Oddfellows and Rebekahs – a modern tribute
One of Graeme’s major achievements was to lead the Telstra team that incorporated the first Australian internet services into the Telstra phone network. Initially Telstra was only providing telephone lines for emerging servers, but Graeme recognised the potential of the new technology.
It took Graeme four attempts to convince Telstra management of the opportunities the technology offered the company. They finally agreed he was onto something, and gave him the budget to plan the transition of Telstra the telephone network, into Telstra the international internet telecommunications provider. ‘I showed them my revenue figures,’ Graeme recalls. ‘And I said to them: ‘This thing is growing like stink!’ This is a telecommunications network that we need to be involved with!’
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