INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATION UNION
RADIOCOMMUNICATION ADVISORY GROUP

GENEVA, 23-25 JANUARY 1995 Document RAG95/3-E
9 December 1994
Original: English
                                 
                                 
                                 
                             Australia
                                 
                                 
             USE OF FACSIMILE OR OTHER MODERN MEANS OF
                 COMMUNICATION BY THE ITU-R SECTOR
                                
                                 

1    Introduction

     For many countries, including Australia, telegrams and telex
have become outmoded and ineffective as a means of communication,
and have mainly been replaced by facsimile.

     Email systems are now becoming commonplace but have yet to
achieve any standardization and acceptable reliability.

     Telegrams and telex messages suffer from low intelligibility
and high error rates.

     Telex also suffers from distribution problems within some
administrations because the receiving telex machine is no longer
attended by an experienced operator and other staff have difficulty
in deciding who an incoming telex is intended for. (For example, if
the word satellite appears in the text it should go to Office A, if
it refers to HF it should go to B, etc.)

     In the case of telegrams, in some countries they are delivered
through the mail by the PTT and may not be correctly addressed,
causing further delay or non-delivery.


2    Proposal

2.1  Administrations should be consulted by the Bureau and asked to
nominate the preferred means of delivery and precise address for
each type of communication currently sent by telex or telegram.

2.2  Specific references to delivery of notices, etc., by
telex/telegram in the Radio Regulations should allow for delivery
by other means to be nominated by an administration.


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