[LINK] potential Telstra breakup

[Matthew Sullivan]

Jan Whitaker wrote:
> 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.

As they should have done with Microsoft a long time ago.  Shame they 
seem to be able to buy their way out of that.

/ Mat