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Category: 

Telecommunications

Date: 

1997-10-02 20:52:38

Subject: 

Australian Telco Is $500 Million Overbudget

  Link:

http://www.theage.com.au/daily/970930/bus/bus4.html

Comment: 

This is also an embedded chip story. Telstra is having to spend $500 million extra, on top of $100m. A public sale of one-third of the company forced the firm to admit this. The government is selling one-third of its stake in the company.

This appeared in THE AGE (Sept. 30).

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Telstra's initial $100 million budget to beat a microchip flaw that could send its computers crashing in the first seconds of the new millenium has blown out by $500 million.

Telstra's offer document for the public sale of one-third of the group disclosed yesterday that the company had put aside a further $500 million to solve the problem, which is known by names including the Millenium Bug and the Year 2000 Bug. . . .

A year ago Telstra hired Hitachi Data Systems, a multi-billion-dollar international software development and consulting group, to oversee its Year 2000 computer revamp.

The original contract to cleanse all Telstra's microchips was estimated to be worth between $100 million and $140 million.

Link: 

http://www.theage.com.au/daily/970930/bus/bus4.html

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