End of the line: Telstra's day of reckoning has arrived

By John McDuling, Lucy Battersby
Updated August 19 2017 - 8:08am, first published 8:02am
 Telstra CEO Andy Penn announcing the full year results
Photo Pat Scala , Melbourne , AFR
Thursday the 17th of August 2017 .
Telstra CEO Andy Penn announcing the full year results Photo Pat Scala , Melbourne , AFR Thursday the 17th of August 2017 .

This was the week Andy Penn finally confronted a bitter reality. Penn is a little more than two years into one of the biggest jobs in corporate Australia and insists his vision for Telstra - to become a world-class technology company - remains intact.