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News Archive - May 2009
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29th May, 2009 Telstra's attempt to appoint a person of its choice as the chairman of the "3GIS" mobile network it operates with Hutchison was yesterday rejected by the Victorian Supreme Court.
Source: zdnet.com.au/AAP
28th May, 2009 Sol Trujillo's allegation that he faced racism in Australia has been labelled "the greatest trans-Pacific dummy spit" by Telstra's main union.
Source: SMH
28th May, 2009 The union movement is expected to push the Rudd government on a number of key industrial issues - including pattern bargaining - at next week's ACTU national congress.
Source: The Age - Dan Oakes
28th May, 2009 Telstra is looking closely at the feasibility of folding some of its assets into the proposed $43 billion national broadband network.
Source: SMH - Michael West
27th May, 2009 Sol Trujillo's claims that Australia is a racist country sit oddly with the dog-whistle politics which Telstra played so hard.
Source: The Age - Farah Farouque
27th May, 2009 Sol Trujillo never showed fear of expressing opinions during his time in Australia.
Source: SMH - Peter Costello
27th May, 2009 There are plenty of reasons to be critical of Sol Trujillo's performance as chief executive of Telstra. Race is not one of them.
Source: ACTU
27th May, 2009 The announcement by Telstra that the company will restart negotiations with unions over a new collective agreement is a major win for Telstra staff.
Source: The Age - Dan Oakes
27th May, 2009 Telstra is considering selling parts of its phone system to the Federal Government's proposed national broadband network company.
Source: The Age
26th May, 2009 Sol Trujillo has taken a swipe at Australia, describing the nation he called home for four years as racist, backward and like "stepping back in time".
Source: The Australian
26th May, 2009 Former Telstra boss Sol Trujillo has told the BBC that being in Australia was like "stepping back in time".
Source: SMH - Kirsty Needham
26th May, 2009 Telstra has informed staff that it intends to re-enter negotiations with unions next month for a new enterprise agreement.
Source: zdnet.com.au - Renai LeMay
26th May, 2009 David Thodey yesterday wrote to Telstra employees and unions pledging to end the lengthy stand-off between management and staff by negotiating a new enterprise agreement in "good faith".
Source: Australian IT - Mitchell Bingemann
26th May, 2009 Telstra has invited employees to enter into "good-faith bargaining" for collective agreements after the telco raised the white flag following a six-month war waged by unions.
Source: The Australian - Matthew Franklin
25th May, 2009 Trade unions have demanded Kevin Rudd dump his plan to lift the pension eligibility age from 65 to 67.
Source: Australian IT - Geoff Elliott
25th May, 2009 Sol Trujillo's scorn for the $43 billion national broadband plan on the sidelines of a technology conference in the US prompted a rebuke from Australia's consul-general to New York, Phil Scanlan.
Source: zdnet.com.au - AAP and Liam Tung
22nd May, 2009 The Coalition has called on the Rudd Government to have the Productivity Commission examine Australia's broadband market.
Source: Australian IT - Mitchell Bingemann and Christian Kerr
22nd May, 2009 Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has brushed aside comments from Sol Trujillo which questioned whether the Government's $43 billion national broadband network would ever see the light of day.
Source: SMH - Dan Oakes
22nd May, 2009 The head of Australia's consumer watchdog has sparked a row with the Opposition by giving an endorsement of the Government's plans to build a new national broadband network.
Source: Australian IT - Mitchell Bingemann
21st May, 2009 Vodafone says strong revenue growth and new customer acquisitions have helped the mobile operator close out the 2008 financial year on a high.
Source: zdnet.com.au/AAP
21st May, 2009 Hutchison Telecommunications Australia yesterday said it had so far "weathered the storm" of the economic downturn, and remained confident its merger with Vodafone Australia would go ahead.
Source: SMH - Matt O'Sullivan
21st May, 2009 He's gone, but he's still a target. Sol Trujillo's homecoming appears to have been anything but warm.
Source: The Australian - Geoff Elliott
21st May, 2009 Sol Trujillo was in a typically combative mood yesterday, cynically suggesting the Government's $43 billion fibre-optic network plan was little more than a political stunt.
