Fixed operator strategies - 18/11/06

Suntel (Sri Lanka) plans to invest $33m in 2007 to expand its network.

TPSA (Poland) plans launching fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) service trial at the end of this month. TPSA is affiliate to FT.

VTR and Telmex Chile were granted Wireless Local Loop (WLL) licenses. Networks will be built in about one year from now.

In Mexico, the SCT telecom ministry has awarded state power company CFE a license to operate a public telecoms network over its electrical infrastructure.

Towerstream is deploying a pre-WiMAX network in Chicago.

While head-to-head rivals, Verizon and Cablevision's Rainbow Media have announced a multi-year alliance to to distribute Rainbow's movie, sports, music, and video-on-demand (VOD) programming networks.