{"title":"Percy Rollo Brett OBE (1923–2022)","authors":"James K Richardson","doi":"10.18080/jtde.v10n3.628","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Percy Rollo Brett OBE (11 November 1923 to 8 August 2022) was a highly respected head of the PMG/APO (later Telecom Australia/Telstra) Research Laboratories between 1964 and 1975. He was promoted to Head of Planning for Telecom Australia in July 1975, and then State Manager, Victoria for that organization in 1980–1983. Rollo’s achievements as Director of the Research Laboratories included building links with Australian universities to strengthen the Laboratories’ expertise in longer term research, and masterminding the Laboratories’ move from six different sites in central Melbourne to a single site, in purpose-designed buildings in Clayton, opposite Monash University’s main campus. In the early 1970s, he used the expertise he gained as Chairman of the Telecommunications and Electronics Standards Committee of the Standards Association of Australia to lead the Australian Post Office’s conversion of all its standards to metric. Upon retirement in 1983 he was awarded the OBE.","PeriodicalId":37752,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Telecommunications and the Digital Economy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2022-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Australian Journal of Telecommunications and the Digital Economy","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.18080/jtde.v10n3.628","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"Social Sciences","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Percy Rollo Brett OBE (11 November 1923 to 8 August 2022) was a highly respected head of the PMG/APO (later Telecom Australia/Telstra) Research Laboratories between 1964 and 1975. He was promoted to Head of Planning for Telecom Australia in July 1975, and then State Manager, Victoria for that organization in 1980–1983. Rollo’s achievements as Director of the Research Laboratories included building links with Australian universities to strengthen the Laboratories’ expertise in longer term research, and masterminding the Laboratories’ move from six different sites in central Melbourne to a single site, in purpose-designed buildings in Clayton, opposite Monash University’s main campus. In the early 1970s, he used the expertise he gained as Chairman of the Telecommunications and Electronics Standards Committee of the Standards Association of Australia to lead the Australian Post Office’s conversion of all its standards to metric. Upon retirement in 1983 he was awarded the OBE.
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The Journal of Telecommunications and the Digital Economy (JTDE) is an international, open-access, high quality, peer reviewed journal, indexed by Scopus and Google Scholar, covering innovative research and practice in Telecommunications, Digital Economy and Applications. The mission of JTDE is to further through publication the objective of advancing learning, knowledge and research worldwide. The JTDE publishes peer reviewed papers that may take the following form: *Research Paper - a paper making an original contribution to engineering knowledge. *Special Interest Paper – a report on significant aspects of a major or notable project. *Review Paper for specialists – an overview of a relevant area intended for specialists in the field covered. *Review Paper for non-specialists – an overview of a relevant area suitable for a reader with an electrical/electronics background. *Public Policy Discussion - a paper that identifies or discusses public policy and includes investigation of legislation, regulation and what is happening around the world including best practice *Tutorial Paper – a paper that explains an important subject or clarifies the approach to an area of design or investigation. *Technical Note – a technical note or letter to the Editors that is not sufficiently developed or extensive in scope to constitute a full paper. *Industry Case Study - a paper that provides details of industry practices utilising a case study to provide an understanding of what is occurring and how the outcomes have been achieved. *Discussion – a contribution to discuss a published paper to which the original author''s response will be sought. Historical - a paper covering a historical topic related to telecommunications or the digital economy.
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