Iliad Italia switches on 5G in 27 cities with €10 offer
Emulating its strategy in France, the latest entrant to Italy’s 5G market undercuts its competitors with a €9.99 per month offer.
Emulating its strategy in France, the latest entrant to Italy’s 5G market undercuts its competitors with a €9.99 per month offer.
Italy’s antitrust authorities are keen to ensure that the planned creation of a new wholesale fibre network won’t harm competition.
BT has agreed to sell a couple of Italian businesses to TIM via a deal of undisclosed value, but that is unlikely to be a big money-spinner for the UK incumbent.
Fixed Wireless Access is one of the best hopes operators have of making money from their 5G investments, so there’s a strong incentive to claim to be the best at it.
Apple made a bunch of claims about the water resistance of some iPhones, but the Italian Antitrust Authority didn’t like them and has fined Apple €10 million accordingly.
The European Commission has given the green light to TIM’s FiberCop plan, which it says does not raise competition concerns.
Enel will look to build wholesale fibre networks in markets outside of Italy, according to its CEO, who also indicated that the sale of its domestic Open Fiber business could be just days away.
TIM and Tiscali have signed contracts governing their agreement to jointly invest in the FiberCorp network project.
TIM’s board of directors has approved the spin-off of the Italian telco’s data centres business into a new company that will start operations in 2021 and is on the look out for external investors.
Italian lawmakers are preparing the ground for another probe into Vivendi’s status as a shareholder of both TIM and Mediaset.
Huawei’s steady stream of European setbacks continues with a report that the Italian government has vetoed a 5G deal between the Chinese vendor and Fastweb.
TIM has awarded the first tender for last-mile fibre-optic cabling for its new FiberCorp unit to a quintet of domestic suppliers.
Last week the US secretary of State visited Italy to lobby for cooperation over 5G security and China wasn’t happy about it.
Italy and the US had a joint press conference in which the Italian Foreign Minister made it clear he’s willing to play ball on securing his country’s 5G networks.
Italy thinks it would be a really good idea to create a monopoly national fibre provider, but it looks like its overlords in Brussels don’t agree.
Nick Read reckons there’s not enough competition in Italy, but too much in Portugal and the Czech Republic, all countries in which Vodafone does business.
Italy’s national broadcaster Rai appears to be looking at in buying into the country’s single high-speed network, and there is interest from the private sector too.
Italian incumbent TIM is evidently still keen to prove mmWave spectrum is worth all that money.
As expected, Telecom Italia’s board has approved a plan to spin off its fixed access network and merge it with altnet Open Fiber.
TIM. The Italian incumbent will get its wish to control the country’s proposed single high-speed network, if it agrees to a plan the government is about to present to its board.
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