Telstra announced today that newly appointed CEO David Thodey had already taken up the mantle of CEO after the outgoing head Sol Trujillo left before his scheduled June departure date.
Telstra has confirmed it closed the shutters on its nowwearetalking.com.au website, which at times has been used as a mouthpiece to promote its telecommunications sector regulatory ambitions.
Would-be successor to both Sol Truijillo and Ziggy Switkowski, David Moffatt has called it quits after eight years with Telstra.
Telstra on Friday activated the HSPA technology needed to boost its Next G network to 21Mbps and made the first data call using the new speeds.
Telstra is expected to appoint its enterprise and government chieftain David Thodey as its new chief executive as early as today, according to multiple reports.
Telstra changed so much internally under Sol Trujillo's watch that it seems likely the company's next CEO will be drawn from a small pool of executives who are already well practised in the Way of Sol.
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Virtually everyone in the telecommunications industry has their say in the Senate Standing Committee's public hearing into the pending legislation to split up Telstra, in this week's Twisted Wire podcast.
Net neutrality has the superficial attraction of 1960's free love, argues Telstra's Justin Milne, until you realise that one party gets all the gratification while the other bears all the costs.
The appointment of Telstra's new management represents a break from the company's past of friction with the Federal Government and regulators. But, however it is presented, Telstra's stance towards those seeking to reduce it has to continue to be aggressively defensive.
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.
For the first time, Kaz chief Mike Foster tells the full story about how the Peter Kazacos' baby was treated within Telstra, and how the deal with Fujitsu went down.
IBRS advisor Guy Cranswick argues that the use of net neutrality is an aggressive manoeuvre to retain market share and withhold change in the telecommunications market.
Vodafone Australia and Telstra Wholesale will conduct a network partnering trial which will see the two telcos share mobile base stations in central regional Victoria.
Telstra expects the increased uptake of the recently launched Blackberry wireless e-mail/data solution to help drive non-SMS data revenue from less than 10 percent to 70 percent of that achieved from SMS.
Telstra customers can now access their Yahoo Instant Messenger account on their mobile phones, via SMS.
Telstra Country Wide has announced a AU$231 million investment in 2003/04 to improve services to regional areas.
Microsoft is continuing to push the Tablet PC as the "evolution of computing", and this time, it claims, the product will catch on.
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