Sol plays with fire, earth scorches
This time last year, Phil Burgess was informed journalists, as he planned to do its job as the new Telstra’s Head of Public Policy and communication technology.Entertainment the USA, he appointed a model for its relations with the federal government.
“Qantas struggles and victories and people from which alone,” he said.It was an understandable choice. Telstra and Qantas have much in common: both are former Utilities now the government vis-à-vis the shareholders, both have large consumer businesses, on the basis of strong brands, and both were forced by Government policy compete with new competitors.
A year from Burgess and his chief Sol Trujillo can only dream of copying the success of Qantas pleasure in Canberra, as attested by the government in February decision on the closure of the Singapore Airlines, Trans-Pacific Road.
This is the kind of outcome Telstra was looking Trujillo and Burgess unashamedly attack on an aggressive strategy of the abuse of government and the regulatory authority of the competition.The benefits for shareholders of the conviction of the government to offer some protection competitors can not be doubted. But the method the two Americans have chosen to do is achieve the real objective is less and less companies are seeking to understand how the time goes further.
It is open to the value of competition policy, voter-friendly to promote lower prices and improved services for consumers.
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