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Called To Account
The conflicting pressures within Telstra: can it keep both its customers and its shareholders satisfied?TICKY FULLERTON: It's been a pretty rough year for the global telecommunications industry.
You wouldn't have guessed it, though, at Australia's second annual telco awards three weeks ago.
ANNOUNCER: The winner of the Telco Company of the Year is Telstra.
TICKY FULLERTON: The biggest grin belonged to Telstra, the 600-pound gorilla which walked off with the top two gongs.
DR ZIGGY SWITKOWSKI, CEO, TELSTRA: Minister Alston, industry colleagues, ladies and gentlemen.
I am pleased to accept this award on behalf of all of the men and women of Telstra, and I am proud to do so.
TICKY FULLERTON: For Telstra's boss, a man whose leadership and management has been under attack, this was a brighter moment.
ANNOUNCER: The winner of the CEO of the Year Award goes to Dr Ziggy Switkowski.
MAN: Oh, well, the Brownlow Medal of the industry.
That's a pretty good effort.
DR ZIGGY SWITKOWSKI: I'm just one of the suits.
MAN: Yeah.
OK, yeah.
DR ZIGGY SWITKOWSKI: Look, I tell you what.
If there was a party held around the world for telco CEOs and management teams who were successful in the year 2001, ah, I think the bar bill wouldn't be all that great, but Telstra would be there.
TICKY FULLERTON: It's true that Telstra has set records this year -- a $4.1 billion profit.
Service, too, is at an all-time high, according to industry benchmarks.
That's the good news.
The bad news is that Telstra has put 2 million Australian investors offside, especially Telstra 2 shareholders, who want to know why the shares they bought for $7.40, and which rose to over 9 bucks, now languish around the $5 mark.
MATILDA PATON: I just don't understand why it's actually dropped so dramatically.
PETER MORGAN, FUND MANAGER, PERPETUAL INVESTMENTS: Where you see a billion dollars written off quite quickly, ah, as an example, um, that's a lot of money.
TICKY FULLERTON: Tonight on Four Corners we ask why shareholders, who had most to gain from Australia's most ambitious experiment in privatisation, are now sitting on a stock that's not playing to expectations.
ELECTRONIC VOICE: Directory assistance now uses voice recognition to provide you with frequently requested numbers.
TICKY FULLERTON: To many Australians, the only contact they make with Telstra is to call directory assistance.
ELECTRONIC VOICE: Please say the name you want.
WOMAN: Taxis Combined.
ELECTRONIC VOICE: Answering "yes" or "no", is Taxis Combined Services right?
WOMAN: Yes.
TICKY FULLERTON: For 10 months, this service has been automated.
But in 89 per cent of calls, the system forces the caller to wait and talk to a real operator.
ELECTRONIC VOICE: Please hold, and an operator will complete your request.
(Muzak plays).
TICKY FULLERTON: Telstra knows it falls a long way short of "giving good phone", but it's a perfect example of Telstra's ongoing dilemma. The Government will not permit Telstra to charge for directory services.
ELECTRONIC VOICE: The number is 8 --
TICKY FULLERTON: But to keep its shareholders happy, Telstra must cut back labour, and increase efficiency.
ELECTRONIC VOICE: That's 8 --
TICKY FULLERTON: Telstra hopes that the automated voice pushes callers to stop using the service that is costly to provide and let their fingers do the walking.
BOB MANSFIELD, CHAIRMAN, TELSTRA: I mean, you can use a Yellow Pages and look it up, as against going onto a telephone and call it, um, you don't pay for the Yellow Pages and you don't pay for the call, so we'd prefer people to be doing that.
TICKY FULLERTON: The result, it seems, is that neither the shareholder, nor consumer, is happy.
BOB MANSFIELD: We've got our shareholders, we've got our customers, we've got our major shareholder, the government.
We have special interest groups, and we have the media.
And at different times, you're tugged in different directions.
JOHN HOWARD, PRIME MINISTER: Kerry, I'm most accommodating.
TICKY FULLERTON: As we'll see, everyone, including our media barons, want a piece of Telstra.
But the biggest tensions that plague the telco are between shareholder and consumer, and far more so than any bank.
It's a legacy of being half-privatised.
Telstra has a legal duty to maximise value for shareholders, but its biggest shareholder is government, and that means Telstra's 5 million customers must be satisfied.
Out here in rural Australia, it can cost tens of thousands of dollars to connect a home, but it's a service Telstra must provide for a flat connection fee of 190 bucks.
BOB MANSFIELD: I just had some power put on, ah, on a property that I own and it cost me over $20,000 to get the power connected.
And it made me wonder, "How much did I pay to get a Telstra line put in?"
Because that's the contrast, and over time, now that we're not a public service, now that we have 2 million shareholders, we have to be very, very aware of being able to charge where we can -- charge the right price for the services we deliver.
TICKY FULLERTON: Telstra is the only carrier with a universal services obligation and is reimbursed through an industry-funded subsidy.
Government has offered the same subsidy to other carriers to wire the bush, but there's no money in it, and no takers.
DR ZIGGY SWITKOWSKI: If you ever see a competitor's van in regional Australia, it's only because it's lost.
And you see it now.
You see competitors inevitably will focus upon cherry picking the high-traffic routes or the areas where there's a concentration of customers.
