SEACOM (Asian cable system)

SEACOM is a telephone submarine cable linking Hong Kong with Malaysia.

Its telephone link was opened in 1967.[1]

At one stage it also included the terrestrial radio microwave analogue link along the eastern coast of Australia, operated by the Postmaster-General's Department which was the forerunner of Telstra. This communication link rejoined the undersea cable section at Cairns in north Queensland.[2] [3]

Notes
  1. 1967: 30 March The South East Asia Commonwealth Cable (SEACOM) officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II. - in http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/80208/20080111-1146/www.cairns.qld.gov.au/heritage/History/Timeline4.html
  2. Overseas Telecommunications Commission (Australia) (1966). In Seacom : the South East Asia Commonwealth Cable. Overseas Telecommunications Commission (Australia), Sydney
  3. 1967: 30 March The South East Asia Commonwealth Cable (SEACOM) officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II. - in http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/80208/20080111-1146/www.cairns.qld.gov.au/heritage/History/Timeline4.html

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