And you 'care' about Australia by supporting a foreigner that is doing his
best to dismantle and discredit one of Australia's largest employers?

http://news.sbs.com.au/dateline/index.php?page=transcript&dte=2006-09-20&headlin
eid=1184

"Just over two years after Sol Trujillo took over at Graviton, the company
had burnt through nearly all its money and was heading for collapse"

"In mid-1999 the commission initiated proceedings investigating whether the
company was in breach of its service obligations. The period of
investigation covered 16 months, from January 1998 through April 1999 - a
period when Sol Trujillo was CEO and chairman of US West.  The commission's
own staff testified that at a time when demand for phone services was
booming, US West investment in plant and equipment was declining."

"They remember Sol Trujillo in Oregon as well. In particular, I'm interested
in what they remember in rural areas. I reach Oakridge, where Sue Bond is
the Mayor.
SUE BOND, MAYOR OF OAKRIDGE: We had very poor service. Our service was out
20% percent of the time at least, more in the winter. The lines were poor,
the connections were poor. Lot of static on the lines. "

"his promises to invest in infrastructure from 1995 to 1999 and make service
better and instead it continued to deteriorate. "

"I think what he did was to dramatically cut back on the amount of money
spent serving customers "

"the US West board, under the chairmanship of Sol Trujillo, moved the
dividend date of record back by a week and a half to July 10. This meant the
dividend, totalling $270 million, was never paid (to shareholders) because
by that time, US West no longer existed. "

"In that situation the shareholders didn't get their 53 cents per share but
Sol Trujillo walked out with $70 million. Coincidentally, the law suit that
affected the rights of ten thousands of people was settled for $50 million.
So they've got to divvy up $50 million, whereas one man walks away with over
$70 million. That's not right. "

And then there's this:
http://apcmag.com/6160/the_wiggles_more_trusted_than_telstra_ceo_reader_survey

He only just beat David Hicks and Sheik al-Hilali in the 'who would you
trust' stakes.

The share price doesn't reflect that claim.
Maybe if he concentrated on running the company and supporting Telstra's
customers (i.e Doing his f.cking job), rather than pointlessly attacking the
government and the ACCC, the share price might be doing a bit better.....

Yep, if thats what it takes to get a decent satellite service and to
provide real competition to those yank arseholes 'running' telstra
who are choosing to shaft the country on FTTN etc etc etc.

The LAST thing the govt should be doing is to be stupid enough to give telstra
even more of a monopoly than it already has with wholesale broadband.

Corse it is, fuckwit.

Go and f.ck youself. Have a look at his record in every single one of
the operations he f.cked up completely before he showed up here.

Every single one involved a pointless stoush with the
regulatory authoritys, as he drove it into the ground.

Easy to claim. Hell of a lot harder to actually substantiate that claim.

In spades with completely f.cking up telstra/govt relations so that the
govt takes every opportunity to f.ck telstra over now, most obviously with
making an obscene gesture in telstra's general direction by awarding the
contract for regional and rural broadband to Opel, imposing the license
condition on the shutting of the cdma service, and the new capital city
broadband where they will f.ck telstra over even more enthusiastically, you watch.

Even Labor will do that if the voters are actually stupid enough to elect them too.

<reams of your puerile sh.t any 2 year old could leave for dead flushed where it belongs>

This would have to be the lamest excuse out!  Don't give me this crap
about Optarse and revenue going off shore, Sol and his mate's are taking
as much as they can out of Tel$tra and putting it offshore before they
completely f.ck the company and bolt back to the US!

The Government should have kept Tel$tra and made it infrastructure only
and NEVER deal with the public again.  Resellers could have created the
competition.  Too late now, that will never happen and as a result we
are the laughing stock of the world when it comes to Telecommunications
and the Internet.

Where does Tel$cum get it's equipment from and the phones it sells? All
Australian made?

And the seppos clearly don't care about Australia - or Tel$cum, for that
matter!

'Telstra' != 'Australia'.

But in any case, is it your argument that no Australian company should
buy services from a foreign entity?

Further, do you argue that no foreign entity should buy services or
products from Australian companies?