In yet another collaboration, the uxorious Telecom Australia has now teamed up with Fujitsu Ltd for joint production and sales of Fujitsu’s private automatic branch exchanges, beginning this month: a joint venture company, Information Switching Technology, will be formed with capital of $A2.2m, to be 60%-owned by Telecom Australia, 20% each by Fujitsu Australia Ltd and Fujitsu Ltd: a plant will be set up in the Melbourne suburbs in Dandenong, Victoria, to start manufacture of the modified FETEX 3000 and 2000 PABXs, with 50 staff; Fujitsu has been supplying Telecom Australia with telephones OEM since 1986.