Source: Australian IT - Mitchell Bingemann
20th May, 2009 Telstra's new chief executive, David Thodey, has officially taken the reins of the company after the telco's controversial boss Sol Trujillo quietly returned to his US homeland.
Source: SMH - Elizabeth Knight
20th May, 2009 It's a fair guess that the early departure of Sol Trujillo from the top job at Telstra would have been a very mutual agreement.
Source: SMH
20th May, 2009 Former Telstra chief executive Sol Trujillo has returned home to the US more than a month before he was due to leave the telco giant.
Source: The Age - Jamie Freed
20th May, 2009 Sol Trujillo, the brash American telco executive who entered Australia with a bang in July 2005 to lead Telstra, has exited with a whimper.
Source: The Australian - Peter Gosnell
20th May, 2009 The corporate brawling of his reign was played out in public, but former Telstra boss Sol Trujillo has slipped away from the company and the country very quietly.
Source: Australian IT
19th May, 2009 Optus chief Paul O'Sullivan says he expects Telstra will try to delay the planned national broadband network to maintain its stranglehold on the industry.
Source: Australian IT - Mitchell Bingemann
19th May, 2009 Optus has added its voice to the chorus calling for the structural separation of Telstra, outlining four key regulatory changes it considers necessary.
Source: The Age - Dan Oakes
19th May, 2009 Two of the pivotal figures in persuading the Federal Government to build the national broadband network have said the network will not be rolled out unless Telstra is involved.
Source: The Age
18th May, 2009 Optus chief Paul O'Sullivan says he expects Telstra will try to delay the planned national broadband network to maintain its stranglehold on the industry.
Source: Australian IT - Mitchell Bingemann
17th May, 2009 Taxpayers have been left to front almost $703,000 worth of expenses racked up by the panel of experts who terminated the tender process for the original national broadband network.
Source: zdnet.com.au - Liam Tung
17th May, 2009 The Federal Opposition has revealed it will file a freedom of information request to attempt to retrieve the National Broadband Network expert panel and ACCC reports.
Source: ABC Online - Emma Alberici
15th May, 2009 One of the world's biggest communications companies, British Telecom (BT), will slash 10 per cent of its work force after reporting a full year loss of $270 million.
Source: Australian IT - Mitchell Bingemann
15th May, 2009 Telstra has lodged an appeal to overturn an ACCC ruling that denied the telco from increasing wholesale access pricing for competitors.
Source: The Age - Dan Oakes
15th May, 2009 Optus has adapted to the shift away from voice calls on mobile phones to report a 5.6 per cent rise in annual net profit.
Source: The Age - Dan Oakes
14th May, 2009 Incoming Telstra chief David Thodey has wasted no time in trying to rebuild burnt bridges, taking steps this week to rejoin Australia's big business lobby group.
Source: The Age
14th May, 2009 SingTel, the owner of Optus, reported quarterly profit fell a better-than-expected 17%, thanks to "resilient" Singapore and Australian operations.
Source: Australian IT - Mitchell Bingemann
14th May, 2009 A national broadband network born of a union between the federal Government and Telstra would be bad for competition unless regulatory reform accompanied it, according to industry observers.
Source: The Australian - Mitchell Bingemann
13th May, 2009 A national broadband network born of a union between the federal Government and Telstra would be bad for competition unless regulatory reform accompanied it, according to industry observers.
Source: The Age - Ben Doherty
13th May, 2009 The $43 billion national broadband network, announced by the Government last month, will not be subject to a cost-benefit analysis.
Source: Australian IT - Andrew Colley
13th May, 2009 NSW Premier Nathan Rees has announced the state's bid to win the role as headquarters for the federal Government's $43 billion national broadband network.
Source: ABC Online
12th May, 2009 Ziggy Switkowski says "no-one with any authority to make a difference" has approached him about a possible return to the Telstra's board.
Source: Australian IT - Mitchell Bingemann
12th May, 2009 A key architect of Sol Trujillo's $12 billion transformation program has resigned and will return home to the US.
Source: The Australian - John Durie
12th May, 2009 The Government will offer Telstra the chance to buy up to 49 per cent of its national broadband network, if it agrees to hive off its wholesale arm.
