The satellite will support telecommunications and broadcasts in Asia.
That will help telecommunications companies in the future, but their most immediate task is finding alternatives for delivering their customers' information until the undersea cables can be repaired.
Nielsen will gain telecommunications companies as customers with the deal, but Mr. Gorham said companies like AT&T and Verizon "instead of calling themselves phone companies, they will very quickly call themselves media companies".
It will emphasize telecommunications, and programs there will start well in advance of the building's formal opening, said Yacov Shamash, the dean of the university's engineering and business programs.
The deal appears likely to secure the passage of the federal government's data retention scheme – with the support of Labor – that will force telecommunications companies to store certain types of phone and web data for two years.
William M. Daley, president of SBC Communications, said: "Today's court action is a victory for consumers, and should help this industry move forward in developing healthy, sustainable and economically rational competition that will extend telecommunications innovations further and faster in the marketplace.
The Americans have just mastered the art of 'docking' two spacecraft, and even as we hum Lara's Theme, Early Bird, a satellite that will revolutionise telecommunications is being slung into orbit.
According to local reports, the Ministry of Transport and Communications in Helsinki has pushed through a law that will force telecommunications providers to offer high speed internet connections to all of the country's 5.3 million citizens.
While in this science phase, the orbiter will provide telecommunications support for Phoenix spacecraft launched to Mars in 2007.
The I-5s are high-throughput satellites that will provide telecommunications "on the go" in remote locations.
