[LINK] Telstra/Fairfax

[Deus Ex Machina]

Tim Lister [tal at pacific.net.au] wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 12:54, r.polanskis at uws.edu.au wrote:
> > On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Roger Clarke wrote:
> > 
> > > Make that:
> > >
> > > -   a 100% publicly-owned provider of network infrastructure and
> > >      wholesaler of low-level services
> > >
> > > -   a 100% privately-owned provider of retail services (whether
> > >      connectivity and/or content would be that company's choice),
> > >      which has no links whatsoever with the infrastructure company,
> > >      and which is forced to compete on a level playing-field with
> > >      every other such corporation (i.e. with limits on the scale
> > >      advantages it is able to extract, e.g. through bulk-purchase
> > >      of bandwidth)
> > 
> > This is the model I like the most.  Why is it the most unpopular and
> > the one least touted by politicans and "experts" in business and
> > economics?    Every other model is a doctrinaire "all or nothing"
> > approach that doesn't offer the best compromises.   I would gladly buy
> > shares in a "Telstra services" company, with the assurance that our
> > infrastructure remains in the hands of the public.
> 
> because the real money in selling Telstra is the value of the backbone
> services, which deliver monopoly control to the people who own it.
> 
> the retail services section is just a pile of over-hyped bum-fluff, not
> worth a brass razoo, that wouldn't sell.

NDC didnt sell

Vic