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Mobile phones. Within Australia, mobile phone numbers begin with 04 or 05 – the Australian national trunk code 0, plus the mobile indicator 4 or 5 – followed by eight digits. This is generally written as 04XX XXX XXX within Australia, or as +61 4XX XXX XXX for an international audience.
White Pages Australia. White Pages Australia is a formerly government-owned and now-privatised directory of contact information for people and business entities within Australia. Originally only in the form of a print book delivered to all households for several decades, it now also exists online. [1]
It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Singaporean telecommunications company Singtel. Optus is the second-largest telecommunications company in Australia, with over 11 million customers as of 2023. [2] Its mobile network covers 98.5% of the Australian population, with plans to cover 100% of Australia by 2025 through its partnership with SpaceX.
The Postmaster-General's Department was created in 1901 to take over all postal and telegraphy services in Australia from the states and administer them on a national basis. The department was administered by the postmaster-general. The first permanent secretary of the department was Sir Robert Townley Scott, who held office from 1 July 1901 ...
An old bakelite ash tray showing an example of a single digit phone number used in the early days of telecommunication. On 12 July 1906 the first Australian wireless overseas messages were sent between Point Lonsdale, Victoria and Devonport, Tasmania. [3] Australia and New Zealand ratified the 1906 Berlin Radio-telegraph Convention in 1907.
Australia's first telegraph line, sponsored by the Victorian Government, was erected between Melbourne and Williamstown in 1853 and 1854 by Samuel McGowan, a recently immigrated Canadian telegrapher. The line covered a distance of 17 kilometres (11 mi) and went into operation in March 1854, less than 10 years after the opening of the first ...
ABC Television is the general name for the national television services of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). Until an organisational restructure in 2017/2018, ABC Television was also the name of a division of the ABC. The name was also used to refer to the first and for many years the only national ABC channel, before it was ...
000 Emergency, [1] also known as Triple Zero[1] or Triple 0, [2] and sometimes stylised Triple Zero (000), [1] is the primary national emergency telephone number in Australia [1] and Australian External Territories. The Emergency Call Service is operated by Telstra, and overseen by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA), [3 ...