The departure of Sol Trujillo from Telstra will pave the way for structural separation of the carrier and the NBN is dead in the water says the Australian boss of Telecom NZ's giant services subsidiary Gen-i. What's more, regulation will continue to play a big role in the newly separated Telstra.

Telstra has announced the departure of CEO Sol Trujillo on 30 June saying it expects to have his replacement in place by that time.

Greg Winn will leave his job as Telstra's COO at the end of January to return home to the US. The COO role will lapse on his departure.

An organisation representing a range of Australian carriers and ISPs has railed against Telstra CEO Sol Trujillo's "unsolicited advice" to the incoming Barack Obama administration that it should put part of an economic stimulus package towards improving fixed and wireless broadband in the US.

Late last week, an article carrying Telstra CEO Sol Trujillo's byline ran in the US periodical BusinessWeek. Reader reactions have been as interesting as the article itself.

There's long been a suspicion that Telstra deliberately holds back from delivering newer technology to its customers. Now CEO Sol Trujilo has confirmed it.

Statements made yesterday by Telstra CEO Sol Trujilo suggest the company could sacrifice swathes of its copper network to stave off competition from the successful National Broadband Network.

Although 3D TV has been demonstrated over several years at technology trade shows, for gaming, advertising, television, movies and more, Telstra claims it’s first to commercially install the technology at its “Executive Briefing Centre” in Melbourne, Australia.

The Tell The Truth Telstra (T4) campaigners have seized on the results of the Readers Digest annual "Australia's Most Trusted People" list to claim it found that "Australian’s rate Sol Trujillo, CEO of Telstra, amongst the least trustworthy people in the country." That is hardly telling the truth.