Source: SMH - Malcolm Maiden
31st March, 2006

Morgan Stanley analyst Andrew Hines says Telstra still has all the problems he has written about before.

Source: SMH - Colin Kruger
31st March, 2006

A week's tension over Telstra's regulatory concerns ignited a share price spike yesterday as speculation swept the market that the Government would bow to Telstra's demands.

Source: The Australian - Michael Sainsbury and Steve Lewis
31st March, 2006

Finance Minister Nick Minchin has thrown his weight behind the Government selling its entire 51.8 per cent Telstra stake, including a widespread retail offer.

Source: ABC Online
31st March, 2006

A Newspoll survey shows the Federal Government could lose one in five supporters because of its new industrial relations (IR) laws.

Source: SMH
30th March, 2006

Commonwealth ombudsman Professor John McMillan will take on the new role of dealing with complaints about postal services.

Source: The Australian - Nicki Bourlioufas/AAP
30th March, 2006

Telstra would prefer the Federal Government to sell its entire majority shareholding in one, the telco's chief financial officer said today as its shares hit a fresh record low.

Source: INet-Bridge
30th March, 2006

Ongoing industrial action by thousands of employees at South African phone company Telkom (TKG) has received the support of the SA Congress of Trade Unions (Cosatu).

Source: ABC Online
30th March, 2006

The Federal Opposition Leader, Kim Beazley, says the Liberal Party has spat on its blue collar supporters by introducing the new industrial relations (IR) laws.

Source: The Age - Misha Schubert, Meaghan Shaw and Ben Doherty
30th March, 2006

Workplace Minister Kevin Andrews has conceded that the Howard Government will amend its contentious new industrial laws if they cause unexpected problems for workers and bosses.

Source: The Age
29th March, 2006

A Tasmanian cook says she was sacked on the day the federal government's new industrial relations regime came into force.

Source: The Age
29th March, 2006

Victorian unionists will march through central Melbourne today in opposition to the Federal Government's new industrial relations laws.

Source: SMH - Nick O'Malley Nick O'Malley Nick O'Malley
29th March, 2006

Unions enjoyed a surge in membership of 70,000 in the 12 months to August last year.

Source: SMH - Nick O'Malley Nick O'Malley Nick O'Malley
28th March, 2006

Hours after the Federal Government's new workplace laws took effect yesterday, unions said some employers had already used it to exploit workers.

Source: The Australian - Michael Sainsbury
28th March, 2006

Optus's seven million customers face major network service problems as the company withholds capital funding and slashes costs and staff because of flattening growth and shrinking profit margins.

Source: The Australian - Nicki Bourlioufas Nicki Bourlioufas
28th March, 2006

Telstra shares have fallen today to a record low level as questions about the full privatisation of the telco grow.

Source: The Australian - Ben Packham and Joe Hildebrand
28th March, 2006

Telstra has seized on the IR laws to ban union officials from worksites where workers are on individual contracts.

Source: The Age - Leon Gettler
27th March, 2006

Sections of the Federal Government's WorkChoices changes, which come into effect today, could prove to be unworkable and might have to be rewritten, practitioners are warning.

Source: The Australian - Michael Sainsbury
24th March, 2006

Sol Trujillo must be wishing that when Ted Pretty and his team of Telstra executives travelled to Microsoft's Seattle HQ in 2000, they had come back with a deal.

Source: The Australian - Michael Sainsbury
24th March, 2006

Hopes are rising that Telstra will build its planned $3 billion high-speed fibre-optic network, after the company agreed to peace talks with the competition regulator.

Source: ABC Online - Jean Kennedy
24th March, 2006

It was always clear that companies with fewer than 100 employees would be exempt from unfair dismissal laws, but it's now been revealed that larger companies will be able to dismiss workers.

Source: The Australian - Michael Sainsbury
23rd March, 2006

Telstra and Publishing & Broadcasting Ltd are exploring an alliance in the booming online search sector to fend off rivals Google, Yahoo and News Limited.

Source: The Australian - Steve Lewis
23rd March, 2006

Reputations will be heavily bruised if the Government abandons or delays the T3 sale process.

Source: The Age - Garry Barker
23rd March, 2006

Canberra has its head stuck in the sand on telecommunications and is rushing Australia headlong into the 1980s says Phil Burgess, principal lieutenant to Telstra's chief executive, Sol Trujillo.

Source: SMH - Angus Whitley and Netty Ismail
22nd March, 2006

Singapore's state-owned investment company, Temasek Holdings, has raised $2 billion ($1.7 billion) by selling shares in Optus owner Singapore Telecommunications.

Source: The Age - Meaghan Shaw
22nd March, 2006

Unions will look at using common law agreements with employers to guarantee workers' conditions that are banned by new workplace laws.

Source: SMH - Elizabeth Knight
22nd March, 2006

If the Telstra share price continues to fall at its current pace, investors who bought shares in T1 could soon be sitting on a capital loss.

Source: The Age - Stephen McMahon
22nd March, 2006

Telstra's share price yesterday dropped 4¢ to $3.66, an eight-year low, as investors fretted over regulatory changes and the prospect of dwindling dividends. Other telcos also recorded falls.

Source: SMH - Allan Hall
22nd March, 2006

Psychologists at Frankfurt University say that people, such as call centre staff, who smile a lot and say "have a nice day" are headed to an early grave while the grumpy stay fit.

Source: Australian IT
21st March, 2006

Telco Engin believes the internet phone calls market is experiencing a "ground swell" and competition from its bigger rivals will speed up the process.

Source: Australian IT - Michael Sainsbury
21st March, 2006

Serious power supply problems at Optus's vital internet and telephone exchange at Mascot could mean at least a year of internet and email outages for the company's eastern seaboard business and residential customers.