TICKY FULLERTON: A reputation for really good service continues to elude Telstra.
This is GOC, Telstra's high-security Global Operations Centre, at an undisclosed location in Victoria.
It's here where all faults are monitored, from the local loop to breaks in submarine cables.
Telstra has spent millions on the technology, and in this election year is boasting fewer faults than ever before.
But customers don't just want fewer faults.
Even in the bush, they want high-tech services.
In 1998, the Government promised that 96 per cent of Australians could have Internet access.
CHARLES BRITTON, AUSTRALIAN CONSUMERS' ASSOCIATON: It's not only reasonable, it's essential.
Um, for citizens to be connected into an increasingly electronic society, they need to have the capacity to access the networks we all depend upon.
And we're seeing that now as a thrust into things like banking, where we have a universal service obligation being suggested and supported by numerous players.
TICKY FULLERTON: The combination of the Beazley anti-privatisation campaign and the Government-commissioned Besley report, critical of existing rural services, means government ownership and pressure is here to stay.
Rural consumers might approve, but shareholders don't.
JOHN CURRY, AUSTRALIAN SHAREHOLDERS' ASSOCIATION: We are being told by both political parties that Telstra is an instrument, almost, of social policy, and that it should be used in the, quotes, "national interest," close quotes.
Now national interest is a term that can be used to -- by scoundrels for their own purpose.
That's our real concern -- that people will tinker with Telstra.
TICKY FULLERTON: Ticky Fullerton, ABC.
You talked a little bit about the loss of premium on the Telstra share price.
Do you think the market has been fair to Telstra?
At the annual results announcement in August, when I asked Ziggy Switkowski about Telstra's low share price, there weren't too many mea culpas.
DR ZIGGY SWITKOWSKI: There isn't any correlation, at the moment, between share price in this industry and Telstra, and operating performance.
TICKY FULLERTON: If you are a shareholder wanting answers, this meeting provided little comfort.
ROBERT GOTTLIEBSEN, BUSINESS COMMENTATOR, 'THE AUSTRALIAN': While you are justifiably angry, it's counterproductive to simply say, "Well, I want to sack all the Telstra board.
"I want to sack all the Telstra management."
Remember, it wasn't just Telstra that was affected.
In fact, Telstra has been affected less than most other world telecommunication companies.
TICKY FULLERTON: Overseas, telcos like BT and Deutsche Telekom made fatal investments in new 3G technology that would bring the Internet to the mobile phone.
And all at the height of the dot.com bubble.
The international losses from 3G alone sit at over $100 billion.
Telstra too has been dragged down by the telco slump, but not as badly as many of its peers.
BOB MANSFIELD: If you look at our current price compared to the last 12 months, we're down roughly 30 per cent.
And the average overseas telco is somewhere between 45 per cent and 60 per cent down.
So even though we're down, we're not down as much as the others.
And against some of the blue chips in Australia, if you take News Corporation and National Australia Bank, we're down less than what they are.
DR ZIGGY SWITKOWSKI: This industry will recover.
It will bounce.
TICKY FULLERTON: But the other contribution to Telstra's share slump is closer to home.
Despite the gongs, the market lacks confidence in Ziggy Switkowski and, specifically, management's ability to deliver growth.
DR ZIGGY SWITKOWSKI: We loved the ride up in the exuberance of the late '90s and we haven't particularly enjoyed the ride down.
TICKY FULLERTON: Ziggy Switkowski's two years at the helm have brought radical change in the culture at Telstra.
His predecessor, American Frank Blount, led a team of hardened telco executives with a dislike for government and a mission to cut the fat from Telstra.
Over seven years, the workforce fell from almost 90,000 to just over 50,000.
ROBERT GOTTLIEBSEN: Frank Blount ran that whole operation with an iron fist, and he had about nine people reporting to him.
And Ziggy was only one, and no-one knew who would be the CEO and, in fact, Ziggy wasn't even the favourite.
TICKY FULLERTON: Now in the hot seat, Ziggy Switkowski is under pressure to get his share price back up.
He has two big jobs -- protecting Telstra's declining share of traditional phone business and, just as importantly, growing quickly in new telco businesses.
In the first area, the best Telstra can do is minimise the number of Australian homes lost to competitors.
It has one huge advantage.
It owns the last mile of copper wire between the exchange and 7 million houses, carrying over a million local calls per hour.
WOMAN (TELEVISION ADVERTISEMENT): On the phone, darling.
(Clock chimes).
(Broad Australian accent).
Hi, Narelle, it's me.
Hang on.
(Refined accent) Barry, have you taken Tyson for a walk?
(Broad accent) Oh, he must be in the toilet.
MAN: Have a really cheap conversation for as long as you like.
TICKY FULLERTON: Since deregulation, a decade ago, other players like Primus, Optus and AAPT have bet their shareholders' funds on grabbing as much of Telstra's local and long-distance business as possible.
Because Telstra owns the copper wire to the home, competitors like Primus have to pay Telstra an access fee to use the network.
That access fee, charged per call per minute, must be agreed between Telstra and its competition.
RAVI BHATIA, FOUNDER, PRIMUS TELECOM: Bloody tough.
Am I allowed to say that?
Simply because there is something called an access facility, local access, and that's a Telstra monopoly.
It's also called a bottleneck facility.
They own it all and it's been difficult for us to negotiate the right and fair rental prices for using that access facility.
