telecommunications industry here in Australia.

E-Learning and the National Broadband Network

A recent paper from February 2013 foreshadowing the dynamic changes in e-Learning from Australia’s roll-out of the National Broadband Network.

Institutions

This page provides links (where available) to the history of important institutions within the Australian telecommunications industry.

The Australian Mail Handling Scene

Two historic papers from 1966 detailing the mail handling scene in Australia and the development of the state-of-the-art Sydney Mail Exchange.

The Eucla Recorder (1898 –1900)

The rise of Eucla in the late nineteenth-century as a border telegraph station, located on Western Australia’s southern maritime border with South Australia, has been celebrated by Moyal (1984) for the cohesion and resilience of its skilled workforce. This article further explores the Eucla story, offering a vivid snapshot of the community’s preoccupations and challenges at the end of the 19th century through the pages of its monthly newspaper, the Eucla Recorder (1898 – 1900).

Historic Technical News Items

Two historic technical news items from 1970 covering the Australian Post Office’s involvement in the Apollo 13 emergency and a non-theoretical review of laser developments.