[LINK] potential Telstra breakup

[Jan Whitaker]

At 08:39 PM 3/10/2007, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> > 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?

Other linkers may have better information. The first divestiture was 
competition for long distance, local loop services, and the allowance 
of people and organisations to own their own infrastructure and 
connect to the PTSN. My college system was the largest telephone 
operator in the state at one time -- running internal comms on an 
owned/licensed microwave network. But that's history. I believe 
what's happening now is re-aggregation in some areas -- buyouts, etc. 
But that's about all I know. The pendulum is swinging back. But there 
won't be a single monopoly again.

Jan


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