TICKY FULLERTON: Primus founder Ravi Bhatia has argued that Telstra wants far too much for access.
High access prices are good for Telstra shareholders, but make life tougher for the competition and their customers.
They, however, have a strong advocate in the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.
PROFESSOR ALLAN FELS, CHAIRMAN, ACCC: There's just no other business in Australia that has this power.
Not the oil companies, not the banks.
Think of the most powerful companies -- BHP at the height of its steel monopoly -- none of them had dominance across all markets.
None of them had a position where any competitor had to use Telstra's own facilities in order to compete.
TICKY FULLERTON: Why is Allan Fels so critical of Telstra, do you think?
DR ZIGGY SWITKOWSKI: Now, you've got to tell me whether he IS critical.
TICKY FULLERTON: He is.
He's very critical.
He calls you powerful, the most powerful company in Australia.
Too powerful.
DR ZIGGY SWITKOWSKI: Ah.
I mean, I think to call Telstra too powerful is an easy headline, and it's probably a comment I would make about the ACCC as well.
But I think behind that comment is the implication that we've been too successful in the sense of we have become more commercial, we have served customers better, prices are coming down.
PROFESSOR ALLAN FELS: They spend over $50 million a year just on legal fees to fight us according to BRW.
They're also running quite a big lobbying campaign in the business media, with government, with political parties.
It pays them -- they're making big monopoly profits, and it's worthwhile for them to invest very heavily to protect them, and to protect them against the regulator.
TICKY FULLERTON: Last week, Telstra was claiming a victory over Allan Fels.
Prodded by the Government, it struck a deal on an access price with four players rumoured to be higher than the ACCC's recommended rate.
But Primus says it is still in negotiations with Telstra.
Telstra's justification for higher prices is that it needs to pay for upkeep and upgrade of its massive network.
A planned $20 billion over five years.
The ACCC doubts that Telstra's costs are as high as it says they are.
In branding alone, Telstra is all-powerful.
And if the company is using its muscle to protect profits rather than just recover costs, shareholders should be well pleased.
STEPHEN WOOD, ANALYST, DEUTSCHE BANK: They are the largest by some margin Internet provider in Australia, they have 50 per cent stake in the number one pay television business, and they have 45 per cent share in mobiles.
And I think if we look at Telstra's peers, for example, British Telecom is not the largest Internet provider in the UK, it does not have the number one market share in mobile, and it has limited, if any, presence at all in pay television.
TICKY FULLERTON: Yet the reality is that Telstra's market share can only shrink.
And while the hope was that other markets would take up the slack, the competition is getting tougher.
Telstra's two great hopes for growth are mobiles and data, which includes Internet and a host of business services.
Together they make up a third of revenues.
Unfortunately, growth rates may have already peaked.
Take mobiles, where Telstra faces a threat from customers who can shop around and take their numbers with them.
The race is now on to win customer loyalty with cheap deals if they use the same carrier for home phone, mobile and Internet.
It's called 'bundling'.
STEPHEN WOOD: The real battleground over the next 12 to 18 months is going to be about, er, whether Telstra can steady those market share declines with its bundling strategies.
TICKY FULLERTON: Even with bundling, Telstra's growth, and therefore the share price, is a concern.
In August, Ziggy Switkowski told journalists that Telstra was looking at a flat six months ahead.
More recently he warned that the September 11 attack had affected demand, and that even growth in access fees was slowing.
The share price slumped 5 per cent on the news.
There was another area Telstra looked to for growth -- investing.
And it's here that Telstra management has lost its way.
Back in April 1999 under pressure from the market and the media to get into fashionable dot.coms Ziggy Switkowski brought on this man, former lawyer and ex-Optus pal Ted Pretty.
It appears that the mission for Telstra's so-called change agent was to speculate in high-tech stocks.
Pretty poured money into Wayne Boss's Sausage Software and Chris Tyler's Solution 6, and Telstra later joined forces with Keycorp.
As the Internet bubble grew, Telstra's presence on the share register of these dot.coms simply inflated them more.
The most controversial punt Telstra took was in Hong Kong, and right at the top of the market.
Its partner was this man, Richard Li, the son of property tycoon Li Ka-shing.
Li's dot.com company Pacific Century CyberWorks or PCCW had borrowed billions to buy Hong Kong Telecom.
And Telstra was only too happy to provide cash to get a foot in the Asian market.
The deal created two businesses costing Telstra a massive $3.5 billion in cash.
A joint investment in CSL, a Hong Kong mobile business, and a joint venture in the international cable company Reach into which Telstra put its cable assets.
At first, the strategy looked great.
In early 2000, Telstra was worth over $100 billion.
To celebrate their paper winnings, Ted Pretty took top managers to dinner at this Melbourne restaurant.
Each left with a bottle of Grange Hermitage.
The dot.com crash in March that year was a more sobering experience.
By October, in Asia, Telstra rushed to re-negotiate it's deal, keeping it's cash in but taking a bigger share.
However, it wasn't until this year's results that the full damage bill was confirmed to investors.
DR ZIGGY SWITKOWSKI: Our full year accounts reflect a significant $1 billion Australian write-down in our investment in CSL.
TICKY FULLERTON: A billion dollars lost.
The hype about new Asian partners was noticeably absent.
