[LINK] Friday funny a little early

stephen at melbpc.org.au stephen at melbpc.org.au
Sun Aug 5 02:51:01 AEST 2007


At 12:18 PM 4/08/2007, Steve writes:

> Kevin writes on 2/8/07 3:45 PM:
>
>> Did no-one else catch the irony of a Foreign National in charge of one
>> of our largest public companies (in fact, part of a Troika) banging on
>> about the dangers of having Foreign Nationals in charge??

Yes .. it's astonishing .. get rid of the idiot, and his whole team. As an
aside, I understand the chief rival for Trujerko when he got the job was a 
very talented Australian Telstra person, whom has now left the company :-( 

Is it foolish to hope that Telstra will ever again work WITH the Ausssie 
Government Communications Minister, and help to build a better Australia? 

Telstra, Coonan to slug it out in court
By Michael Sainsbury and Jennifer Hewett
August 04, 2007 12:00am

IN an escalation of its acrimonious battle with the federal Government, 
Telstra is taking Communications Minister Helen Coonan to court.

The proceedings in the Federal Court, which began yesterday, centre on 
Senator Coonan's recent decision to give nearly $1billion to Telstra's 
main rival, Singtel Optus, to improve regional broadband services. 

The move comes after attacks on the Government over the past week by 
Telstra chairman Donald McGauchie, chief executive Sol Trujillo and 
regulatory chief Phil Burgess. <snip>

In what is essentially a fishing expedition, Telstra wants the court to 
force Senator Coonan to hand over documents explaining how this decision 
was made.

The action is the most personal yet in the poisonous relationship between 
the telco and the minister. A spokesman said Telstra was unaware of any 
precedent for its actions. 

Senator Coonan said: "The fact that no one can hide from is that Telstra 
put in a bid for funding; it was independently assessed and then soundly 
beaten by a superior bid from Opel. 

"According to Telstra's own admission, its bid would have covered only 
250,000 under-served premises, less than half that covered by Opel."

"This is just a case of an ordinary bid being blown out of the water by an 
outstanding bid and the loser not happy with the umpire's decision." 


> Why aren't the media all over this??
> - If he's right, then he's indicted himself and the Three Amigos.
> - If he's wrong, then what is he doing in that job?
>
> Or are we so close to being the 51st state, that he and we can't
> distinguish between Aus & the USA?
>--
> http://www.industrysearch.com.au/news/viewrecord.aspx?id=27332
>
> 2/08/2007 - There could be national security concerns if the federal
> government allows the Optus-led G9 group of telcos to build a national
> high speed broadband network, a top ranking Telstra executive says.
>
> Phil Burgess, ....
>   
> "Why would you want somebody outside your country to control
> telecommunications," <snip>
>
> "How could you have the nerve centre of the country not touch on national
> security?
>
> "It goes right to the heart of national security.
>
> <snip>
> Source: AAP NewsWire
>
> Best Regards
>
> Kevin Emery
> Managing Director
> West Australian Networks Pty Ltd,
> WWW: http://www.westnet.net.au
> Po Box 532, HILLARYS 6923 Western Australia
>   
>-- 
> Steve Jenkin, Info Tech, Systems and Design Specialist.
> 0412 786 915 (+61 412 786 915)
> PO Box 48, Kippax ACT 2615, AUSTRALIA
> sjenkin at canb.auug.org.au http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sjenkin



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