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Splitting Telstra: a valuable idea waiting for its day.
Australasian Business Intelligence, October, 2006
Byline: Alan Kohler
Oct 24, 2006 (The Sydney Morning Herald - ABIX via COMTEX) -- A demerger strategy would both bring risks and offer genuine opportunities to Australian telco Telstra. It is currently unique among the globe's industry leaders in remaining a fully integrated business, which even has some media assets in the shape of its stake in pay TV provider Foxtel. The Australian Government, until now the majority owner, has in the past considered, and received advice from investment banks on, a split into an infrastructure and a retail entity. However, it did not want to forgo any share price gains and therefore made the company shelve such plans in the lead-up to the full and final privatization. It is unclear whether the Telstra board will keep to...
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