Source: Australian IT - Mitchell Bingemann
11th May, 2009 A changing of the guard at the top of Telstra has failed to win over a sceptical market.
Source: SMH - Dan Oakes
11th May, 2009 The naming of David Thodey as Telstra's next chief executive has many observers predicting a peaceful new dawn.
Source: SMH - Phillip Hudson
11th May, 2009 Catherine Livingstone has become one of the most powerful women in Australian business with her sudden promotion yesterday to be chairwoman of Telstra.
Source: Australian IT - Mitchell Bingemann and Siobhain Ryan
11th May, 2009 Telstra's new leadership team has won early endorsement from the federal Government, ending years of acrimony and rancour.
Source: ABC Online
11th May, 2009 The main union for Telstra workers says David Thodey will have to rebuild Telstra's reputation with employees.
Source: zdnet.com.au - Renai LeMay and Suzanne Tindal
8th May, 2009 Telstra is expected to appoint its enterprise and government chieftain David Thodey as its new chief executive as early as today.
Source: The Age - Dan Oakes
8th May, 2009 Telstra has turned its back on the tumultuous Sol Trujillo era, choosing a peacemaker as its new chief executive as it is forced to adapt to a new telecommunications landscape.
Source: The Age - Sol Trujillo
8th May, 2009 When I took over as chief executive of Telstra in 2005 we made some very tough decisions to create a much healthier Australian company that I like to call the New Telstra.
Source: Australian IT - Mitchell Bingemann
7th May, 2009 The Auditor-General will conduct a preliminary review of the Government's terminated national broadband network tender following concerns raised by the Opposition.
Source: zdnet.com.au - Liam Tung
6th May, 2009 Optus has won Australia and New Zealand Banking Group's five-year, $500 million managed telecommunications and network overhaul contract.
Source: WA Today - Michael Pascoe
6th May, 2009 On the day the Federal Government announced it was going into the broadband cable business I heard a radio interview with an Optus spokesman, memorable for the question not asked.
Source: Australian IT - Jennifer Foreshew
5th May, 2009 Technology work advertising fell 7.41 per cent, seasonally adjusted, in April, and recruiters warned the market was unlikely to improve in the short term.
Source: SMH - Adam Schwab
5th May, 2009 It was the $11 billion mega-deal that promised blue skies ahead but its failure by the slimmest of margins two years ago saved Qantas.
Source: The Age - Dan Oakes
5th May, 2009 Telstra's biggest shareholder has put further pressure on the company's board as it agonises over who should replace departing Sol Trujillo.
Source: ABC Online
5th May, 2009 Unions say hundreds of Telstra workers are about to lose their jobs as part of the company's ongoing redundancy program.
Source: zdnet.com.au - Suzanne Tindal
5th May, 2009 Telstra was in the Federal Court last week to fight having to pay an employee's two fees for making an emergency call on a public holiday.
Source: zdnet.com.au - Suzanne Tindal
4th May, 2009 Those companies wanting to be involved in the National Broadband Network implementation study will not be banned from also pitching for work in the construction process itself.
Source: Australian IT - Mitchell Bingemann
4th May, 2009 The Federal Court has found that Telstra misused information from wholesale customer, Optus.
Source: The Age - Dan Oakes
4th May, 2009 Telstra is fighting Hutchison for control of their shared mobile phone network as the smaller telecommunications business edges closer to a merger with Vodafone.
Source: Australian IT - Andrew Colley
1st May, 2009 Telstra today lost the first major round of its legal battle with wholesale premium SMS services customer Oxygen 8 in the NSW Federal Court.
Source: SMH - Elizabeth Knight
1st May, 2009 The Telstra board faces a real dilemma - its government is in tatters and there is no ready-made or easy solution. Its biggest shareholder, the Future Fund, has made known its dissatisfaction.
Source: The Age - Dan Oakes
1st May, 2009 Vodafone has extended its 3G network to regional centres throughout Australia, but it is unclear whether existing Hutchison customers will have access.
Source: zdnet.com.au - Renai LeMay
1st May, 2009 Details of the company established to bring the Federal Government's $43 billion broadband vision to life remained unavailable this week, despite government assurances it had been registered.
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