The federal government has approached Telstra and other commercial businesses to sound out their interest in potentially taking an ownership stake in the Pacific operations of a telecommunications business to block China from buying the assets.
The national security committee of cabinet has been considering the implications of Digicel, including its Papua New Guinea assets, potentially being sold to a Chinese entity.
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