Celebrating 20 years of telecoms competition

Stuart Corner
Thursday, 22 May 2008 06:53

Opinion and Analysis

Its general manager, Martin Turner, said Telecom Plus aimed to be a $50 million a year operation by 1992-93, predicted growth rates of 50 percent per annum and profits in the 1991-92 financial year.

In the ensuing years Telecom Plus, personified through Turner, became the 'bete noire' of the industry with frequent complaints that Telecom was abusing its monopoly control of underlying reserved services and its market power to try and stifle the emerging value-added services industry.  Sounds familiar?

If you would like to read more...A couple of years ago I was commissioned, by an organisation which shall remain nameless, to write a short history of Australian telecommunications. It runs from 1975, when Telecom was hived off from the Postmaster General's Department, and goes up to 1991 at which point the project was cancelled. If you would like a copy - drop me an email at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it