On Oct 13, 8:57 am, "Rod Speed" <rod.speed....@gmail.com> wrote:
> William Tin...@tm.net.my wrote
>
> > If that is true, surely it must be a crimminal offence.
>
> Thats arguable, particularly if his association
> with that other yank was made clear to Telstra.
>
> > Time to act Police?
>
> The cops wont get involved unless he concealed his association
> with that other yank from telstra and even then thats unlikely.
>
> Rod Speed <rod.speed....@gmail.com> wrote
>
>
>
> >> Kwyjibo <kwyj...@ozdebate.remove.com> wrote:
>
> >>> With all the bullshit we have been hearing from the Mex regarding
> >>> the lack of transparency of the recent government tender, you'd
> >>> think the little fuckwit would keep his own house in order, right?
> >>> Apparently not.......
>
> >>>http://www.australianit.news.com.au/...150-5013040,00...
>
> >>> "Telstra has handed its US mobile phone distributor Brightstar a
> >>> multi-million-dollar windfall by paying it as much as three times
> >>> the industry rate to provide handsets to its branded and third-party
> >>> retailers as part of a deal worth $1 billion a year.
>
> >>> Telstra is paying Brightstar, whose owner Marcelo Claure is a
> >>> *business partner of Telstra chief executive Sol Trujillo*, between
> >>> $17 and $21 per handset, the contract shows.
>
> >>> The going rate for handsets is about one-third of Brightstar's
> >>> contracted rate......
>
> >>> In September 2005 The Australian revealed that Telstra was in talks
> >>> with Brightstar for the first of two deals the US company would sign
> >>> with Telstra in 2005 and 2006.
>
> >>> The first, handed to Brightstar *with no tender*, was for an
> >>> exclusive arrangement to source at least 2 million handsets each
> >>> year for Telstra. "
>
> >>> Fuck him off back to the US.
>
> >> They wont have him back. Better to ship him off to jail instead.
> >> That way his bonuses can be stripped away.- Hide quoted text -
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> - Show quoted text -

If Sol is a business partner of the Brightstar boss, i like to know
the particulars of that business arrangement. I believe Brightstar
handset have a the worst reputation for reliability of any in
Telstra's stable. It's quite probable Brightstar units are being
returned by customers more than any other supplier.