Telstra today promoted one of its key internal IT executives to the position of chief information officer, almost two years after its last CIO Fiona Balfour left in February 2007.
Commonwealth Bank of Australia's billion-dollar telecommunications deal recently inked with Telstra contains provisions allowing the bank to guard itself against any effects of regulatory separation in the telco's operations, the bank revealed this week.
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia yesterday said it would announce the winner of its 10-year, $1.3 billion managed telecommunications deal at the end of March.
The next 18 months would be a "critical" time in Telstra's ongoing transformation of its operational support systems, the telco's chief information officer John McInerney said today.
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