Photos: How Thodey transformed Telstra
From turbulent Trujillo to Australia's leading telco.
Telstra CEO David Thodey today announced his retirement from the telco after six years at the helm. We look back at how Thodey transformed Telstra from a much-maligned monopoly to Australia's leading telco.
Signing the $11 billion NBN definitive agreements.
Thodey successfully signed an $11 billion deal with the federal government to roll out the national broadband network in 2011, after the telco (under former CEO Sol Trujillo) was disqualified from a bid for the project for failing to submit a compliant tender. Thodey was able to smooth over tensions arisen between his predecessor and the federal government to sign a deal which saw Telstra decommission its copper network and move fixed line broadband customers to the NBN as it was rolled out - at least until the 2013 federal election.
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