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30th April, 2009 Tens of thousands of Australian workers need a way to get off sub-standard WorkChoices agreements that have locked them into inferior pay and conditions for years to come.
Source: Australian IT - Fran Foo
30th April, 2009 Qantas has selected Fujitsu over Telstra for its multi-million-dollar contract to provide end-user computing services for five years.
Source: zdnet.com.au - Renai LeMay and Suzanne Tindal
29th April, 2009 The Federal Government has established the state-owned company that will build and administer the National Broadband Network.
Source: The Age - Dan Oakes
29th April, 2009 Telstra's annus horribilis has continued, with the consumer watchdog knocking back Telstra's application to double the price competitors pay to access the copper network
Source: Australian IT - Jennifer Foreshew
28th April, 2009 The country's largest technology recruiter, Peoplebank Australia, is planning to import 150 to 200 overseas technology workers a year.
Source: SMH - Michael Evans
28th April, 2009 Michael Evans will miss our Sol no end when he takes off for good.
Source: Australian IT - Michael Sainsbury
27th April, 2009 Telstra may be forced into large writedowns and the reduction of financial targets in coming months as widespread problems with Sol Trujillo's $12 billion transformation project come to light.
Source: ABC Online
27th April, 2009 About 200 Telstra workers have walked off the job in Darwin today to coincide with a visit by the company's chief executive, Sol Trujillo.
Source: Australian IT - Mitchell Bingemann
24th April, 2009 The federal Government is calling on broadband-depleted rural communities to nominate themselves for a first slice of the $43 billion national broadband network.
Source: The Age - John Sutton
24th April, 2009 During the boom years one of the revered instruments has been the public-private partnership. But with much having changed in the financial world it's become obvious that the PPP is no longer the salvation for governments.
Source: The Age - Matt O'Sullivan and Danny John
24th April, 2009 Pressure is mounting on Peter Willcox to step down from Telstra's embattled board after Meredith Hellicar quit as an AMP director over the James Hardie asbestos affair.
Source: The Land - Graham Fuller
24th April, 2009 The Mayor of Barcoo Shire in western Queensland believes the Federal Government’s National Broadband Network initiative has the potential to revitalise the bush.
Source: zdnet.com.au - Suzanne Tindal
24th April, 2009 Construction on the $250 million regional backhaul part of the Federal Government's National Broadband Network plan could start by September this year.
Source: SMH - Dan Oakes
23rd April, 2009 Investors and analysts have played down the significance of a $500 million investment in Telstra that Kerry Stokes's Seven Network has reportedly made over the past 18 months.
Source: The Age - Dan Oakes and Miriam Steffens
23rd April, 2009 Telstra and Commonwealth Bank have signed a customer service deal worth up to $1 billion. Improvements will include increasing the capacity of the bank's websites and phone systems.
Source: zdnet.com.au - Suzanne Tindal
23rd April, 2009 Telstra's long-running strike has resulted in the phones in one of mining company Xstrata's offices going down for two days, the telco's main union claimed this week.
Source: Australian IT - Mitchell Bingemann
22nd April, 2009 The customer and billing software platform at the heart of Telstra's IT transformation is so inefficient the telco is looking at virtualisation as a fix.
Source: Australian IT - Mitchell Bingemann
22nd April, 2009 AAPT has completed a $30 million upgrade of its core internet protocol and edge network. The telco says the upgrade will allow it to provide its business customers with speeds up to 10Gbps.
Source: The Age - Dan Oakes
22nd April, 2009 Telecom New Zealand will hold on to its stake in Hutchison after the latter merges with rival mobile phone company Vodafone.
Source: Australian IT - Mitchell Bingemann
22nd April, 2009 Telstra's main union is lobbying the federal Government to make amendments to the Privacy Act in a bid to ensure local jobs are kept in Australia as the telco prepares to close the door on 366 regional call centre jobs.
Source: The Age - Dan Oakes
21st April, 2009 Sol Trujillo will spend his final week at the helm of the troubled telco in London, spruiking the benefits of investing in Australia.
Source: SMH - Scott Rochfort
20th April, 2009 A battle is brewing between Australia Post's top brass and its army of 35,000 postal workers.
Source: The Age - Dan Oakes
20th April, 2009 Telstra's biggest shareholder has broken its silence to express concern about the erosion of its multibillion-dollar stake.
