Labels:text | newspaper | sky | outdoor | screenshot OCR: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY And in Poland, Telstra Telstra is helping Laos has just formed a joint ven- upgrade its Vista earth ture to install and operate a station to IDR with two-way radio network, a micro wave link paging network and a rural network will connect directly radio telephone system. to Asia and provide a sec- Even in the United States, ond path to North America Telstra's software techno- and Europe. logy is being used in the Every individual and country's first national on- company in Australia, and line telephone directory Di- intemational companies that rectory Net. use Australia as a commu- One mammoth undertak- nications hub, will benefit ing is the South Pacific Net- from this new network. Its work, which Telstra con- capacity will ensure lines ceived and launched to are available virtually all reflect its commitment to the time, and its digital na- the Asia-Pacific region. The network is one of the ture means that not only high-quality telephone longest and most advanced submarine optical- calls but also data, facsimile, image and video will fibre cable systems in the world. be able to travel on the network. The first two legs of the network, the Tasman 2 The South Pacific Networkwas conceived in the and PacRimEast cables, are now in operation, pro- late 1980s when Telstra's international business viding a direct digital highway linking Australia, unit, then known as OTC, saw that growth in Asia- New Zealand and the United States. When the Pacific, new business and the need for high-quality final leg, PacRimWest, is completed in 1994, the connections to the rest of the world would require
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