TwentyToTheMile

The Overland Telegraph Line was a major technological advancement of its day. Telegraphy had been around for a while in Europe and America, and it was slowly spreading across Australia’s eastern states.

But no where did it have such an extraordinary and immediate effect on communication as it did across the vast dry interior of the world’s largest island continent. These days we are fond of calling the OTL the ‘internet of its day’, but its real synergy today lies in companies that provide all types of modern satellite communication to the remotest corners of the country with ease. 

Australia's Pivotel, for instance, provides communication options for people in rural and remote areas that, as my mother used to say, would make Sir Charles Todd turn in his grave. Todd was a pioneer in the technology, but he could never have imagined being able to download live data onto a handset, or chatting to his family while in his camp beside Central Mount Stuart. Pivotel allows us to travel, work and play safely in regions with help just a dial away. They provide a new standard.