Telstra reportedly turfs CTO Nandlall

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blog Things haven’t been precisely going well for Telstra recently. The telco has suffered a number of outages with its mobile network over the past several months, and over the past several weeks has added issues with its ADSL and NBN services to that list. And late last week, things got even worse. The Australian reports that the big T has turfed its chief technology officer. The newspaper reports (we recommend you click here for the full article) that Vish Nandlall left under “less than favourable circumstances”.

CRN has published an alternative view from Nandlall personally. In the article, the departing Telstra CTO states:

“The terms under which I am leaving Telstra are private. I am returning to North America for personal reasons. Regarding the reported allegations, my CV is available through LinkedIn and is verifiably accurate.”

I’m not sure what has precisely happened here, but it appears that there is more than one side to this story. While there may have been some irregularities with regard to Nandlall personally, it also appears that Telstra is scrapping the CTO role from its executive line-up. This isn’t a surprise, given that the role has always been a bit nebulous. I’d encourage readers to keep an open mind as to what is going on here.

Image credit: Telstra

10 COMMENTS

  1. To call Telstra outages as a once off is a bit naive. It goes down all the time. I had no HFC for 3 days a couple of months ago. They treat you with contempt. They dont notify there is a problem and you are required to keep calling back. I couldnt get any work done and spent the whole time mucking around with the connection. That is life under faulty Liberal copper. Good for productivity I believe.

  2. Maybe he could offer suggestions to help some NBN employees to polish up their CVs in case they need to do a runner or find a size nine in their backside after July 2nd.

  3. It’s sad that Telstra, after all that Theody had managed to do while at the company, seems to be falling apart since he left.

    I’m not sure what has precisely happened here, but it appears that there is more than one side to this story.

    Do you think he’s a scapegoat Renai?

  4. Telstra Operations is now full of people with BS qualifications and experiences, mostly are from third world countries who have no idea how to do their job.
    Speak pidgin english or have a degree from some backwater country, then come on down and work for Telstra!
    I have to deal with their idiotic and incompetent Network Construction staff almost every day! The network outages are of no surprise to me.

    • Too true, there are less than half a dozen experienced operators left, the rest have been off shored or are pretty useless.

  5. Telstra headquarters in Melbourne is like being in Bombay. Hindi is spoken openly in levels and in the lifts. Telstra has outsourced a lot of core operations overseas or hired the cheapest possible 457 workers.

    The mistakes are slowly being realised but a few years worth of customer satisfaction improvements and brand perception has vanished. Provisioning times for certain services has gone from a matter of days when it used to be handled by experienced Australian workers to multiple months now that is it done in a certain country to the North-West…

    Get rid of Penn and bring in someone who can run a premium operation that Australians want. Tell them not to get caught up in gay marriage campaigns and pissing off the Catholic Church too.

  6. Tell them not to get caught up in gay marriage campaigns and pissing off the Catholic Church too.

    I couldn’t give two figs about that (more power to them), I just want decent service, and that definitely seems to be sliding since David left…

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