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Article: ACCC CHAIRMAN SAYS HE HAS NEVER SEEN TELSTRA SPLIT ON GOVT RADAR.
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- AsiaPulse News
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- October 8, 2007
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MELBOURNE, Oct 8 Asia Pulse - Competition watchdog chairman Graeme Samuel says he has never seen the structural separation of Telstra (ASX:TLS) on the federal government's agenda.
But Mr Samuel, who heads the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), said Telstra could become structurally separated if it did not win a federal government contract to build a fibre-to-the-node (FTTN) broadband network - even if such a separation was not forced upon it by government.
Structural separation could divide Telstra into separate retail, wholesale and network companies to provide open access to the network for competitors.
"I've never seen ...