This Agency provides telecommunications sales and services to customers located in the South Australian and Northern Teritory country areas in accordance with Acts of Parliament.  The functions have now been taken over by Telecom Australia, Corporate Customer Division (CA 7143) and Consumer Division (CA 7145) from October 1992.
 
On 1 July 1988 the Australian Telecommunications Commission, State Office, South Australia divided into a number of Business Units.  These Business Units reflect the various tasks performed by Telecom Australia and enable each unit to be accountable for its operations.
 
Country Division is divided into four regions:
 
 1. Regional Head Office.
 
 2. Northern Office.
 
 3. Southern Office.
 
 4. Northern Territory Office.
 
1. Regional Head Office consists of the following areas:
 
 Admin/Exec
 Decision Support Systems
 Finance and Control
 Human Resources
 Sales and Marketing
 Network Support
 
2. Northern Office consists of the following areas:
 
 Customer Services
 Exec Aide
 Internal Plant
 External Plant
 
3. Southern Office consists of the following areas:
 
 Customer Services
 Exec Aide
 Internal Plant
 External Plant
 Regional Operations
 
4. Northern Territory Office consists of the following areas:  
 
 Customer Services
 Internal Plant
 External Plant
 Exec Aide
 
The Country Division is one of five Customer Divisions that are responsible to the Corporate Centre.
 
This division was closed in October 1992 and its functions transferred to the Corporate Consumer Division (CA 3143) and Consumer Division (CA 3145).
Historical agency address
176 Grenfell Street, Adelaide
Legislation administered
Telecom Acts and Regulations.