Telstra are like our very own Microsoft: they would like all telecommunications in Au to go through them. POTS, mobile (cell) phones, long distance, international, Internet of all kinds, cable TV and I'm sure there are other markets they'd like. They'd also like the Federal Government to sell the remaining 51% of ownership so they can get on with making obscene amounts of money like any other large corporation.

Unfortunately, rational voices who say Telstra needs to be broken up so the underperforming parts have to reform or fail are not being listened to. As it happens, politics are keeping the sale from happening for entirely different reasons. :-/

Wade.