Report: Structural separation and investment in the National Broadband Network environment
Updated Report (June 26, 2008): Following his trip to Australia Dr Chris Doyle has revised his paper to give better regard to the specific competition issues in Australia with the migration to the NBN. View revised report.
Initial Report (June 18, 2008): In this report, Dr Chris Doyle from the University of Warwick 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.
The British regulatory expert concluded that at the very least the government should force the telco to undergo "functional separation"
View the report. | 
