B211 Self-Test Week 2

Current Affairs Self-Test - Week 2

The following are excerpts from newpaper articles. Read the excerpts and answer the question below each excerpt.

Excerpt:
TELSTRA will spend up to $900 million reaching its target of one million broadband customers by 2005 - but was cagey on the future of pricing.
At a briefing in Sydney today, chief executive Ziggy Switskowki and retail director Ted Pretty spoke about the progress of the telco's broadband strategy so far, and plans for boosting subscription.

Which broadband technology is Telstra principally pushing to reach its target above?

Excerpt:
SPECULATION is growing that OzEmail will soon be up for sale as its US parent ________ files for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
OzEmail, Australia's second-largest ISP with 600,000 subscribers, was bought by ________ in 1998 for $520 million from co-founders Sean Howard, Malcolm Turnbull and Trevor Kennedy.
_________ filed for bankruptcy yesterday, four weeks after it revealed that it had misreported some $US3.85 billion ($6.9 billion). The company also has debts of about $US30 billion.

Who is OzEmail's parent company?

Excerpt:
FRANCE Telecom subsidiary GlobeCast has acquired local player MediaSat, forming the largest satellite transmission service company in Australia.
Both companies offered satellite transmission of live sporting and news events for free-to-air and pay television stations. .

Neither GlobeCast nor MediaSat have satellites of their own. From where do the new company get their transmission capacity?

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