PCCW was never mentioned.
DR ZIGGY SWITKOWSKI: I don't know if you've ever had the feeling I've had where you, uh, where you buy something, perhaps, in a department store at full price, and then two weeks later you find it's been marked down 30 per cent in a sale.
And you think, "Darn", or whatever.
Well, that's a bit the way I feel around CSL.
It was still a neat outfit.
Looks classy.
Performing well.
It's just that -- wireless properties are on sale at the moment.
PETER MORGAN, FUND MANAGER, PERPETUAL INVESTMENTS: The example of buying a suit one day and seeing it discounted the next.
Well, perhaps there's another argument that maybe the vendor saw you coming as well.
But, uh, only time will tell with that.
JOHN CURRY, AUSTRALIAN SHAREHOLDERS' ASSOCIATION: The shareholders will be angry and they will vent their spleen on the board at the AGM.
TICKY FULLERTON: How do you convince ordinary shareholders that $1 billion isn't an extraordinary amount to overpay?
DR ZIGGY SWITKOWSKI: Well, look, let me in no way diminish that a billion dollars is a very large amount of money.
But what we did when we did the deal near the top of the valuations, is that since that time, the values of all these properties, including Telstra, have come down.
TICKY FULLERTON: Well, you had to recut the deal.
What on earth would the write-off have been if you hadn't recut the deal?
DR ZIGGY SWITKOWSKI: Well, it would've been higher, uh, although it's really important that when we made the investments a year and a half ago, we did them with a view that these were investments that were of a magnitude that did not compromise our balance sheet.
ROBERT GOTTLIEBSEN: I think that it was right for Australia and right for Telstra to buy into Hong Kong and, as the beginning of an Asian network.
It's exactly what Telstra should've done.
But they got their timing wrong.
That's not a reason to sack the CEO.
You sack the CEO and get upset with the CEO if he buys an asset that's not as he thought it was.
Or he buys an asset that is strategically bad, or he bets the company.
TICKY FULLERTON: However, there was a time in March 2000 when Ziggy Switkowski and his chairman very nearly did bet the company.
It was 'Project Patrick', a grand plan for Telstra to take over PBL, Kerry Packer's massive publishing and broadcasting empire.
ROBERT GOTTLIEBSEN: Remember that both Kerry Packer and Ziggy Switkowski and Bob Mansfield realised that in the world that's coming ahead, there is a really interesting situation to have a television operation and a telephone company operating together.
So the actual concept of the deal made sense, long-term.
But the price didn't make sense.
TICKY FULLERTON: At the time, PBL's share price peaked at $16.58, wildly inflated by its Internet business.
Today, those shares trade at just over nine bucks.
Had the deal gone through, Telstra's investment would've dropped over $4 billion in value.
The deal also could have left Government with an embarrassing half ownership of Australia's largest media empire, including Channel Nine.
Ziggy Switkowski and Bob Mansfield were raring to go.
Fortunately for them, 'Project Patrick' was knocked back by the Telstra board.
ROBERT GOTTLIEBSEN: It was a historic decision.
It's very rare in a company for both the chairman and the CEO to be rolled by the board.
But Bob was a new chairman, and he hadn't really lined up his directors carefully enough.
TICKY FULLERTON: Would you say that on several occasions it was the strength of the board that kept Telstra on the straight and narrow?
BOB MANSFIELD: Absolutely, we have a very open board environment and one where if we all sat round and agreed the whole time, I think, uh, that wouldn't be good.
TICKY FULLERTON: On this occasion, Telstra shareholders had a great deal to thank the board for.
ROBERT GOTTLIEBSEN: Had they bought Nine at the price Kerry wanted for it, then the share price of Telstra would not now have a five in front of it.
It mightn't even have a four in front of it.
You might have a $3.00-type price.
PETER MORGAN: You're buying from the Packer family, for want of a better word.
And gee, they haven't made too many mistakes and they've been selling things.
And, again, whether it's luck or a very good board decision, um, they've got out of it very well in hindsight.
TICKY FULLERTON: Interestingly, the one Telstra executive lobbying against 'Project Patrick' was Ted Pretty, the man responsible for all the other dot.com investments.
Kerry Packer, who nearly found his second Alan Bond, is said to have been enraged with Ted Pretty.
ROBERT GOTTLIEBSEN: Yes, and, uh, that was rough stuff.
I don't know the detail of what happened then, but the price didn't make sense.
Again, it was the price of the day.
It was just so inflated at that time, and Kerry knew that, and he was so cross when the deal didn't come off!
TICKY FULLERTON: With all the parties involved, 'Project Patrick' is still a forbidden subject.
Just a curiosity -- is there ever any talk today at PBL about what might have happened had 'Project Patrick' gone through?
PETER YATES, CEO, PUBLISHING & BROADCATING LTD: Uh, look, I can't comment on that, really.
It's difficult for two reasons.
One, I was acting for Telstra at the time, and now I'm here as CEO, so I don't really want to comment on that.
TICKY FULLERTON: At Telstra, the party line is to deny that the takeover was ever seriously contemplated.
I guess the one thing Ted Pretty did do was to stand firm against 'Project Patrick' going through, which would've bet the bank.
DR ZIGGY SWITKOWSKI: Now, 'Project Patrick' is one of those media legends that I've not ever acknowledged and won't.
