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Originally only in the form of a print book delivered to all households for several decades, it now also exists online. [1] Originally named the Melbourne Telephone Exchange Company, White Pages Australia was founded in 1880 as Australia's first telephone exchange. It later became known as the Victorian Telephone Exchange Company and remained a ...
The Australian telephone numbering plan governs the allocation of telephone numbers in Australia. It has changed many times, the most recent major reorganisation by the Australian Communications and Media Authority taking place between 1994 and 1998.
The Western Australia Post Office Directory, also known as Wise Directories or Wise Street Directories, was published in Perth in 1893–1949.. It was published by H. Pierssené and later by H. Wise & Co. It listed household, business, society, and Government contacts in Perth, Fremantle, Kalgoorlie, Boulder and Coolgardie including some rural areas of Western Australia.
Thryv (formerly Sensis) is an Australian platforms and marketing services company that owns the Yellow Pages and White Pages, as well as a variety of other websites and publications in Australia. Prior to the sale of 70% of the Sensis business to American private equity firm Platinum Equity in March 2014, Sensis was Telstra's wholly owned ...
A telephone directory, commonly called a telephone book, telephone address book, phonebook, or the white and yellow pages, is a listing of telephone subscribers in a geographical area or subscribers to services provided by the organization that publishes the directory. Its purpose is to allow the telephone number of a subscriber identified by ...
By 1994, there were six area codes of two digits covering Sydney (02), Melbourne (03), Canberra (06), Brisbane (07), Adelaide (08) and Perth (09), 48 area codes of three digits, from (002) covering Hobart to (099) covering mid-west Western Australia, and one area code of four digits, Kangaroo Island (0848), which was not incorporated into a larger area code before 1994.
Usage note: In Australia, "suburbs" are the official postal subdivisions of a city.Inner suburbs are subdivisions within the denser urban areas of the cities and outer suburbs are the postal divisions found in the outer rings of the metropolitan areas, and usually lying within the boundaries of a separate municipality.
There are more than 350 [citation needed] suburbs in the Perth metropolitan region (colloquially known as Perth, the capital city of Western Australia) as of 2021. The name and boundary of a locality (commonly referred to as a suburb in the metropolitan region [according to whom?]) is determined under the authority of the Minister of Lands in Western Australia, and form an official component ...