Name: Nguyen Tran Que Tram

ID Student: K184040397
Class: 192EN0405

TEXTBANK UNIT 12

Taking on competitors
1.
1. c
2. e
3. b
4. f
5. f
6. d
7. a
2.
a. True
b. True
c. True
d. False
e. False
f. False
3.
a. No, the joint venture will inherit Carphone’s stores.
b. No, the Carphone Warehouse brand will continue to operate under the
Carphone brand
c. Carphone Warehouse will extend this activity by stocking laptops in all
of its 2,400 stores
d. Best Buy have entered into a joint venture because they want to open up a
new avenue of growth
e. Best Buy in investing £ 1.1bn and this will give them a 50-per-cent share
in the joint venture
f. Best Buy and Carphone have announced a tie-up in the form of a joint
venture
g. Carphone Warehouse made a successful entry in the PC market last year
h. Best Buy plans to open stores in Mexico and Turkey, but has none at the
moment.
4. f, e, d, h, g, c, a, b
5.
a. rapidly
b. meaningful
c. dodge
d. acknowledge
e. counterpart
f. format
 g. launchpad
h. incentive
i. roll-out
6.
a. roaming
b. keener
c. tangible aspects
d. complicated
e. lie at the heart of
f. tech stress
7. a, b and e

Breaking up monopolies
1.
a. Cemex
b. No names given
c. Comex
d. Telcel
e. Telmex
f. No names given
g. TV Azteca, Televisa
2.
a. False
b. True
c. False
d. False
e. False
f. True
3.
a. distortions
b. privatise
c. competition
d. consideration
e. behave
f. operate
4.
a. behavior
b. operation
c. privatisation
d. consideration
e. distortions
f. competition
5.
a. privatisation
b. competition
c. consideration
 d. companies’ behavior and operations
e. distortions
6.
a. afterthought
b. improvement
c. weakness
d. the public interest
e. academics
f. regulations
g. regulators
h. observers
i. sectors
j. the regulated
7.
Being able to compare products from different banks more easily and being
able to take your phone number from one network to another