goodguy

Interesting…

I’ve always thought Chorus should be split off - particularly once the Government announced no player with a retail arm could hold a majority stake in any of the Crown Fibre stuff.  Even before that I thought the investors and management skillset for a network asset management business very different from those for a retail telco business.

Reading between various lines, I suspect Gattung believed this too - I strongly suspect she pushed for full separation when the Govt was regulating, but Reynolds obviously convinced the Board during his job interview that he could happily create another Openreach that wouldn’t need it.  I don’t know that it’s fair to say that Gattung had it right, as it’s really only been proven since Crown Fibre became a reality.