Source: The Age - Dan Oakes
20th April, 2009 Telstra has become the first major Australian company to set guidelines on employee use of Facebook, Twitter and similar websites.
Source: ABC Online
17th April, 2009 Telstra and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) have collaborated to produce a white paper addressing sustainability in the communications sector.
Source: Australian IT - Mitchell Bingemann
17th April, 2009 There's no doubting that, come June 30, Telstra will have a new chief executive, but the fate of the telco's chairman Donald McGauchie is not as certain.
Source: zdnet.com.au - Suzanne Tindal
16th April, 2009 Tasmanian carrier Aurora today confirmed it was planning to initiate a tender process to find vendors for goods and services associated with the roll-out of the $43 billion National Broadband Network in the state.
Source: The Land - Lucy Skuthorp
16th April, 2009 Country areas must be the first to have the Federal Government’s proposed “fibre to the home” broadband technology installed if the votes of key rural MPs are to be secured.
Source: The Australian - JJ Sassine
16th April, 2009 All phone calls will be made over the internet instead of traditional fixed lines when the national broadband network is finished, says a leading industry figure.
Source: Herald Sun - Ben Butler and Fleur Leyden
16th April, 2009 The communications union says 2000 jobs may be lost from Telstra before the end of June as the company steps up redundancies ahead of chief executive Sol Trujillo's departure.
Source: Australian IT - Clive Mathieson
15th April, 2009 Standard & Poor's has cut Telstra's long-term debt outlook to negative, warning that the Government's new broadband plans have created significant uncertainty about the company's "future structure and composition".
Source: The Land - James Massola
15th April, 2009 The Federal Government's $43billion national broadband network could hinge on work starting first in the bush, key cross-bench senators say.
Source: Australian IT - Rick Wallace and Nicola Berkovic
15th April, 2009 A three-way squabble over Kevin Rudd's broadband bonanza has erupted, with the Victorian and NSW governments yesterday countering Queensland Premier Anna Bligh's pitch.
Source: SMH - Phillip Coorey
15th April, 2009 Consumers would pay about the same for the Government's proposed new super-fast broadband service as they do now for a much inferior product, says Minister.
Source: The Australian - Michael Sainsbury and Jennifer Hewett
14th April, 2009 Telstra will consider a voluntary separation of its wholesale and retail arms as well as the sale of some assets to the proposed $43 billion broadband network.
Source: SMH - Eric Johnston
14th April, 2009 The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority is believed to have recently stepped up monitoring of corporate superannuation plans operated by a raft of listed companies, including BHP Billion, Telstra and Qantas.
Source: The Age - Dan Harrison
14th April, 2009 Telstra has formed a high-powered taskforce to manage negotiations with the Government over the planned $43 billion national broadband network.
Source: Australian IT - Fran Foo
14th April, 2009 Telstra has charged ahead with proposed layoffs, with about 100 technicians set to lose their jobs in coming weeks.
Source: SMH - Matt O'Sullivan
13th April, 2009 Telstra faces having to ditch a much-touted $300 million upgrade of its cable network.
Source: The Australian - George Megalogenis
11th April, 2009 The recession has helped to make history with the number of working women in full-time and part-time jobs surpassing the number of men in full-time jobs for the first time on record.
Source: Australian IT - Mitchell Bingemann
11th April, 2009 The chances of an internal candidate being appointed to head Telstra received a boost after the Government invited the telco to be a participant in its new $43billion network, analysts say.
Source: SMH - Dan Oakes
11th April, 2009 After the broadband debacle, we could see a kinder, gentler Telstra.
Source: ABC Online - Lyndal Curtis
10th April, 2009 Optus is considering offering the Federal Government its fibre-optic network in return for a stake in the new national broadband company.
Source: Australian IT - Mahesh Sharma and Mitchell Bingemann
10th April, 2009 The first sign of the Government's $43 billion national broadband network appearing is likely to be another wire placed in the tangle of cables carried by suburban telegraph poles.
Source: SMH - Phillip Hudson
10th April, 2009 The national broadband network is touted by the Government as the key to the universe, but there are doubters.
Source: SMH - Phillip Hudson
10th April, 2009 The Rudd Government will next month try to lock Parliament into approving the sale of its new broadband company by 2022 in a bid to avoid a repeat of the bitter Senate debates over the privatisation of Telstra.
