Global operator strategies - 06/12/06

Chunghwa Telecom (Taiwan) plans investing in China's 3G mobile and broadband services.

Telmex (Mexico) is interested buying two Colombian cable companies: 100% of TV Cable SA and 97.5% of Cable Pacifico SA .

Comstar (Russia) will buy 51% stake in Hellas On Line (Greece) for €48m.

In order to break the 50-50 Republican-Democrat impasse on the ATT-Bellsouth merger file, FCC 's chairman K. Martin wants to pull excused GOP commissioner Robert M. McDowell into the merger approval vote. It is seen as a good news for ATT.

France Telecom has bought a 54% stake in Groupe Silicomp, a machine to machine communications company. The acquisition is in line with Orange Business Service’s strategy of concentrating on network communication services – and in particular M2M.

OTE (Greece) postpones the Romtelecom IPO.