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Telstra remake runs into stormy weather
Michael Sainsbury ON time and on budget was the one hoary old phrase missing from Telstra's typically upbeat full-year profit briefing last week.
Another grim week for telecoms
Michael Sainsbury THE past few weeks have been ugly for Australia's telecoms sector, although much of it has been a strategic triumph for Telstra chief Sol Trujillo - which should be a stark warning to Communications Minister Stephen Conroy that he needs to swallow his pride and firm up his policies.
Rough ride to continue for O'Sullivan
Michael Sainsbury PAUL O'Sullivan will have been, at the end of this month, in the top job at Optus for four years.
Rough night on the way for telcos, techies
Michael Sainsbury AS Bette Davis's character Margo Channing so memorably said in the 1950 film All About Eve: "Fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy night."
Telstra phone retailers an unhappy bunch
IT was all smiles and platitudes at the launch of Telstra's new flagship store in Melbourne not long after dawn last Thursday.
Splashing out to sell T3
TELSTRA chief executive Sol Trujillo has made no secret of his habit of using private jets and staying in top hotels.
It's back to the future for Conroy
Michael Sainsbury WHEN Macquarie Group pulled out last Friday from the tender for the national broadband network, which may now cost as much as $25 billion, Communications Minister Stephen Conroy landed pretty much where he started.
Broadband panel must distance from Allphones
Michael Sainsbury THE stench coming from mobile phone retailer Allphones is so bad that it is hurting Allphones chairman Tony Mitchell's membership of the expert panel overseeing a tender for the new national broadband network.
Telstra upgrade deadline is truth time for Sol
Michael Sainsbury WITH all the brouhaha over the planned national broadband network - the price of which seems to go up every time Sol Trujillo opens his mouth somewhere around the world (the latest estimate is $15 billion) - little attention is being paid to the travel-happy Telstra chief's biggest task.
Conroy orders delay on CDMA
IT'S game on. Only three months after its election, Kevin Rudd's Government has shown it is willing to intervene in the $34 billion telecoms sector.