The contract disclosed this week by the federal government's contracts reporting system lasts from just today until 30 September this year.
Neither Telstra nor the Department of Parliamentary Services returned calls enquiring about the contract.
The news comes as several of the department's one-year telecommunications contracts with Telstra and other carriers have recently expired at the end of June, according to disclosure documents posted on the department's Web site:
- Optus (Communications services, AU$429,008)
- PowerTel (Communications services, AU$213,107)
- AAPT (Telephone account, AU$170,870)
- Telstra (Telephone and Internet charges, AU$1,373,593).
ZDNet Australia has been unable to confirm if the expiry of these contracts is related to the new Telstra deal.
The department also has a telecommunications facilities management contract with Telstra that commenced in February 2001 and is due to end in Februay 2008. That deal was worth AU$1,726,929 for the year from July 2005 through June 2006.
Telstra must be pleased. They've lost so many customers & it seems no-one likes them anymore. Perhaps we don't like Trujillo running the company & forgetting what they're supposed to do.
What is that I hear you ask? What? You don't know! How? How can you not?
Telstra is supposed to provide a SERVICE!
No!
Yes! They are. They just forgot, that's all. All they know about since Tru came along is the shareholders. Can't blame them really. Don't really care about service when you've got screaming harpies in your ear all the time. Got to provide the money without the service so that you can make believe that a service is really there anyway.
That's what makes the money. Shareholders screaming!
Perhaps if Telstra had remained a public entity instead of the nightmare operation that Twinketoes Howard hath created, by selling it off & then claiming to have made a fortune for the country, rather than what trujilly happened when he placed the country into Banana-land non-republic facing a bunch of temporary fruits then we would have an opportunity to have a real communications network.
Twinkletoes, you really do have no brain, no heart & no guts!