[LINK] potential Telstra breakup

[Jan Whitaker]

At 02:16 PM 3/10/2007, David Lochrin wrote:
>   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.

The US did it in the early 1980s. It's called divestiture. Sol should 
have some memory of it. They broke up Bell Telephone into regional 
companies. It was too big for its britches.


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