TICKY FULLERTON: Why not?
Because Peter Yates has acknowledged it.
DR ZIGGY SWITKOWSKI: I've never commented about that, Ticky, and I don't intend to start today.
TICKY FULLERTON: Is it true that when you rang the Prime Minister to tell him 'Project Patrick' was off, he said he'd buy you a beer?
BOB MANSFIELD: I've never commented on that, as Ziggy said, and, er, I'm not going to start now.
TICKY FULLERTON: In fact, it may have been government ownership of Telstra that saved it from even greater gaffes like buying 3G wireless spectrum.
SENATOR RICHARD ALSTON, FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS MINISTER: I think Telstra's done remarkably well by world standards.
We, of course, did our bit by not allowing them to bid for the 3G until such time as there was a bit more realism out there in the marketplace.
ROBERT GOTTLIEBSEN: I think there's a very good case for that.
I think that if Telstra, back in 1998, er, had have been totally privatised and able to raise capital, it might well have gone in the same direction as the other world telcos.
TICKY FULLERTON: Of the investments Telstra did make, many went to pot.
But luckily for the telco, and thanks to one good buy, Computershare, it came out ahead.
It could have been worse.
And what worries Peter Morgan, manager of one of Australia's most successful funds, is the thinking behind these investment decisions.
PETER MORGAN: They're not big mistakes but they are, perhaps, a guide for the future.
It raises questions about the, about the homework and that's why it's important in this environment for the homework to be done properly and for Telstra to go forward from that position of strength.
DR ZIGGY SWITKOWSKI: We learnt the handicaps of being in minority equity positions.
We learnt how important it is to make better judgments about the quality of the leaders and the managements of the people of some of these companies.
And we also learnt how much more attentive we have to be internally to the way in which we execute the relationships.
TICKY FULLERTON: But this is the fundamental question, isn't it, because it goes to where you're going now -- um, where is the growth?
Mobile and data are arguably, you know, questionable.
Wholesale is looking good but it cannibalises your retail side.
Um, it's fair to ask, isn't it, where will the growth come from?
Where's your strategy, based on your track record?
DR ZIGGY SWITKOWSKI: Aha -- now, the answer to that will be consistently found way back from the T2 prospectus and it hasn't changed.
And what are the growth engines for the company?
Wholesale, data, mobiles, international, content.
TICKY FULLERTON: There are question marks around almost every sector that you mentioned in terms of whether they can deliver growth, er, in the near term.
DR ZIGGY SWITKOWSKI: Every one of those sectors is filled with opportunities and filled with risks.
TICKY FULLERTON: Telstra's judgment is on trial even in its traditional businesses, with the investment in Telstra Saturn, the main rival to New Zealand Telecom.
Two weeks ago, Telstra announced it would be bailing out its joint venture partner Austar to the tune of $120 million.
Let me just ask you about Telstra Saturn.
Someone described that to me as a dog waiting to bark.
Is it?
DR ZIGGY SWITKOWSKI: Well, again, unkind and colourful.
Telstra Saturn is now 15 months old.
I mean, people tend to make, want to make, er, early, er, commentaries about initiatives that are gonna play out over the years.
TICKY FULLERTON: If Telstra can't use its cash well, institutional investors like Peter Morgan would rather the company gave some of it back to shareholders as dividends.
PETER MORGAN: You know, where you see a billion dollars written off quite quickly, er, as an example, um, it's a lot of money.
And it's a lot of money that I potentially as a fund manager could've had.
BOB MANSFIELD: Since T1, not counting the special dividend with T1, the company's paid back $10.8 billion to shareholders in the form of dividends, including a $2.06 billion dividend after T2.
So, I think if you look at a company paying back to shareholders, we're right up there with the very best of them.
TICKY FULLERTON: These days, the Ziggy team no longer moves at Internet speed.
Ted Pretty has swapped the black skivvy for a conservative suit.
Extraordinarily, the man behind Telstra's failed dot.com foray now runs its most core business of retail.
In fact, some are quite convinced that Ted Pretty is after the top job.
DR ZIGGY SWITKOWSKI (TELECOM AWARDS, 2001): Thank you, Janelle.
Actually, I'm very pleased to be back up here.
I had to tell Ted Pretty to go and sit down again.
He was trying to get here ahead of me.
Um, and I am, I am really er, pleased, pleased to get this, er, I know, I've created all sorts of problems by saying that.
TICKY FULLERTON: No smoke without fire.
Is Ted Pretty the heir apparent at Telstra?
DR ZIGGY SWITKOWSKI: Oh, I think it's very unhelpful and premature to be speculating about any of the individuals on the Telstra team, in terms of succession.
That's a discussion for --
TICKY FULLERTON: You opened up the potential for it, though, with your comments last night.
DR ZIGGY SWITKOWSKI: Oh, I was just playing to what I understood to be the, er, you know, the gossipy interests of some in the, er, in the audience.
TICKY FULLERTON: Are you a strong leader, do you think?
DR ZIGGY SWITKOWSKI: Well, I suspect that's a question probably better put to others.
TICKY FULLERTON: It's a very different sort of management team from the one Frank Blount had around him with Peter Shore and Paul Rizzo, two very experienced telco executives.
Um, you've got experienced executives but not so much in telcos.
DR ZIGGY SWITKOWSKI: I would challenge that.
