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Split decision: Telstra's carve-up plan comes 23 years too late for competition and customers

  • Written by Leon Gettler, PhD Candidate, RMIT University
Contractors roll out the NBN network in Sydney in July 2017.

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...

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