Fixed operator strategies - 15/04/06

Sprint Nextel announced plans to form a cable venture to market cable TV and mobile phone services. Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Cox Communications are among the first participants in the venture.

Time Warner could consider selling its AOL Europe ISP entity.

Brazil could adopt Japan' s digital TV standard, with some technical adjustments.

TiVo and DirecTV have extended their current partnership for another 3-year period.

iPASS has crossed 50,000 hotspots mark in its aggregated network.

The Carphone Warehouse (UK) has open a price war in the UK with its new offer of bundled voice and free broadband package.

Chunghwa Telecom (Taiwan) could spend $4.2bn to build a NG converged telecom network starting next year. Siemens, Nortel and Lucent were contracted.

Casema (NL) could be for sale.