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IT services titan has won a five-year deal to provide the European division of insurance giant QBE with application development and maintenance services.
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So a successful NBN negotiation will require the government to recognise the must-haves that Telstra and its shareholders will bring to the table. Conversely, it will require Telstra to recognise the government's non-negotiable requirement: a more competitive market for broadband services.
The not-so-secret campaign by the Future Fund to evict Donald McGauchie from the chair of Telstra's board doesn't appear to have gained much traction. It is also unclear whether it was necessary.
Australia's IT industry needs to follow the example laid down in Queensland this week and band together to lobby for more government support instead of individual firms fruitlessly pushing their own campaigns.
Australia's third-largest telecommunications company, AAPT, has been left at the altar so many times that there is understandable scepticism that it will tie the knot in 2009.
The long-term net impact of Gershon's idealistic review will realistically be negligible at best and at worst will prove to be a distraction for years to come.
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