Global operator strategies - 11/04/07

Indonesia is re-forging its plan to develop telecom services in all rural areas, in spite of a relative failure in the previous plan (only 16% of the forecast fund were collected, and 59% of Indonesian villages currently have no access to telecom services).

Google is testing its new speech-recognition technology with a voice search service.

Italy' s Communications Minister is planning to introduce a law that would give more powers to the Italian telecom regulatory commission, the AGCOM. In sight, of course, is to protect the network from foreign hands, but the government will not (directly) interfere in Pirelli talks.

Taiwan's Chunghwa Telecom has bought a 21% stake in local digital content provider Elta Technology.