* Telstra and Optus in the Australian telecommunications market.

* Legion Interactive, an Australian telecommunications company

Telstra Corporation Limited ( known as Telstra ) is an Australian telecommunications and media company, building and operating telecommunications networks and marketing voice, mobile, internet access and pay television products and services.

On 1 February 1992 it was merged with Australia ’ s domestic telecommunications carrier, the Australian Telecommunications Corporation Limited (“ Telecom ”) to create the Australian and Overseas Telecommunications Corporation Limited ( AOTC ).

In 2007, he was featured in an advertising campaign for Australian telecommunications company Telstra's Next G network, appeared in the 50 Cent video " Follow My Lead " as a psychiatrist, and played the title character in the family film Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium.

An automated teller machine or automatic teller machine ( ATM ) ( American, Australian and Indian English ), also known as an automated banking machine ( ABM ) in Canadian English, and a Cashpoint, cash machine or sometimes a hole in the wall in British English, is a computerized telecommunications device that provides the clients of a financial institution with access to financial transactions in a public space without the need for a cashier, human clerk or bank teller.

Optus was initially allowed to enter the Australian telecommunications marketplace for national long distance and international telephone calls, with other players prevented from entering the general telephone market until 1997 and ' pro-competition ' mechanisms under the Trade Practices Act 1974-such as guaranteed access to Telecom's existing infrastructure on reasonable terms-meant to ensure its viability.

Australia's telecommunications market was formally opened to full competition in July 1997, with removal of restrictions on the number of licensed operators and anti-competition mechanisms ( replaced by general competition law under the oversight of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission ).

That number had climbed to 99 by May 2002 ( with 11 licences surrendered ); the Australian Communications Authority estimated that the benefits to consumers of telecommunications services from competition in 2000 / 1 were between $ 5. 5 billion and $ 12 billion.

* Telstra Research Laboratories, an Australian telecommunications research centre

It was reported on 31 May 2012 that the Australian telecommunications company Telstra and WIN Television Network CEO, Bruce Gordon, are considering making a takeover bid for Nine Entertainment.

Like many Australian cities, several major companies provide mobile telecommunications services and wireless internet services to Launceston.

Optus Television is the cable television division of Australian telecommunications company Optus.

This was possible through new interconnection agreements mandated by the Australian Government's deregulation of the telecommunications industry, and provided the foundation for iiNet's later move into telephony ( via its iiPhone ( Later Phone Advantage and Phone 1 ) and iiNetPhone ( Later iiNet VoIP ) products ).

In the lower level of the Tower's entrance foyer, there was formerly an exhibition " Making Connections " which traced the history of Australian telecommunications from the earliest days into the 21st century but this has since been removed.

One. Tel was a group of Australian based telecommunications companies, including principally the publicly listed One. Tel Limited ( ACN 068 193 153 ) established in 1995 soon after deregulation of the Australian telecommunications industry, most of which are currently under external administration by court appointed liquidators.

In 2009, Lara was made an honorary Member of the Order of Australia ( AM ) for services to West Indian and Australian cricket.

As with Japanese suburban railways or Germany's and Switzerland's S-Bahns, these Australian networks have far more frequent services and far higher ridership per capita than US ' commuter rail ' in the usual sense of the term.

Canadian and Australian nationals enjoy even greater cooperation between their respective consular services, as outlined in Canada-Australia Consular Services Sharing Agreement.

Like many large Australian cities, Hobart once operated passenger tram services, a trolleybus network consisting of six routes which operated until 1968.

The Australian Bureau of Meteorology ( 1906 ) was established by a Meteorology Act to unify existing state meteorological services.

In 2004 he was recognised as the Australian Humanist of the Year by the Council of Australian Humanist Societies, and in June 2012 was named a Companion of the Order of Australia for his services to philosophy and bioethics.

Responsibility for postal services was transferred to the Australian Postal Commission ( Australia Post ).

The Australian Telecommunications Commission ( ATC ), trading as Telecom Australia, ran domestic telecommunication services.

There was bad feeling between Grace and some of the 1878 Australians, especially their manager John Conway ; this came to a head on 20 June in a row over the services of Grace's friend Billy Midwinter, an Australian who had played for Gloucestershire in 1877.

The reporter directly raised the issue of the appropriateness of ASIS operations particularly with respect to priority setting in overseas postings and operations, cooperation with foreign intelligence services, and the privacy of Australian persons and organisations.

* to provide information security products and services to the Australian Government and its Defence Force.

