[LINK] potential Telstra breakup

[David Lochrin]

On Wednesday 03 October 2007 11:52, Roger Clarke wrote:
> I left out the second part.
>
> Having gifted public infrastructure to a corporation, if the
> government wants to take it back again, it is required by law to pay
> just compensation.
>
> The case will fund silks' yachts, wineries and alpaca-farms for many
> years to come.

   Precisely....   But the government of the day might be able to force the company to restructure its operations into a wholesale infrastructure unit and a retail unit while still keeping the ownership, as I suggested earlier.

   It would be nice if the infrastructure rules included some regarding compatibility with standards and inter-working with other infrastructure providers too.

David