[LINK] the Telstra TruJerko Trio

[Craig Sanders]

On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 12:01:31PM +0000, stephen at melbpc.org.au wrote:
> It's about time Link did a job on the Trujillo-troika ...
> 
> Eg, on page 3 of the 'Age Business' today, one reads that:
> 
>   "Telstra has dubbed the ACCC a *renegade agency*  after
> it rejected Telstra's latest proposal to more than double the
> wholesale connection charges for its rivals (and that) rates to
> and from mobile phones increase from 1c /min to 2.2c /min"
> 
> Of course Telstra shares fell another 2 cents at this news. Mind
> this is during the period Telstra pledged not to attack regulators
> during this pre-sale time period. Good on you, Trujerko. Smart!

IMO, Trujillo was hired specifically to bring down the telstra share
price so that institutional investors could get a T3 bargain. as soon as
it's sold, all the troubles with the ACCC will be magically resolved,
the govt will give the ACCC a severe kicking (they must be itching to
do that to those commie bastards who are unfortunately needed for the
moment), and the share price will head back up.

> I suspect that a fair proportion of Linkers would be happy with
> anything Link may do to help rid us of the three Telstra clowns?
> And, imho, one could be fairly certain Johnnie Howard and Co
> would applaud anything Link may well achieve in this regard :-)

why would "Honest" John applaud that - Trujillo is doing exactly as
instructed.

IMO, the supposed hostility between them is a carefully choreographed
act.

> If Telstra where a sports team we would have dumped these three jerks
> long ago.

exactly. one or two stuff-ups could be expected and wouldn't even
necessarily indicate incompetence, just bad luck. a repeat pattern
of them - with the same result, a drop in share price, each time -
indicates conspiracy.


> How can one continue to have feelings of loyalty towards Telstra?

i don't think many (if any) have any loyalty towards telstra.

loyalty towards the idea of publicly-owned telecomms infrastructure,
though, is another thing.

IMO, telstra should be split into infrastructure (i.e. maintainence and
wholesale) and sales & marketing. infrastructure should stay in public
hands, and S & M can compete for business along with all the others.  of
course, that wont and cant happen now.

craig

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craig sanders <cas at taz.net.au>           (part time cyborg)