In the sense of the commentary about the current team.
And have a look where we find ourselves today.
I mean, Telstra is a much more commercial enterprise succeeding in a much more intense competitive environment.
TICKY FULLERTON: The truth is there are very few telco veterans left in Telstra management.
Recently, the job of Telstra's legal chief, Bruce Akhurst, was expanded to take in the wholesale business.
Along with Ted Pretty, these two lawyers effectively now run Telstra's core business.
The other ambitious executive is Telstra's new chief financial officer David Moffatt, hired from one of the world's top companies, GE.
All these men know that with the growth strategy stalled, the only other way to improve the bottom line is to cut costs, jobs and the bureaucracy.
ROBERT GOTTLIEBSEN: You can do it, er, in a sort of nice way.
Um, and, and work it, as Ted is obviously trying to do with, in conjunction with David Moffatt.
Or you bring in Al Dunlap.
Not personally, but an Al Dunlap and you get there with a machine gun.
And so, the next CEO of Telstra -- if Ziggy fails, and, and Pretty fails, and Moffatt fail -- will need to be a chainsaw man.
TICKY FULLERTON: With all these challenges ahead, it's important to have the right board.
While the names are strong, what is missing once again is telco experience.
Telstra has one other chance for growth, which over the long term promises a utopia of converging telephony, pay TV and Internet.
But it's also a Pandora's box.
Telstra owns half of Foxtel, but it has two powerful partners -- Murdoch and Packer.
And their relationship is mind-blowing.
Foxtel is losing money.
Until 2006, it's locked into outrageously expensive contracts with American movie companies.
PETER YATES: The movie programming deal that was struck was both at a high price and it was written in US dollars.
Now, the effect of that is, for example, let's say this year we're forecasting that Foxtel might lose around about $100 million, but what's interesting is about $70 million of that is the difference in the exchange rate between 65c and 50c.
TICKY FULLERTON: Despite the losses, in a future where telephony and pay TV may merge Foxtel's 750,000 subscribers have a real value to Telstra.
But pay TV watchers are fickle.
Five years ago Four Corners went to Elonara Road in Melbourne.
Back then, the Matthews family was hooked on Optus.
SANDY MATTHEWS: Well, I probably watch movies, I suppose, because I work fairly long hours and I come home late and there's always a movie to watch.
TICKY FULLERTON: Today, pressured by the kids, they've switched to market leader Foxtel.
PETER MATTHEWS: I preferred it.
SANDY MATTHEWS: I think they convinced us, didn't they?
Because they said, "The History Channel's great, Mum, and the National Geographic," which they are.
TICKY FULLERTON: As with mobile phones, Telstra's problem with pay TV is churn -- customers leaving or switching over to the competition.
Once again, a counter strategy is bundling.
Telstra's rival Optus has added 40,000 customers this year by offering discounted rates if pay TV and telephony are bundled.
Optus is after people like the Matthews, with an Optus phone and Foxtel.
TICKY FULLERTON: If Telstra or Optus came and knocked on the door and offered their telephony products and pay TV products bundled together at a lower price, would you look at it?
PETER MATTHEWS: I think --
SANDY MATTHEWS: We'd probably think about it.
PETER MATTHEWS: Certainly look and see what the offer was.
TICKY FULLERTON: So you could potentially move back to OptusVision pay TV or move to Telstra phones?
PETER MATTHEWS: Yes.
SANDY MATTHEWS: Yes, we could.
TICKY FULLERTON: Back at Foxtel, Telstra's dragging the chain on bundling.
PETER YATES: Foxtel have put forward a proposal that it should offer, effectively, bundling of telephony.
And that's something that Foxtel would like to do, and we've always said that we would like Foxtel to be able to offer bundled telephony.
TICKY FULLERTON: The sticking point is who would earn the customer -- Telstra or Foxtel?
Because Telstra is not willing to give up its phone revenues.
BOB MANSFIELD: Well, that's our core business.
I think the answer I'd have for that is would you let them do it, from the point of view of your core business being eaten away?
So the answer is pretty simple, and it's not often asked.
ANNOUNCER: With Foxtel, the information superhighway is no longer a dream.
TICKY FULLERTON: Apart from bundling, the other way to a future where phone, Internet and TV together unleash profits is to go digital, with 700 channels and interactive TV -- like Britain's BSkyB.
ANNOUNCER: -- with the touch of a finger.
TICKY FULLERTON: Back at Elonara Road, next door to the Matthews, Matilda Paton tried Foxtel and Optus but gave up both.
However, she might be tempted by digital TV.
MATILDA PATON: We're using the cable now for our Internet services.
So, until movies on demand actually become available, that will be the next step for us, is to actually subscribe to that service.
ANNOUNCER: Telstra has already prepared the way for digital broadband services --
TICKY FULLERTON: The hitch is that delivering digital TV will cost Telstra and its partners a cool $500 million.
ANNOUNCER: ..which allows for high-speed transmission of voice data and video.
PETER YATES: Unless we can see that the enhanced capabilities of a digital environment actually can support that sort of an investment, well, why would we do it?
TICKY FULLERTON: Another disincentive is Telstra's old nemesis, the ACCC.
Just like the rows over the old copper network, the partners fear they will be forced to grant access to their digital network to competitors at unacceptably low prices.
