Telstra has announced a cull in its access network supplier contracts, trimming 100 contracts and 100 vendors to three -- Service Stream, Silcar and Visionstream -- with a view to saving AU$140 million over two years.
Queensland's ICT industry is up in arms about a state government proposal to handle the recruitment of all IT contractors through one master vendor to drive down contracting costs.
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I have seen the NBN, and it looks a lot like Christina Aguilera. Or, at least, it looked like her when I dropped into Ericsson's Melbourne headquarters recently to see a live demo of their NBN solutions. Yet behind the streaming TV, one question lingers -- and not even the government seems able to answer it.
Do the boards of IT companies deliberate extra carefully before making a deal with government for fear of having their name pulled through the dirt when they stuff up?
Aussie smartcard vendor ERG has decided to outsource to Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), and you can't help but think of the Qantas example.
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The NSW Department of Commerce is on the verge of finalising two whole-of-government technology panel contracts worth about $120 million, the NSW Office of Procurement confirmed today.
When you really get down to it, former Victoria Police chief information officer Valda Berzins and her offsider John Brown aren't so different from many other IT managers in the public sector.
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.
How on earth can organisations justify paying their IT executives millions of dollars in bonuses, or in the case of the public sector, handing out salaries of half a million dollars?
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