Half-yearly results meeting the ideal platform for a separation announcement given current lack of public debate and delays in introducing the Separation Bill, says telco analyst Paul Budde
The eerie quiet that has descended over the once very public stoush between the Federal Government and Telstra (ASX:TLS) could be the clearest indication yet that a deal on the separation of the telco is close at hand.
Many benefits in functional, rather than structural separation, says BT’s functionally separated backhaul and access division
The British experience of telecommunications separation strongly points to functional, rather than structural separation as the preferred option, according to Mark Shurmer, director of regulatory affairs, Openreach BT.
Five years minimum to separate and the company's $12 billion IT transformation would be pulled apart
The functional separation of Telstra will cost the company between $500m and $1.2 billion and take a minimum of five years to carry out Telstra’s Chairman Catherine Livingstone has said.
Telcos throw weight behind Government's Telstra break up bill
A group of telecommunications companies have urged federal politicians to pass legislative reforms that would lead to a break up of Telstra business.
CCC says separation bill delays won't wash, ATUG says it will support the bill only if negotiations for a neffective, sustainable structural separation fall through
Calls to delay the passage of legislation to structurally separate Telstra “simply do not wash” according to the executive director of the Competitive Carriers Coalition (CCC), David Forman.
The NBN, like the iPhone, will spur an applications boom, says communications minister Stephen Conroy
The National Broadband Network will provide an iPhone-like boom in online applications and services when complete, Federal Communications Minister, Stephen Conroy, has said.
Optus calls for greater ACCC powers, Telstra separation
Telstra has acknowledged wider telecommunications industry concerns about the need for greater equivalence and transparency in its submission to the National Broadband Network: Regulatory Reform for 21st Century Broadband discussion paper.
Govt won't pre-empt discussion
Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has poured cold water on media reports that Telstra will be handed a 49 per cent stake in the National Broadband Network Company (NBN Co) if it cleaves off its wholesale arm.
Too late to fix T3 mistake
Australia has missed its chance to split Telstra should it win the National Broadband Network (NBN), according to former finance boss, turned shadow communications minister Nick Minchin.
Telco’s new public policy director continues Burgo’s bargy, hits back at separationists, federal opposition.
Telstra responded swiftly to the Shadow Communications Minister’s call for structural separation of the National Broadband Network builder, calling Bruce Billson’s comments “totally irresponsible” in a statement released yesterday afternoon.