PETER YATES: Now, effectively the ACCC have said that even though we spend $500 million plus to create this 700-channel network, any party can have access to that infrastructure at 1/700th of the cost of that capital.
I, I mean, there is no -- private investment in this country that imposes such a requirement.
PROFESSOR ALLAN FELS: There are other reasons for the delay.
Their partners can't settle their relationship, there's a range of business and commercial factors.
The regulation issue is the least of their problems, but it is being used, ah, by some of the partners in the hope that they might get lenient treatment, even under legislation.
TICKY FULLERTON: Investors may despair about Telstra's growth strategy in areas like Foxtel, but one consolation is that Telstra is no fly-by-night investment.
We all need phones, and Telstra is a business spitting off $6 billion in cash a year.
PETER MORGAN: Telstra's a beautiful business.
I mean, you don't -- you don't employ, you know, the number of people that Telstra did, cut them as quickly as you can, without there being some great underlying business that is there, and there has been.
TICKY FULLERTON: Those who run Telstra can expect a grilling at the November AGM over failed investments and a flagging share price, and, no doubt, Ziggy Switkowski's salary increase, up from $1.65 million, to $2.3 million, including a bonus of over a million dollars.
BOB MANSFIELD: All I can tell you is the full entitlement was not received, um, and part of it was.
And again, on that, ah, scale of, ah, chief executive salaries, Ziggy's at the very low end of the spectrum.
And if you're going to run the best company, the biggest company in the country, and try and do it to the best of your capability, you need to have people who can do that and be rewarded for it.
TICKY FULLERTON: Some shareholders will even want a removal of the chief executive of the year.
In recent months, Telstra's share price has fluttered on rumours of possible replacements, like Coles Myer's John Fletcher, and Commonwealth Bank's David Murray.
In response, Telstra management is asking shareholders to be patient, and remember their reliable dividend of almost 4 per cent.
AD VOICE-OVER: We're making sure your numbers work hard for you.
TICKY FULLERTON: Board and management are on notice that the number that needs to work harder is the share price.
MATILDA PATON: With Telstra reporting record profits, I just don't understand why it's actually dropped so dramatically.
BOB MANSFIELD: I'm disappointed by that, everybody on the board is, everyone in management is, and as a shareholder myself I'm experiencing the same pain.
TICKY FULLERTON: Bob Mansfield has 109,000 shares in Telstra.
The telco of the year is better placed than most to ride out the slump in telecommunications.
As one guest commented on awards night, next year, half the other telco executives in the room could be out of a job.
So it would be no surprise to see Telstra walking off with the top award, once again.
But will Telstra shares be doing any better?
In privatising our biggest company, government encouraged an expectation of a sure-fire investment for two million shareholders.
It also imposed a new pressure and obligation on management, one on which they still have to deliver.


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General Motors Corp. Chief Executive Rick Wagoner addresses a joint press conference with leaders of three Japanese automakers, in Tokyo, Oct. 20, 2003. n the first five months of this 2005, GM investors have seen their shares tumble to the lowest price in more than a decade. They've seen the company's U.S. market share fall from 27 percent to 25.4 percent, its bond rating reduced to "junk" status and its losses top $1 billion in the first quarter. What they haven't seen, or heard, is a comprehensive plan to turn around the company's fortunes. And that's certainly what they'll hope to get Tuesday at GM's annual shareholders' meeting in Wilmington, Del. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)
YES INDEED! This is the trick to turn things around, for GM! They nearly made the tragic mistake instead of BUILDING A BETTER VEHICLE AND CHARGING LESS FOR IT! Whew! Can you imagine what that might have meant! Senior management would have had to admit that they'd been GREEDY and SHORTSIDED for the past three decades!
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- • Fortunes Rock Beach
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I hope someone recognizes this old novel. It might be Raiders from the Rings by Alan E Nourse, but I'm far from confident. The space people never have daughters, because of damage to their X chromosome. They get wives by kidnapping from Earth. (It's not clear, at least in my very dusty memory, whether they forcibly marry their captives; the women seem to adjust pretty well.) You'd think the problem would clear up in one generation, but no.
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What about asexual reproduction? There do exist one-gender species in real life that reproduce without another individual in various ways.
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This Trope is clearly sort of distinct from Singe-Gender World where The Other Wiki says Female examples are far more common, while here men are refereed to as the more common example.
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I propose we rename this trope back to Single Sex Species. as its main name. for two reasons 1. Added Alliterative Appeal 2. You Keep Using That Word Gender is not a b iol ogical term but a mindset or a behavior for example the Namekians are all Male not all Masculine see the difference?
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Spicy Stuffed Veal
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|1 Medium, sliced
|Uncooked regular rice
|1⁄2 Cup (8 tbs)
|Canned stewed tomatoes
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Lightly brown sausages in large heavy skillet.
Remove and drain on paper towels.
Cut veal into 4 pieces; wrap each piece around a sausage; fasten with wooden pick.
Roll in mixture of flour and 1 tsp salt.
Brown veal rolls on all sides in hot sausage fat in skillet.
Remove veal rolls; drain on paper towels.
Drain fat from skillet.
Add the remaining ingredients; mix well.
Add veal rolls.
Cover; simmer, stirring occasionally, about 40 min;, or until veal rolls and rice are tender and liquid has been absorbed.
Remove wooden picks from meat before serving.
