Fixed operator strategies - 10/9/05

NY3G Partnership, a Broadband Radio Services (BRS) spectrum licensee in New York City, will trial WiMAX in Manhattan in early 2006. Adaptix will provide its all-IP Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) wireless mobile broadband access technology.

BSNL (India) has announced a €92m plan to upgrade and expand its broadband capability.

Equant formed a strategic partnership with Avaya for IP communications and related applications.

France Telecom is trialing VDSL2 at 100Mbit/s.

KT, the South Korea largest broadband and fixed service provider with 21m fixed lines and 12m broadband users, plans $10bn network development project by 2010.