1) Which of the following is not necessarily one of the benefits of ¡§USO¡¨?
A) Service quality improvement
B) Social equity
C) Economic efficiency
D) Crime reduction.

2) Which of the following may not fall within the scope of ¡§USO¡¨?
A) Plain old telephone services
B) Internet / broadband access
C) All telecommunication services
D) Public Pay-phone box.

3) Which of the following is not the reason for Universal Service Costing?
A) To raise operational budgets for operators or governments
B) To ascertain whether compensation is required, and if so, at what level to a high degree of shared and common cost in telecommunications network operation
C) To assess if USO constitutes a competitive burden
D) To assess if a universal service fund is required to compensate the universal service operator.

4) Which of the following is part of the relevant cost of universal service under the new external service regulatory environment in HK?
A) Roll-out of broadband networks
B) Call set-up, switching, and transmission costs
C) Research and development in value-add services, e.g. voice mail, caller-ID, short message etc.
D) Amortization of license fee

5) According to Oftel, the UK regulator, which of the following is not considered a benefit of being the universal service operator?
A) Marketing and brand recognition
B) Minimization of planning cost
C) Additional revenue and profit streams
D) Avoidance of the costs of disconnection.

6) What is the major change when Hong Kong shifted from ADC to USC?
A) To ensure universal service operators are profitable
B) Basically the same, only the wordings adopted between UK and HK are different
C) To open up competition in Local Fixed Network Telephone service
D) To shift the base of universal service compensation from deficit in providing access to the net cost of serving uneconomic customers.

7) The ¡§Digital Divide¡¨ basically means:
A) The generation gap due to high-technology development
B) The surplus generated between hi-tech and low-tech economies
C) The gap between those who have and don¡¦t have access to information technology
D) The difference in quality of services (QoS) between digital and non-digital telecom services.

8) Which of the following is not part of the decision making process when considering a claim for USO status?
A) Is the service economically justifiable
B) Will the US operator be loosing money of such service is being provided
C) Is the service essential and of significant social importance
D) Will the service have positive impact on digital divide?