So long, Sol

摘要

Once a byword for state-run inefficiency, Telstra is now famous instead for corporate belligerence and executive arrogance. For many years the Australian tele-coms giant, under its American chief executive, Sol Trujillo, was at war with regulators and successive federal governments over its plans for a high-speed broadband network. The resulting conflict resulted in grievous self-inflicted harm, not least feet peppered with buckshot.