Arthur D. Little advised a leading telecom operator in Czech Republic on the world’s first voluntary structural separation into a service and a network company Challenge The incumbent integrated telecom operator was considering separating itself into a network company (holding all the infrastructure assets) and a commercial company to: 1. streamline its business 2. separate regulatory constraints into one entity 3. obtain better financing/valuation. The fixed & mobile network would be carved out into the netco, while the rest of the entity would be a commercial company selling retail and B2B services (comco) Approach Arthur D. Little first conducted a benchmark study on network carve-outs, based on similar separations performed in various international markets ?. Selected carve-out strateg

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