In brief: Toyota investments; CalEnergy drills gas ; Alcatel broadband; VoIP

Akira Imai, vice president of marketing for Toyota Motor Europe (TME) believes Poland is one of the best markets in Europe, and within 4 to 5 years could be more attractive than Spain. Thus TME is planning a transmission production plant to be open by 2002 in Walbrzych. (Rzeczpospolita, p B3)... CalEnergy Polska has begun explorations for natural gas deposits in the 9,000 square kilometer area in the area of northeastern Poland where it has a license to drill. (Rzeczpospolita, p.B2)... The Polish-German firm Pfaffenhain PL has begun construction of zl.4 million locks production plant in the Krakow Special Economic Zone (KSSE). Production begins next May, with output expected to supply the domestic and Central European markets (Rzeczpospolita, p.B2)... Alcatel Polska has signed a euro 3.1 million deal with Tel-Energo to build a broadband network for high speed data transmission across Poland. Tel-Energo hopes to use the network to expand its Internet and video transmission services to subscribers. (Puls Biznesu, p.7)...Rzeczpospolita has learned that the Telecommunications Ministry is about to classify Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) as data and not voice transmission, thus scrapping the monopoly of Telekomunikacja Polska S.A. in international telephone services. The move would vindicate Era GSM and TELEe2, firms already providing VoIP services. (Rzeczpospolita, p. B3).