[LINK] potential Telstra breakup

[Adrian Chadd]

On Wed, Oct 03, 2007, 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.

Whats happening to the baby bells now?

What could be learnt from it?



Adrian