Time to Renew Your TelSoc Membership

Dear [user:field-first-name], It is the time of year for renewal of your TelSoc Membership. We have kept this at $120 (no gst) for a number of years and you can usually claim this against personal tax. If you renew now, you can submit a claim with this year’s tax return. Please go to TelSoc.org, login, click “Renew” (top right)

5G and NBN Online Forum

TelSoc Members, We have an interesting forum online on Tuesday lunchtime on how NBN Co could benefit from integrating 5G into the broadband mix. 5G is often misunderstood as just the next generation of mobiles; it is far more. The 5G "core" will be the architecture for both mobile and fixed networks over the next few years. It is not only a threat to fixed networks, but also opens new opportunities.

TelSoc news - 19 May 2021

Dear TelSoc Members, The IET Retired Group in SA has organised an interesting lecture from sonnenBatterie and they have kindly included TelSoc Members free-of-charge. Here is the invitation from Don Grigg and a flyer on the event (including a link). I for one am interested for my home system, but obviously there is interest for cell sites, nodes and small exchanges. Tim Herring, Executive Director TelSoc ---------------------------------------------------

Henry Sutton Oration Thursday 20th May Lunch

Dear TelSoc Member, Each year TelSoc hosts the Henry Sutton Oration in Melbourne (we skipped 2020!) to commemorate the distinguished but scarcely known Victorian scientist, engineer and inventor from Ballarat. This year as Orator we have an experienced engineer explaining to us why the past is important to the future. David Piltz, Senior Engineer & Executive, Telstra “The Heritage of Telecommunications – A Sustainable Approach”

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.