Source: zdnet.com.au - Suzanne Tindal
10th April, 2009 A Telstra management presentation seen by ZDNet.com.au showed this week that Telstra has been feeling the effects of industrial action, despite the telco denying the union moves were having any effect on customers.
Source: ACTU
9th April, 2009 The decision to create a new Government-owned company to build and operate the National Broadband Network is a great outcome for telco workers, say unions.
Source: ABC Online
9th April, 2009 Barnaby Joyce says his party should look to amend the Government's $43 billion broadband plan, rather than vote against it.
Source: The Age - Elizabeth Knight
9th April, 2009 The new broadband plan has left the telco punch drunk. Donald McGauchie must have woken yesterday wondering if the previous day's events were just a bad dream.
Source: The Age - Kenneth Davidson
9th April, 2009 National broadband can be rolled out more cheaply using the existing network.
Source: The Age - Michelle Grattan and Dan Harrison
9th April, 2009 Donald McGauchie has met a senior adviser to Kevin Rudd to discuss the implications of the Government's sweeping proposal to build a $43 billion high-speed broadband network.
Source: ABC Online
8th April, 2009 Key points about the Government's ambitious new national broadband plan.
Source: The Land
8th April, 2009 The Federal Government's proposed $43 billion construction of a national broadband network has raised as many questions as it was hoped to answer for rural groups.
Source: SMH - Ian Verrender
8th April, 2009 Sol Trujillo has just a few weeks left to run on his hugely lucrative contract.
Source: The Age - Dan Oakes
8th April, 2009 Telstra's competitors reacted joyously to the news that the Government will control the proposed new national broadband network.
Source: The Age - Dan Oakes and Matt O'Sullivan
8th April, 2009 Telstra could be forced to sell off its high-speed cable network and its stake in Foxtel under a regulatory regime set to be introduced as the new national broadband network is built.
Source: The Age - Dan Oakes
7th April, 2009 Analysts say the proposed national broadband network could be rendered financially unviable and obsolete before it is built.
Source: The Age
7th April, 2009 Industry speculation in recent weeks has pointed to Acacia, a syndicate of Australian businessmen, as favourite for the broadband contract.
Source: Australian IT - Mitchell Bingemann
7th April, 2009 Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Communications Minister Stephen Conroy are expected to announce the winner of the $15 billion National Broadband Network project today.
Source: Courier Mail - Ben Butler
7th April, 2009 Customer complaints about Telstra's phone service rocketed by a massive 52 per cent in just 90 days, company statistics have revealed.
Source: zdnet.com.au - Renai LeMay
7th April, 2009 The Government has terminated the National Broadband Network process with no winner, instead flagging plans to invest billions in building its own fibre-to-the-home network to 90 per cent of Australians.
Source: ABC Online
7th April, 2009 A union representing Telstra technicians says the telco is slashing more than 90 jobs across New South Wales and the ACT.
Source: The Age - Peter Wilson
6th April, 2009 With much political fanfare, the Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, recently announced a pay double-whammy.
Source: The Age - Katharine Murphy
6th April, 2009 A $10 billion-plus tender to build a new national broadband network will finally be unveiled this week.
Source: Daily Telegraph - John Rolfe
3rd April, 2009 Optus will reap up to $100 million a year by charging customers for paper bills which had until now been free.
Source: The Age - Dan Oakes
3rd April, 2009 Telstra and Hutchison have squared up in the courts over the junior telco's proposed merger with fellow middleweight Vodafone.
Source: The Australian - Ben Grubb
3rd April, 2009 If you believe the advertising jingles, mobile phone coverage is “everywhere man”.
Source: ABC Online
2nd April, 2009 The competition regulator has raised concerns about Vodafone's proposed merger with Hutchison Telecommunications.
Source: ABC Online
2nd April, 2009 The man behind a legal challenge to the Federal Government's $900 economic stimulus bonus believes the payment will be made irrespective of the High Court's decision.
Source: SMH - Dan Oakes
1st April, 2009 Telstra has made 70 people redundant at its Sydney Trading Post call centre, citing the move away from print to online advertising.
Source: The Australian - Rachel Pannet
1st April, 2009 Sol Trujillo says analysts have overplayed the likely earnings impact on Telstra of it being excluded from the tender to build a national high-speed internet network.
Source: The Australian - Cameron Stewart
1st April, 2009 Optus has accused Telstra of fanning xenophobia by raising the threat posed by Chinese espionage in the new national broadband network.
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