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13-616: The 287-hectare (710-acre) site was originally home to a radio station which was used until 1986 by the Overseas Telecommunications Commission (OTC), one of two entities which later merged and formed the Telstra telecommunications company. After its establishment, equipment was transported from the OTC Earth Station Carnarvon and also from South Australia . In July 1984, an international meeting agreed on

26-721: A 14 MHz , 1,380- channel coaxial analogue undersea cable to be constructed between Jakarta , Singapore and Perth , spanning 4,473 kilometres (2,415 nmi) and connecting with cable systems in Malaysia, the Philippines, the Middle East and Eastern Europe. The OTC was to cover half the cost of the cable. The new cable was to replace the SEACOM 2 cable between Madang and Cairns , opened in 1966. The PITC commenced operations in November 1986 upon

39-408: A major player in international cooperative efforts, it played a vital role in the provision of Australia's international communications. Throughout rapid developments in undersea cable networks, global satellite systems and burgeoning digital technologies, OTC maintained a keen watch over its services to ensure continued quality. It also maintained and developed its links with maritime services, one of

52-596: Is unknown at this time whether PITC will eventually have to relocate as a medium-to-long-term result of the rezoning. Overseas Telecommunications Commission The Overseas Telecommunications Commission ( OTC ) was established by Australia in August 1946. It inherited facilities and resources from Amalgamated Wireless Australasia (AWA) and Cable & Wireless , and was charged with responsibility for all international telecommunications services into, through and out of Australia. In effect, all overseas telecommunications

65-467: The Australian and Overseas Telecommunications Corporation (AOTC). The new organisation underwent a corporate identity review and was subsequently renamed Telstra . When first established in 1946, OTC inherited facilities which had been depleted during World War II , and faced rising costs and falling profits. From this tenuous beginning, the organisation was to grow over the years to gain world standing on

78-562: The Japanese Defense Agency to position four information-gathering satellites to monitor North Korea 's developing ballistic missile system. Recent debate in the community and in State and Federal parliaments has focussed on residential development near the previously isolated site. The PITC had maintained for many years that there should be a 1 km buffer surrounding its land in which no residential development should occur, and from

91-526: The commission was part owner of overseas cables and international satellite facilities and it also operated international and coastal radio services in Australia and its territories. The OTC could well call itself and its services ‘ the World Shrinkers’ OTC's history shows how, by internal restructuring, upgrading its public image, making long-term investments in technologies and networks, and becoming

104-570: The completion of the new AIS cable at a cost of A$ 300 million, just months after the SEACOM 2 cable was damaged beyond economic repair by an undersea earthquake off the Papua New Guinea coast. The PITC included the first Pacific and Indian Ocean region Inmarsat earth station in the southern hemisphere, and the OTC claimed at the time that PITC was the world's only communications complex to have cable, satellite and high frequency radio links operating from

117-646: The international telecommunications stage. Throughout rapid developments in undersea cable networks, global satellite systems and burgeoning digital technologies, OTC maintained a keen watch over its services to ensure continued quality. It also maintained and developed its links with maritime services, one of the initial arms of Australia's international telecommunications network. When first established by an Act of Parliament in 1946, Australia's international telecommunications carrier – OTC – inherited facilities which had been depleted during World War II, and faced rising costs and falling profits. From this tenuous beginning,

130-451: The mid-1990s onwards, several members of parliament for the area tried to resolve this issue on behalf of neighbouring landowners. Some Landsdale residents in the already-developed section had also complained that the PITC facility interfered with their domestic appliances. Rezoning of the neighbouring area, known as East Landsdale Precinct 64, from rural to urban took place on 2 April 2006. It

143-415: The organisation was to grow over the years to gain world standing on the international telecommunications stage. The commission's role was the establishment, maintenance and operation of telecommunications services between Australia and other countries. Through the OTC communications, telegram, telephone, telex and photo-telegrams were relayed to other countries around the globe. To undertake these functions

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156-536: The same location. To this day, it handles a large percentage of Telstra 's satellite communications. A Telstra joint venture, Xantic BV, was established at the PITC. It has worked to provide ground stations for the European Space Agency and more recently with Japan's National Space Development Agency . This attracted some controversy when it emerged in February 2002 that a temporary ground station had assisted

169-556: Was nationalized. Australia was adopting a Commonwealth-wide policy that had been adopted at the Commonwealth conference in 1945. The main goal was to end the artificial routing of traffic to cable or wireless depending on private financial profits. On 1 February 1992 it was merged with Australia's domestic telecommunications carrier, the Australian Telecommunications Corporation ("Telecom Australia") to create

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