Telstra is ramping up the rhetoric to ward off the threat of structural separation, and the CCC has seized on ACCC comments to a Senate committee to claim that operational separation is not working. Telstra chairman Donald McGauchie was reported on Telstra's Nowwearetalking web site, in an address to a CEDA lunch, saying: "Anyone who bothers to take even a cursory glance will see that around the world structural separation has only led to increased costs, less investment, less innovation and bad outcomes for consumers...It is now time for the Government to once and for all bury this flawed nonsense and take structural separation off the table...I have made it absolutely clear that if the Government were to go down this path then we would walk away from the NBN and invest the money elsewhere."
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