Top executives at Telstra and vendor partners Ericsson and Alcatel came under fire this morning from an unlikely source: a rogue sprinker system at the telco's annual investor briefing.
Telstra has defended itself against claims its chief executive Sol Trujillo last year showed favouritism in awarding a lucrative deal to a supplier with which he had been associated in previous roles.
The telco's move to reduce its internal technology platforms was around 15 percent complete, nearly one year after its transformation strategy was first announced.
Telstra cut around 1,000 full-time staff positions in the six months from June 30 last year and has commenced the network buildouts it announced in November.
Long-time Alcatel-Lucent veteran Mike Quigley has been appointed executive chairman of the National Broadband Network Company and is expected to eventually be its chief executive officer and managing director.
Like many reporters engaged in the shady business of covering the Australian telecommunications sector, I spent Friday, 6 October, at Telstra's mammoth eight hour investor briefing in Sydney.
Time will tell how the rest of the NBN Co board shapes up, but it's hard to dismiss the credentials of its two most high-profile appointments so far.
There's a certain ridiculousness to Alcatel-Lucent's National Broadband Network video production that goes to the heart of an obvious worry that it will ultimately be left out when the cheques are signed.
Mike Quigley and Doug Campbell's long-standing relationships with Telstra and few of its rivals will lead Australia's telecommunications industry to question privately whether Telstra will receive a phenomenal level of access to the NBN decision-making processes.
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