Fixed operator strategies - 06/06/07

VSNL (India) will provide WiMAX in five Indian cities by April next year.

Telstra, with G9 consortium (led by Optus) on its heels, plans to start its high-speed broadband network worth $4bn and to charge other telecom companies for using its new network.

Submarine systems in Africa: several new fibre-optics mega-projects coming-up in Africa to complement the SAT-3 network and replace VSATs: four projects in East Africa to connect 22 eastern, southern and central African nations, and the West African Festoon System (WAFS), which will connect the African nations along the west coast from Nigeria to Namibia.

China has launched the SinoSat-3 communications satellite.

Jersey Telecom will trial DVB-SH mobile TV with ALU as technology partner.

Comcast (US) is trailing switched digital video (SDV) with C-Cor, Harmonic, Motorola and Scientific-Atlanta.