News Source: The Australian
| 3 months ago
HE global financial crisis would not diminish Telstra's ability to fund the roll-out of a $10-$15 billion national broadband network. Chief executive Sol Trujillo yesterday told a business lunch in Melbourne, that aid Telstra expected to produce...
News Source: Androscoggin News
| 3 months ago
Sol Trujillo was clearly feeling a lot of love for the audience at his lunchtime speech to the American Chamber of Commerce yesterday. In the few minutes set aside for questions, Trujillo was asked firstly about the likely split between wireless and...
News Source: Sydney Morning Herald
| 3 months ago
And in a veiled warning to the Federal Government, Telstra's boss, Sol Trujillo, said the company was "simply not in a position to bid or to build" the network if it resulted in a forced split of its business. "To even contemplate the prospect of...
News Source: The Age
| 3 months ago
The biggest impediment to Telstra winning the national network tender, now under way, is its furious opposition to any further separation of its network and retail divisions, and that it would rather boycott the tender than accept stricter rules.
News Source: Androscoggin News
| 3 months ago
The federal government plans to establish the $4.7 billion network which aims to deliver high-speed internet services to 98 per cent of the population. NBN) contract, says the network should be rolled into capital cities from the bush. Terria chair...
News Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 3 months ago
Officials from the Terria consortium have appeared at a Senate inquiry into the Federal Government's proposed national broadband network. Terria's chairman Michael Egan has told the inquiry he fears Telstra will use the national broadband contract to...
News Source: The Australian
| 3 months ago
Susanna Dunkerley in Canberra October 08, 2008 THE federal Government must ensure its planned national broadband network is not run by one single carrier, a Senate inquiry has been told. The government plans to establish the $4.7 billion network...
News Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 3 months ago
The Federal Government will receive tenders for the network by the end of November. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission will give advice to the Government's expert panel, which is expected to recommend a successful bidder by February...