* AMP Limited, Australian financial services company or one of its buildings:

The tertiary sector of the economy is also important for employment with major government administration offices for the Australian Securities and Investments Commission ( ASIC ), Centrelink and health services.

In that year it gained a carrier licence, offering long distance services to the residential market and building communications networks for the South Australian and Victorian governments.

Some countries also have personal radio services in the UHF band, such as the European PMR446 and the Australian UHF CB.

Taylor was awarded the Australian Sports Medal on 23 June 2000 for his services to Australian sport.

In the 1949 New Year's Honours List, he was made a Knight Bachelor for his services to the game, being the only Australian cricketer ever to be knighted.

Reflecting changes since the first Sydney Mardi Gras, participants in the Mardi Gras Parade now include groups of uniformed police officers from Australian Federal Police and New South Wales State Police, as well as interstate police officers, firefighters and other emergency services personnel from the Australian LGBTI community.

The Australian and I both were wearing insect repellent and were not badly bothered by insects, but my eyes watered as we stood watching the aborigine.

As they held the Ashes, Australian captains Bob Simpson and Bill Lawry were happy to adopt safety-first tactics and their strategy of sedate batting saw many draws.

However, by mid-1837 the South Australian Register was warning of escaped convicts from New South Wales, and tenders for a temporary gaol were sought.

Trade links with the rest of the Australian states were established with the Murray River being successfully navigated in 1853 by Francis Cadell, an Adelaide resident.

However, Twomey expresses confidence that, if the High Court of Australia were to be faced with the problems of covering clause 2, it would find some way to conclude that, with regard to Australia, the clause is subject solely to Australian law.

The European / Australian PAL ( Phase Alternation Line rate ) and the French-Former Soviet Union SECAM ( Séquentiel Couleur Avec Mémoire ) standard were developed later and attempt to cure certain defects of the NTSC system.

While scratch matches were played by Australian " diggers " in remote locations around the world, the game lost many of its great players to wartime service.

After the fall of Singapore, several thousand British and Australian prisoners of war were sent to camps in Borneo.

In 1978 An Australian Prayer Book was produced which sought to adhere to this principle, so that where the Liturgical Committee could not agree on a formulation, the words or expressions of the BCP were to be used.

For example, Australian left-wing " true believers " levelled it at supporters of the failed republic referendum of 1999 ( where the vote was split not along conventional party lines but very much along socio-economic divides, with the rich overwhelmingly supporting the change while the less well-off were opposed – a superficially bizarre pattern for a non-economic issue ).

Past Australian censuses were conducted in 1911, 1921, 1933, 1947, 1954, and 1961-2011 every five years.

The first single " Better Be Home Soon " peaked at number two on both Australian and New Zealand singles charts and reached top 50 In the US, though the following four singles were less successful.

It was proposed by the Beazley led Australian Labor Party opposition in a 2006 press release, with the intention of protecting children who were vulnerable due to claimed parental computer illiteracy.

During the combat operations from the atoll against Afghanistan ( 2001 – 2006 ) and Iraq ( 2003 – 2006 ), a number of allied militaries were based on the island including Australian, Japanese and the Republic of Korea.

The Australian Light Horse were similar to dragoon regiments in many regards, being mounted infantry which normally fought on foot, their horses ' purpose being transportation.

The Australian 4th Light Horse Brigade became famous for the Battle of Beersheba in 1917 where they charged on horseback using rifle bayonets, since neither sabres or lances were part of their equipment.

All of these were co-founded by Anna Donald, an Australian pioneer in the discipline.

In 2010, 183 million transactions, worth A $ 12 billion, were made using Australian EFTPOS terminals per month.

Then in the early 1980s there were major changes in the Australian brewing industry, including the merger of Castlemaine ( Brisbane ), Swan ( Perth ) and Toohey's ( Sydney ) into a national brewing group, as a result of acquisitions by Perth entrepreneur Alan Bond.

Some of the first examples were created ca 1981 by graffiti artist Blek le Rat in Paris ; by 1985 stencils had appeared in other cities including New York City, Sydney and Melbourne, where they were documented by American photographer Charles Gatewood and Australian photographer Rennie Ellis.

The Australian Gold Kangaroos were first coined in 1986 as the Australian Gold Nugget but changed the reverse design in 1989.

Sir William McKell ( 1947 – 53 ) was knighted during his term of office, but all the other governors-general until 1989 were already either peers or knights ; the only Australian peer was Lord Casey ( 1965 – 69 ).