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Serving size: Complete recipe
Calories 1673 Calories from Fat 587
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 66 g102.2%
Saturated Fat 22.9 g114.4%
Trans Fat 0 g
Cholesterol 384.1 mg128%
Sodium 4684.6 mg195.2%
Total Carbohydrates 158 g52.8%
Dietary Fiber 10.9 g43.8%
Sugars 37.4 g
Protein 113 g225.3%
Vitamin A 15.7% Vitamin C 85.1%
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Silver Oak Tree Surgery
Silver Oak Tree Surgery & Dry Stone walling has been established for over 10 years. We offer a wide variety of tree surgery and dry stone walling services, both domestic and commercial around the Sheffield, Peak District and North East Derbyshire areas. We provide bespoke services customised to your requirements. We love and take pride in our work, our aim is to provide you with the best possible service with the highest quality of work carried out by our experienced tree surgeons. We have tree surgery and walling contracts with some of the most the prestigious sports clubs, golf clubs, hotels, private homes and estate management projects in Sheffield and the Peak District. We have lots of reviews on Google business, silveroaktreesurgery,com, Derbyshire Trusted Trader and Chequer Trade, feel free to find what our customers think of our work.
Topspec Grounds and Garden Maintenance
Welch Landscape Design
Welch Design, now based in new offices in Lincoln, has been providing clients with landscapes they love for almost 20 years. The practice is registered with the Landscape Institute and governed by the professional code of ethics. Our major client list includes national house builders, hospitals, hospices, schools, residential care homes, corporates, developers, and private residential clients. We offer a full range of services including infrastructure landscape design, project management, landscape design, and landscape maintenance and management. Please email us at email@example.com to find out more, or for an informal chat about your requirements call us on 01522 567484.
S&L SurfacingCertificate of Excellence 2015
S &L Surfacing undertake a great variety of trades including, Tarmac , patios block paving , fencing , concreting , landscaping and many more . We undertake all our works with the same professional integrity.
GB Paving & Driveways
PMB Landscaping Ltd
PMB Landscaping are an award winning landscaping company. We offer a complete service from design to build to planting and if you require on going maintenance. We pride ourselves on providing the very best service, and quality in the construction. Peter Broadbent the director of the company has 18yrs experience in landscaping from tiny court yard gardens to country estates, he's been very fortunate with his work and was part of a team that won gold and best in show at Hampton Court RHS show, Silver at Malvern three counties RHS spring garden show, and gold and best in show at Tatton park RHS show.
DHPCertificate of Excellence 2015
We are a small family run building company who undertake both large and small jobs from a leaking tap through to a new build house and everything in between. Every job no matter how large or small is given the same priority and each and every home is treated with the utmost respect.
D S Gardens
Handitec Home and Garden CareCertificate of Excellence 2015
At Handitec, our handyman service not only finishes off those jobs that just get left but can also cope with the more complex project, so whether a shelf or blind needs hanging or a tap washer replacing I will be only too happy to help. Hanging blinds/pictures/curtains/shelves - Finishing off kitchens & bathrooms - Clearing guttering - Pointing - Brickwork - BBQ's Erecting flatpacks - Gardening - Replacing locks/handles Painting & Decorating - Small plumbing jobs- Joinery - Skirting Boards, Wall & Floor Tiling - Grouting - Laminate & Wood Flooring - Replacment doors/windows/locks/handles hinges/letter plates/glass units, extensions - Guttering Renewal or Clearance - Roofing - Pointing - Brickwork Block Paving - Patios - Painting & Decorating - Stud Work - Plastering - Plumbing - Joinery - Electrical Works - Wall & Floor Tiling - Grouting - Laminate & Wooden Flooring - And Much More All aspects of landscape gardening work is under taken all year round. Including:- Patios, decking, slabbing, block paving, turfing, wooden/concrete fencing, planting, driveways, water features, trellis work, pegolas, gravelling, shed erection, paint spraying and much more.
Paving Traders Ltd
For three generations we have operated as a family-run business specialising in the supply of quality paving and landscape materials to customers throughout the UK. 1, Price Match Promise 2, Free Delivery A Family Business 3, Ethical Production 4, Huge Variety of Indian Stone Paving & building material
TR Landscape Contracting
TR Landscape Contracting carry out Commercial and Domestic Landscaping and Grounds Maintenance. Landscaping work includes Tree & Shrub Planting, Fencing, Turfing and Seeding. We supply and install Artificial Grass. Maintenance work undertaken includes Grass Cutting, Hedge Cutting, Pruning and Shaping planted areas. Our trained & qualified staff carry out weed control work including regular spraying and control treatment programmes to Invasive Weeds such as Japanese Knotweed. We are an accredited installer of Wildflower Turf products. TR Landscape Contracting are an accredited member of The Association of Professional Landscapers.
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Deckbuilders UK Ltd
We design and construct beautiful timber and composite decking on any scale or difficulty. Our CAD 3d design process means clients can see their project in detail before any construction takes place, ensuring any amendments are made before the drawings and contract are signed. Our timbers are guaranteed for 15 years against rot and infestation and all timbers are machined and treated at our head office ensuring only high quality timber is used. Deckbuilders are leading members of the Timber Decking and Cladding Association. For a design consultation please call 0845 370 7790, or visit our website at www.deckbuilderltd.co.uk
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