Sol's Bright Ideas Dim The Hopes Of Many At Telstra
Sydney Morning Herald
Thursday November 17, 2005
Wow - "faster delivery of video clips, sport and news to mobiles" ("Telstra's $26b line to the future", November 16). I think that is well worth the jobs of 12,000 fellow Australians. Now they will have something to entertain themselves when they are unemployed (assuming they can afford it). I wonder, though, will Sol turn off the lights when he is the last person left at Telstra?
Warren Rich Gwynneville Not happy, Sol. The CDMA network is perfect for rural areas as it still operates on a weak signal with few drop-outs, unlike GSM. Few of us want Britney jingles or share price downloads, but it is essential we can call for help when someone is seriously injured or sick. Replacing this recently installed, excellent system with an inferior one is not only stupid but a terrible waste of shareholders' funds. Tony Snellgrove Uki Twelve thousand jobs on the line. Telstra workers will have real bargaining power, won't they, Barnaby?Loretta Baker Lorn Thank goodness there's only a Sol Trujillo. I'd hate to see two of them running Telstra or any other company, come to that.Randolph Magri-Overend Point Clare What splendid timing, Sol. On the very day that hundreds of thousands of people march through the streets protesting about a new dog-collar act, Telstra proudly announces that it, and its high-priced American imports, are to sack 12,000 of its workforce. Gives one that great, warm inner glow, doesn't it? Frank McQuade Kogarah I'd like to know what regional Australians thought about this excerpt from Sol Trujillo's much anticipated announcement: "How do you operationalise this notion of these value propositions? You execute it in terms of the product sets and applications and services, by segment. You operationalise it by the channels that you use to interface with those customers." Why can't he just say it wants to provide better service and products to customers?Alison Sweeney Randwick So Sol's going to operationalise Telstra. Don't you just love American management - if you can't convince the stakeholders, make up a word and confuse them.Victor Marshall Erskineville
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