Split decision: Telstra's carve-up plan comes 23 years too late for competition and customers
- Written by Leon Gettler, PhD Candidate, RMIT University
Telstra’s plan to split into three entities is the most radical shake-up of Australia’s largest telecommunications company since the Howard government began privatising it in 1997.
But as David Hetherington, a senior fellow at progressive think tank Per Capita, has suggested, it comes 23 years too late.
In privatising a public monopoly...