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News (23)

• Telstra launches new blogging site

  Putting the troubled history of its nowwearetalking website behind it, Telstra has re-launched its efforts to communicate with customers and stakeholders online, focused on a new blogging site dubbed "Telstra Exchange".

• Tanner: Telstra split not a Labor back flip

  Despite icing a 2002 plan to pursue Telstra's structural separation due to concerns Labor had for its private shareholders, Minister for Finance Lindsay Tanner today said its current position was no different.

• Telstra profits head upward

  Telstra has signalled weaker earnings growth in the 2009/10 financial year as it continues to face the impact of a softer economy on customer spending, after posting a 10.3 per cent rise in annual profit.

• Conroy praises Telstra diplomacy

  Minister for Communications Stephen Conroy yesterday said a meeting with Telstra chief David Thodey had given him hope that the telco was open to a "meaningful dialogue" as the government wades through its industry regulatory reform submissions.

• Telstra strategy won't change: Thodey

  Telstra's broad strategy would remain unchanged, the telco's incoming chief executive David Thodey told journalists this morning, following confirmation of his appointment.

Blogs (4)

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  Bluff called, can Conroy still tame Telstra?

  How well Stephen Conroy handles Telstra's challenge will determine whether we're hurtling towards a great new era in telecommunications, or fated to even more years stuck in the grip of Telstra's well-entrenched market position.

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  Does Thodey have a deal in the CAN?

  As Telstra CEO David Thodey and CFO John Stanhope fronted a mob of concerned investors at the company's Investor Day this week, it became clear just how far removed the Telstra of today is compared to the Telstra of a year ago.

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  Can the Telco Reform Act be win-win?

  In the second of our two programs looking at the Senate Inquiry into the Telecommunications Legislation Amendment Bill, we hear from shareholders, bureaucrats and industry groups.

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  Will Rudd's 'adios' threaten NBN funding?

  As the knee-jerk defensive responses to Rudd's "adios" subside and Australia moves on, has Rudd made Australia that little less appealing to the overseas investors he desperately needs to fund his NBN?

Features and Case Studies (12)

• Trujillo was a costly mistake for Telstra

  We can now conclude that Telstra went backwards during the Trujillo era, and that the board's decision in June 2005 to sack Ziggy Switkowski and install a team of expensive Americans to run the company was a mistake.

• Telstra should plan for separation

  If Telstra is serious about engaging with the Federal Government over the National Broadband Network it should immediately start the work needed to break itself in two.

• Carving up Sol's bounty

  Sol Trujillo's payout disclosed in Telstra's remuneration report attracted a lot of attention as soon as it was released. But the real story in the report is about the over-the-top pay deals stitched up by Trujillo before he left.

• Mike Quigley: The background check

  Father, brother, cancer survivor, highly intelligent engineer and leader of the "Australian mafia" group of executives who battled their way to the top of global telco supplier Alcatel-Lucent. We present Mike Quigley, executive chairman of the National Broadband Network Company.

• Telstra's IT sins

  When Telstra launched its IT transformation in 2005, then chief operations officer Greg Winn said "IT is the root of all evil in the telco industry".

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  Ellison modelling Oracle on IBM

  At a Churchhill Club event, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison talks to former Sun Microsystems President Ed Zander about Oracle's recent acquisition of Sun Microsystems. He says hed like to pattern the new Oracle after T.J. Watson Jr.'s IBM, combining both hardware and software systems.

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