Radio Austria AG
The Radio-Austria AG was in Vienna -based telecommunications company with various areas of activity, such as telegram - telex and data transmission services . The company was founded in 1923 as a result of the wired communication links, which had become unusable due to the effects of the First World War , in order to be able to offer written communication services using radio technology as well as text and data transmission. In 2002 the company was incorporated into Telekom Austria and with it the end of independent operations.
Company history
After the license to operate radio was granted on September 18, 1922, the Austrian Marconi AG was founded in 1923. In the same year it was renamed Radio Austria AG. In 1924 the radio telegram service began broadcasting. When Austria was annexed in 1938, Radio Austria AG was subordinated to the German Reich Ministry of Post . At the end of the Second World War, radio communications were temporarily suspended. A new broadcasting license was applied for and in 1955 100% of the share capital was owned by the Republic of Austria . A year later, the company began operating public telex services to the United States over the air.
In 1962, Radio Austria AG received approval to carry out public telex traffic with non-European countries on radio and cable routes. In 1976 the computer-controlled telegram and telex switching systems TAURA and ELTEX went into operation. Two years later, the data transmission service RADAUSDATA was opened with the United States. As part of a working agreement with the Post and Telegraph Administration in 1981, Radio Austria was commissioned to carry out the telecommunications services. Two years later the Telepost / Bureaufax service was opened. In 1985, Radio Austria put the public e-mail service TELEBOX into operation.
From 1986 to 1989 Radio-Austria AG built its new administration building. After its opening, the EDIFACT services went into operation that same year . In 1990, electronic legal communications (ERV) and X.400 started operating . In 1991 RAMONA, RAFAX and TELEHOUSING and 1992 FREDI, TELEHOST and VSAT were also put into operation. In 1995 EDI-LOHN and EDI-USTZM followed.
In 1996, Radio Austria AG became Datakom Austria . A-Online and Corporate Networks were launched in the same year . In 1997 DDL and Datastream were put into operation. EDI-SOZIAL, Voice over IP , POS solutions (Datacash), FinanzOnline , EDI-Zoll and Unified Messaging started in 1998 .
In 1999 Datakom became a certification body for digital signatures (A-Sign). This was followed by the introduction of DaMe, the start of datashop and databiz, European Business Register , as well as the return traffic in ERV and the takeover of Net-at-Work Datenhandels und Kommunikation GmbH. In 2000, the international telegram service was discontinued. In the same year, electronic procurement was introduced as an operator model. Datakom then became a service provider and network integrator in the telecommunications group. In the following year Datakom set up its own ASP center and introduced b-secure . In addition, LIC + went into operation.
Datakom started electronic trading in 2002 . In addition, the international telex service was switched off. A short time later, Datakom was fully integrated into Telekom Austria , which ended the independent company history.
Technical development
Radiotelegraphy and shortwave radio
When the company was founded in 1923, old radio systems that were still built by the Imperial and Royal Army Administration were replaced by technology from the Marconi Company . These were fast telegraph receivers (Vienna Laaerberg) and long wave transmitters (Deutsch-Altenburg) in full duplex operation . The operation itself was carried out at the headquarters in Vienna, Renngasse 14. With the discovery of the advantageous shortwave , the transmitting and receiving systems were soon converted to these frequency ranges. In 1929, 20.7 million words were transmitted abroad using Morse radio and radio telegrams. Before the outbreak of the Second World War, 21 radio links were in operation, 3 of which were outside of Europe. After the facilities were rebuilt in 1946, Morse radio was gradually replaced by telex. Radio transmission systems with automatic error correction ( ARQ protocol ) were used as early as 1955 . This new technology allowed "Telex overseas" and the merger of the Austrian telex network with the telex exchange of Radio Austria AG. Radio Austria was one of the first operating companies in Europe to deal with the telex service overseas. Radio Austria had already taken a considerable position as a transit country in telegraph traffic, but within a short time it had succeeded in establishing this function for the telex service as well.
Deep sea cables and telecommunications satellites
From 1965, the cost-intensive overseas radio links were gradually replaced by leasing rights to deep-sea cables and telecommunications satellites.
Computerized switching systems
In 1976 the first computer-controlled automatic telegram system in Europe, called TAURA, was put into operation. Likewise, in 1976 the electromechanical telex exchange was replaced by a computer-controlled ELTEX system.
Data transmission and value-added services
As early as 1978, data transmission and database services to the USA in X.25 technology were offered under the title "Radausdata" . As a result, opportunities for public e-mail services such as TELEBOX, X.400 , electronic legal traffic ERV, database services TELEHOST and EDIFACT opened up at an early stage . Some of these services are currently offered and developed in Internet technology.
General Directors
- 1923–1951 F. Leist
- 1951-1970 H. Wenzel
- 1970-1980 J. Koiner
- 1980–1988 F. Zimmermann
- 1989-2001 K. Martinek
Locations
Operations centers in Vienna
From 1923 to 1989 the operations center of Radio-Austria AG was located in the immediate vicinity of the telegraph central station in the 1st district of Vienna at Börseplatz at the address Renngasse 14. In 1989 the company's headquarters were relocated to the 4th district of Vienna at Wiedner Hauptstrasse 73, where he was until their dissolution.
Transmitter station Deutsch-Altenburg
The transmitting station in Bad Deutsch-Altenburg was built during the First World War by the then Austro-Hungarian Post and Telegraph Administration in order to improve the telegraph traffic with foreign countries hindered by the First World War by establishing radio links. In 1945, before the end of the war, the buildings and antenna systems including a 150 m high LW antenna mast were blown up and only gradually rebuilt under difficult conditions. In 1965, 19 partly fully automatic transmitters with outputs of up to 30 kW were operated. As a result, deep-sea cables and telecommunications satellites displaced shortwave radio. In 1985 the facility was closed.
Reception station Laaerberg
In 1912, construction began on the central radio telegraph station on Laaer Berg on the southern city limits of Vienna. This system was supposed to connect the high command and ministries with the Austro-Hungarian army and naval units. After the war it became the property of the Austrian Telegraph Administration and - like the broadcasting station Deutsch-Altenburg - was brought in as the equivalent of a third of the shares in Radio Austria.
Radio Austria 2019
On the Austrian national holiday, October 26, 2019, the Fellner Group launched the second private Austria-wide radio broadcaster under the name Radio Austria. By and large, the frequencies were taken over by Antenne Salzburg, Antenne Tirol and Radio Ö24.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ From annual reports , company newspapers and commemorative publications of Radio Austria AG
- ↑ http://business.telekom.at/loesungen/ehealth/dame/da_me.php
- ↑ http://www.ots.at/presseaussendung/OTS_19991215_OTS0074/datakom-forciert-health-data-medizinischer-service-provider-net-at-work-in-wels-uebernommen
- ↑ http://members.a1.net/oaw1/wago10.htm
- ↑ http://www.dokufunk.org/broadcast/austria/index.php?CID=7128&ID=7042&PHPSESSID=0108cdca47e4129494d9ed52bfbb1fb1
- ↑ https://www.ots.at/presseaussendung/OTS_20191025_OTS0084/mit-radio-austria-startet-morgen-erstes-bundesweites-radio-seit-15-jahren
- ↑ http://www.radiowoche.de/fellners-radio-austria-startet-heute-oesterreichweit-auf-ukw/