Optus chief executive Paul O'Sullivan over the weekend said no decision had been made within parent Singapore Telecommunications to float the Australian subsidiary as a separate company.
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.
Executive chairman and chief executive of NBN Co Limited Mike Quigley will receive $1.95 million a year for his efforts.
Optus chief Paul O'Sullivan received a total pay package of $2.1 million in the year to 31 March 2009, the company's annual report released today has revealed.
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.
The inference that Soul, AAPT and TransACT were Dead Telcos Walking long before their withdrawals were announced makes me wonder whether Terria has always been, God help us all, just as flimsy a proposition as Telstra has made it out to be.
Fair is not what the National Broadband Network tender is about; it's bloodsport, and a fight for survival, and a challenge of the wills, and all the other sorts of superlatives you might expect from an Olympics announcer.
Telstra's antics have certainly kept the readers of Full Duplex amused this year. And as 2006 draws to an end, the laughs just keep on coming.
Like many reporters engaged in the shady business of covering the Australian telecommunications sector, I spent Friday, 6 October, at Telstra's mammoth eight hour investor briefing in Sydney.
Comedian and occasional Optus chief executive Paul O'Sullivan took up the microphone again last week as he continued his campaign of targeting Telstra with bad jokes.
Optus CEO Paul O'Sullivan had it right when he said that the new National Broadband Network would be a commercial failure unless there was only one network that included Telstra's fixed-line assets.
commentary: It is not a foregone conclusion that the successor to outgoing Telstra CEO Sol Trujillo will be internally sourced.
Optus staff are steadily moving into the telecommunications giant's brand new eight hectare campus in Sydney's North Ryde, and if appearances are anything to go by, the old North Sydney headquarters will soon be forgotten.
Yes, says iiNet, and the telco giant's price chains are keeping smaller players from venturing down the rural broadband route.
Optus will resell Personal Broadband Australia's iBurst wireless broadband solution, and is in talks with Unwired about a similar deal.
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