[LINK] Doubt cast on Trujillo's track record

[Richard Chirgwin]

Howard Lowndes wrote:
> http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200609/s1745775.htm
>
> Serious questions have been raised about the competency of Telstra 
> boss, Sol Trujillo, during his time as the chief executive officer of 
> US West - one of America's biggest telephone companies.
>
> Mr Trujillo has been heavily criticised on the SBS's Dateline program 
> for failing to deliver basic services while in the US West job, which 
> he held prior to his appointment in Australia.
>
> US West was investigated by a telecommunications commission and 
> ordered to refund $11 million to customers.
>
> Despite failing to deliver basic telephone services, Mr Trujillo was 
> paid out more than $US72 million when he left the company.
>
> He was given a further $US100 million in shares.
>
> Senior Telstra executive Phil Burgess has defended Mr Trujillo, saying 
> that government regulation is to blame for Mr Trujillo's past record 
> and for Telstra's current woes.
Wot's that? "My failure is the government's fault"? Geez, and I thought 
only hopeless leftie welfare recipients said things like that!

RC

>
> "Against the policy of the Government, against the policy of the Labor 
> Party, against the policy of the Liberal Party, we have a rogue 
> regulator here which is going down a path which is different from the 
> Government, which says there should be a national uniform price," he 
> said.
>
> Mr Trujillo declined to be interviewed for the Dateline story.
>