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• 99 per cent of shareholders vote in favour of Telstra/NBN Co deal

  Telstra shareholders appear to have voted almost unanimously in favour of the $11 billion financial heads of agreement with NBN Co, following two year of negotiations around the deal.

• Telstra submits SSU and migration plan to ACCC

  Telstra (ASX:TLS) has submitted detailed structural separation plans to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), pending shareholder approval, which it intends to meet by 2018.

• Google taking up Telstra’s network: Thodey

  Search and Cloud services giant Google is responsible for nearly half of all Telstra’s traffic and mobile is data is doubling every year, according to Telstra chief executive David Thodey.

• Thodey calls for telco unity on customer service

  Telstra chief executive, David Thodey, has issued a call to arms for the telecommunications industry to unite under a single voice, in an attempt to more effectively influence economic and policy influences on the industry.
  

• Telstra pushes back shareholder vote on NBN Co deal

  Telstra (ASX:TLS) has pushed back an extraordinary general meeting initially scheduled in July for shareholders to vote on its financial heads of agreement with NBN Co, but has continued to advise that negotiations remain on track.
  

• Telstra LTE network coming by year's end

  Telstra is set to become the first Long Term Evolution (LTE) network operator in Australia, with plans to launch the technology publicly in all Australian capital cities and some regional centres by the end of the year.
  

• Telstra hedges bets on NBN uncertainty

  Telstra has assured all measures of uncertainty are covered in negotiations with NBN Co and the Australian Government around an $11 billion financial heads of agreement that will separate the telco structurally and remove it from the competitive wholesale market.

• Project New becomes "business as usual" at Telstra

  Telstra's program to simplify management and employment structure has become "business as usual" since its inception in September, according to chief executive, David Thodey.

• Telstra transformation strategy achieving results: Thodey

  Telstra’s transformation strategy is beginning to see early signs of success according to the telco’s chief executive, David Thodey.

• Telstra uses Salesforce for crowd sourcing

  The use of the Salesforce Ideas internal forum has created more than 300 company initiatives for Telstra since it began using the application in March 2010.

• 950 to go in Telstra management shake-up

  950 executive and middle management roles are set to be cut at several of Telstra’s capital city offices over the coming months as the incumbent telco attempts to simplify business structures in what it has labelled ‘Project New’.

• Telstra signs on to Tasmanian NBN

  Telstra is planning a customer trial in October of its broadband services and products
  over the National Broadband Network in Tasmania.

• Telstra slashes ICT spend in FY10

  Telstra may have slashed its IT spend by almost half over the last 12 months, but the troubled telco has still managed to rack up a sizable $652 million in investments in the year to 30 June 2010.

• Telstra to reap $11b from NBN deal

  One of the biggest challenges to the Federal Government's national broadband network (NBN) plan has been overcome with Telstra (ASX:TLS) and NBN Co reaching an agreement on the telco's involvement in the network rollout.

• Thodey: Telstra's CEO one year on

  It’s been a year marked by numerous challenges, such as the spectre of separating his company, and tough negotiations with the Government and NBN Co around the National Broadband Network (NBN).