Source: SMH
21st March, 2006

With Telstra shares testing new lows yesterday, down 1c to $3.70, we should turn our thoughts to T3 and whether it still makes any sense.

Source: The Australian - Michael Sainsbury
21st March, 2006

Telstra has finalised a plan to spend up to $500 million on a major overhaul of its pay-TV fibre network.

Source: ABC Online
21st March, 2006

The Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) is gearing up for a renewed fight against Federal Government changes to workplace relations laws which take effect from next Monday.

Source: The Age - Nick O'Malley
20th March, 2006

Worn down by racist abuse from angry Western customers, Indian call centre workers are lobbying to have repeat offenders barred.

Source: The Australian - Michael Sainsbury
20th March, 2006

Telstra has held secret talks with Australia's competition regulator in a last-ditch effort to save its $3 billion metropolitan residential fibre network.

Source: ABC Online
20th March, 2006

The Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) says the detail of the Government's sweeping industrial relations changes shows how bad they will be for working people.

Source: The Age - Misha Schubert and Meaghan Shaw
20th March, 2006

Workplace Minister Kevin Andrews has handed himself sweeping powers to monitor every workplace in the nation.

Source: The Australian - Michael Sainsbury
17th March, 2006

Telstra has given its clearest indication yet that the 28c-a-year dividend propping up its share price is at risk.

Source: The Age - Meaghan Shaw
17th March, 2006

Optus will slash 450 jobs across the country in a bid to cut costs amid union fears that positions will be outsourced to India.

Source: SMH - Nick O'Malley
17th March, 2006

Optus staff were warned by email late yesterday that the company plans to shed 450 jobs, with losses mainly in its Sydney and Melbourne offices.

Source: The Australian - Michael Sainsbury
17th March, 2006

The pall of gloom over the $33 billion a year telecommunications sector deepened yesterday as Optus signalled a widespread program of cost-cutting and employee redundancies.

Source: SMH - Paul McGeough
14th March, 2006

The sale of almost 4 million mobile telephones is a stunning, if dangerous, success in the new Iraq.

Source: The Age/AAP
14th March, 2006

Telstra has defended erroneous details in its triple-0 database, saying many of the errors are not critical.

Source: The Sunday Age - Garry Barker
12th March, 2006

Anyone who thinks Sol Trujillo is in Australia for the short term might do well to read the University of California LA Regents' Lecture that he gave yesterday.

Source: The Sunday Age - Kenneth Davidson
12th March, 2006

Sol Trujillo doesn't pull his punches and he doesn't take a backward step.

Source: The Sunday Age - Phillip Hudson
12th March, 2006

Telstra is forcing staff to work on Labour Day (Monday in Victoria), despite the Federal Government's promise to protect public holidays under its workplace overhaul.

Source: The Age
10th March, 2006

Tasmania, the Northern Territory and the ACT will back the Labor states and unions in a constitutional challenge to the Federal Government's WorkChoices legislation.

Source: The Australian - Michael Sainsbury
9th March, 2006

OPTUS is in talks with loss-making network partner Vodafone which could see it buy the infrastructure.

Source: The Age - Garry Barker
9th March, 2006

Communications Minister Helen Coonan has threatened to use Government funds to support a semi-national broadband telecommunications network in competition with Telstra.

Source: The Age - Stephen Bartholomeusz
9th March, 2006

Telstra’s attempt to convince or coerce the Federal Government that the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission's pricing framework for access to its local loop is unfair is floundering.

Source: The Australian - Samantha Maiden and Michael Sainsbury
7th March, 2006

Telstra has been accused of misleading parliament over the rights of competitors to use government-funded mobile phone towers in the bush.

Source: The Age - Matt O'Sullivan
7th March, 2006

Commander Communications appears likely to succeed in its takeover of tech stock Volante after the former Telstra subsidiary raised its bid.

Source: Radio Canada - Peter Svensson
6th March, 2006

North America's biggest telco AT&T Inc. is to acquire smaller rival BellSouth Corp. for US$67 billion, in a deal that goes a long way toward resurrecting the old Ma Bell telephone system.

Source: The Age - Garry Barker
6th March, 2006

Telstra is to spend $67 million with Accenture on a five-year program to improve the skills of its field staff handling network engineering, maintenance and marketing.

Source: Telstra media release
6th March, 2006

Telstra has announced the first phase of its $200 million staff training program as previewed in Telstra's strategy day last year.

Source: SMH - Stephen Bartholomeusz
3rd March, 2006

Telstra's competitors believe Telstra is bluffing when it says it will not build its proposed fibre-to-the-node network unless the Federal Government provides "safe harbour" protection..

Source: SMH - Elisabeth Sexton
2nd March, 2006

Telstra's ill-fated media expansion plans included buying the Seven or Ten Networks and moving to full ownership of Foxtel.

Source: ABC Online
2nd March, 2006

Telstra has defended its decision to charge new home owners nearly 50 per cent more for new land line telephone connections.

Source: The Australian - James Riley and Michael Sainsbury
2nd March, 2006

Telcos should be allowed to form monopoly joint ventures in some areas of the network to speed the rollout of broadband fibre technologies, Labor says.

Source: The Age
2nd March, 2006

Telstra has called for major cuts to red tape in the wake of changes in technology.

Source: SMH - Richard Wray
1st March, 2006

Vodafone wiped £28 billion ($66 billion) off the value of its business yesterday - a record European write-down.

Source: The Age - Garry Barker
1st March, 2006

Optus has again accused Telstra of trying to block competition accusing Telstra of trying to squeeze resellers' margins to "take oxygen away from them".