Australian Telephone Exchanges at the start of the 21st century
Telephone numbers/dialling codes
Wikipedia has good descriptions of the progression of Australian dial codes from the latter part of the 20th century:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Former_Australian_dialling_codes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_numbers_in_Australia
With the introduction of NBN and internet telephony, the role of the traditional telephone exchange will diminish and they will eventually disappear. The following information is provided as a historical record.
Another useful resource is located at this Telstra site. Look under "charging zones" and a document can be downloaded that lists Telstra exchanges and related call charging zones
https://www.telstra.com.au/customer-terms/home-family#home-phone
The following PDF file is from the above site. From it you can determine exchange number prefixes etc.
| fixed-zones.pdf |
The National Telephone Exchanges Dataset.
https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/74665
This Australian Government source lists all known Telstra telephone exchanges at 2012. it is the most accurate list I can find at this stage. Click on download file below for an extract of this data (in Excel format)
https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/74665
This Australian Government source lists all known Telstra telephone exchanges at 2012. it is the most accurate list I can find at this stage. Click on download file below for an extract of this data (in Excel format)
| australian_telephoneexchanges_2012.xls |
Another useful but less accurate source is:
Australian Exchange Guide v3.0
https://whirlpool.net.au/wiki/australian_exchange_guide
Australian Exchange Guide v3.0
https://whirlpool.net.au/wiki/australian_exchange_guide
