All-Australian Telstra: Asian telecoms

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Australia's state-owned telecommunications firm, Telstra, is off to a rocky start in its campaign at independence, with many of its foreign investments falling to the vagaries of international politics. Telstra's investments in Cambodia's telecommunications industry is uncertain after the mid-1997 coup. The Australian government is planning to sell one-third of its stake in amounting to $7.5 bil. At the same time, Telstra is trying to recoup its losses in the Foxtel cable television venture it entered with NewsCorp. Telstra plans to merge Foxtel with Australis, a satellite pay-TV service.

Cable Networks, Cable and other pay TV services, Cable TV Entertainment Networks, Australia, Foreign operations, Mergers, acquisitions and divestments, Cable television broadcasting industry, Cable networks (Television), Telstra Corporation Ltd., Entertainment networks (Television), Foxtel

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Unity in diversity

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Researchers from Lucent Technologies' Bell Laboratories have found that the brittlestar has one eye made up of thousands of parts. The brittlestar, which is related to sea urchins and starfish, seems to have a 'compound eye' made up of lens-like crystals on the brittlestar's external skeleton.

Research, Physiological aspects, Lucent Technologies Inc., Ophiuroidea, Brittle stars, Compound eye

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The short arm of the law: pity the telecoms regulator

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Regulation in the telecommunications industry must be well designed to ensure healthy competition between companies. The most formidable regulatory issues concern licensing new services and interconnection. Effective regulation is particularly difficult for poor countries to attain.

Analysis, Laws, regulations and rules, Industry regulations, Government regulation of business, Trade regulation

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