STRUCTURAL SEPARATION AND INVESTMENT IN THE NATIONAL BROADBAND NETWORK ENVIRONMENT

Download transcript: 08.06.18 Dr Chris DOYLE report Dr Chris Doyle is from Warwick University in the UK and is an international expert on structural separation of telecommunication. In this report, Dr Doyle explains that "structural separation" means that Telstra's network would be owned separately from its other business divisions such as retail. The key advantage "is that it removes the incentives for the owner of the network to behave in a discriminatory manner." It also "greatly reduces the job of regulating." Dr Doyle explains that there are a range of 'separation' models, from the weakest form, accounting separation, to the strongest form, structural separation.